| CCE: EW Barker Professorship Public Lecture Series |
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9 January 2009
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Speaker
Dr. Jean Côté is Professor and Director in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University at Kingston (Canada). His research interests are in the areas of children in sport, coaching, positive youth development, and sport expertise. He has published more than 100 refereed papers on a variety of youth sport and sport psychology topics and over 200 scientific presentations. Dr. Côté is on, or has been on, the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, The Sport Psychologist, Revue International des Sciences du Sport et de l'Education Physique, and Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. He is editor of the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
Dr. Côté holds cross appointments as a visiting professor at the Carnegie Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan in the UK and in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He has been invited to present his research in the United States, France, Malaysia, Brazil, Greece, Australia, Ireland, England, Finland, Israel, Japan, Qatar, and Taiwan. He has delivered 22 keynote addresses at major national and international conferences. His most significant keynote addresses were delivered at the AIESEP 2008 World Congress in Japan, the 13th Commonwhealth International Sport Conference in Australia (CISC, 2006), The European Launch of the European Year of Education through Sport in Ireland (EYES, 2004), and The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity in Savannah, USA (NASPSPA, 2003). He enjoys spending time with his wife and three children ages 11, 13, and 15. He also likes to play ice hockey, tennis, golf, and racquetball.
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| Public Lecture 1 - The Building Blocks of Performance, Participation, & Personal Development in Sport |
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Date: 18 February 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 7pm (Tea Reception will be served at 6.30pm)
Venue: Lecture Theatre 12, National Institute of Education (NIE), 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616
Fee: Free
Organiser: NIE
To Register, please download the Registration Form, and submit the completed form to Ms. Jennie Chiong via email: jennie_chiong@ssc.gov.sg or Fax: 6346 1842.
Closing Date for Registration: 04 February 2009 or when the participation reaches the maximum capacity, whichever is earlier.
Synopsis
Youth participation in sport has the potential to accomplish three important objectives in children's development: improving health benefits, personal development, and athletic performance. Because these objectives are so different, youth sport activities are often structured to meet only one objective independently of the other two. However, by structuring youth sport activities and programs through the use of common building blocks that meet the needs of all young people, we can achieve all three objectives and reap the benefits associated with youth sport participation. This talk will focus on a series of studies that have examined the optimal developmental activities and environmental conditions that lead to continued health, personal development, and athletic performance for youth in sport.
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| Public Lecture 2 - What is Coaching Expertise and How is it Developed |
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Date: 24 February 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 7pm (Tea Reception will be served at 6.30pm)
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, ITE College East, 10 Simei Avenue, Singapore 486047
Fee: Free
Organiser: NIE
To Register, please download the Registration Form, and submit the completed form to Ms. Jennie Chiong via email: jennie_chiong@ssc.gov.sg or Fax: 6346 1842.
Closing Date for Registration: 04 February 2009 or when the participation reaches the maximum capacity, whichever is earlier.
Synopsis
It is important to consider coaches as one of the most important assets of an overall sporting system. If coaches are consistently able to improve children's competence, confidence, connection, and character through sport, they are making an enormous impact on the development of sport and society. In order to improve coaching education programs and provide athletes and sport participants with optimal sport environments, sport researchers must endeavor to empirically answer two questions: What is coaching expertise, and how is coaching expertise developed? Based on the extensive literature on coaching and athletes' development, this presentation will offer a definition of coaching expertise and present studies that trace the development of selected coaches
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| Public Lecture 3 - More Than a Game: Positive Youth Development Through Sport |
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Date: 4 March 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 10.30 am
Venue: AVA Theatre, Singapore Sports School, 1 Champions Way, Singapore 737913
Fee: Free
Organiser: NIE
To Register, please download the Registration Form, and submit the completed form to Ms. Jennie Chiong via email: jennie_chiong@ssc.gov.sg or Fax: 6346 1842.
Closing Date for Registration: 04 February 2009 or when the participation reaches the maximum capacity, whichever is earlier.
Synopsis
This presentation focuses on the potential of youth sport programs to foster positive development, while decreasing the risk of problem behaviours in children and adolescents. Youth sport programs can assure positive outcomes through developmentally appropriate designs and supportive child-adult (parent/coach) relationships. Sport programs should be built on appropriate developmental assets and environmental features that are known to produce positive growth. This presentation uses an ecological framework to highlight the important roles of policy makers, sport organizations, coaches, and parents, in fostering positive youth development in sport.
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