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February 03, 2009

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IDGBL - An illustration of education guidelines from handball

On Sunday, the French handball team became world champions. Yeeeeehaaaaa!!!
Beyond the joy and pride it gives to all their supporters (including myself Laughing), the interview of Claude Onesta, the French coach, highlights some very interesting aspects which are quite relevant to most learning situations.

 

 

 

 

The following are selected extracts from the interview:

 

Claude Onesta:

 

“I have been dreaming about managing a team which, all of a sudden, don't need me anymore. [….] Although I have won everything [European championship, Olympic games and World championship], it's what remains to be won tomorrow that interests me as it will be the opportunity to live a new adventure […] with the people around me”

 

Journalist:

 

“[….] Doesn't the big strength of this collective force lie in its adaptation abilities?”

 

Claude Onesta:

 

“We get this result when players are actors of their performances. When they obey strategies defined by others, they end up being in difficulty as soon as the strategy doesn't allow for solutions. Here, players are actors of their game, us (the staff), we accompany. But they are constantly in a fever of excitement about the definition of the project. That way, they have control over the elements. There's nothing worse than a player who's got the feeling not to control anything. They fail. As long as you feel you've got the solutions in your own hands, you organise them. Us, we supervise all that”

 



Several elements stand out in relation to our interest in education:

  • learning as an adventure (a metaphor which proved quite useful to many of us on another module)
  • learning as an ongoing, lifelong process
  • learning as a challenge
  • learning as a social activity
  • learners self-regulation
  • educators as facilitators



It's worth noting that these characteristics are manifest of an intrinsic form of motivation. Therefore, one of the most important challenges of educators is to foster genuine interest in the subject-matter as well as to promote and sustain learners' self-confidence and self-efficacy.

Bruning et al (1999) are a very useful resource for those willing to pursue these matters in further details.


 

 

References:

 

Bruning, R. H., G. J. Schraw and R. R. Ronning (1999). Beliefs about self. In Cognitive psychology and instruction. Upper Saddle River, N.J., Merrill.

 

MSN Sports Hand (2009). Onesta: “Tout le monde se dit merci”.
Retrieved: 3 February 2009. http://sport.fr.msn.com/HTML/Handball/breves2009/20090202_101446_onesta-tout-le-monde-se-dit-merci.html

Keywords: e-learning, game, IDGBL2009, motivation, social, sport

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