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Using Teaching Personal Social Responsibility Pedagogy for the Social and Emotional Development of Junior Alpine Ski Athletes

Team Members

Associate Professor John Williams
Professor Barbara Pamphilon
Professor John Lyle
Dr Ian Renshaw
Dr Stuart Evans

Project Partners:
Leeds Beckett University
La Trobe University
Vail Resorts

This project aims to incorporate Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) into Alpine ski race sports programs for junior athletes. It aims to help coaches understand TPSR. Coaches are taught to focus on more than just ‘skills and drills’ in their programs and support the social and emotional wellbeing of junior athletes.

The team worked with four Alpine ski race coaches and 28 junior athletes (under 14 years of age) at an Australian mountain resort. Coaches were supported to incorporate TPSR in their existing training programs and to trial the approach with their athletes. The programs were evaluated, with areas of strengths and weaknesses identified for consideration in future programs.

The incorporation of TPSR in Alpine ski coaching focuses on highlighting the true value of sport education. By developing the core TPSR values of Respect, Caring, Self-direction, Effort and Transfer (to life outside of sport), this project contributes to improving the health and wellbeing of future generations.

Participants in another TPSR program that extends this project and at the same mountain resort, make a contribution to environmental sustainability and specifically in the areas of in-season food and drink wastage recycling and post-season resort clean up.

TPSR values support coaches, athletes and mountain resort staff to work together and develop values of team work, rather than focusing only on the competitive aspect of ski racing.

For further information on this project, please contact Associate Professor John Williams.