ARE SPORT SCIENTISTS DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING ATHLETES ? – DR PHIL KEARNEY.

PESS staff member Phil Kearney recently had a blog published by the Irish Sport & Exercise Sciences Association:

Phil discussed:

Why should sport scientists help develop athletes as critical thinkers?

Here are two reasons:

1. Today’s critical thinking athlete is less likely to be fooled by tomorrow’s spoofer.

2. Today’s critical thinking athlete is tomorrow’s critical thinking coach.

But that leads to more questions:

🏀 What do we mean by critical thinking?

🏐 How do we develop critical thinking?

You can read Phil’s article HERE

Dr. Phil Kearney is the Course Leader for the MSc Applied Sports Coaching at the University of Limerick. A Fellow of the Higher Education Authority, his teaching and research centres on the domain of skill acquisition, particularly as it relates to youth sport. A regular contributor to RTÉ Brainstorm, Phil is a member of the Gaelic Athletic Association’s Player & Coach Development Advisory Group, an Associate Editor for Perceptual and Motor Skills and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Motor Learning and Development. Phil is a co-founder of Movement and Skill Acquisition Ireland.

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