Nonlinear pedagogy in skill acquisition : an introduction / Jia Yi Chow, Keith Davids, Chris Button and Ian Renshaw.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Overview and Introduction to Skill Performance and Learning -- 2. (Re)Organising Movement System Degrees of Freedom to Achieve Task Goals -- 3. An Ecological Dynamics Rationale for a Nonlinear Pedagogy -- 4. Nonlinear Pedagogy: An Overview of Key Principles -- 5. The Role of Functional, Adaptive Variability in Promoting Individualised Learning -- 6. Specificity of Transfer and Representative Learning Design -- 7. Provision of Information to Stabilise Perception-Action Couplings -- 8 Manipulating Instructional Constraints to Encourage Exploratory Learning -- 9. Practice Task Organisation and Movement Variability -- 10. Relations between Nonlinear Pedagogy and Games-based Teaching Approaches -- 11. Why do We do what We do? Applications of a Nonlinear Pedagogy in Physical Education and Sport Contexts -- 12. The Motivational Impact of Nonlinear Pedagogy -- 13. Emotions of Learning in a Nonlinear Pedagogy Perspective.