Harold Washington College Kinesiology Learning Discussion Questions
Can you help me understand this Kinesiology question?
Read chapter 5 before answering this discussion.
Speculate as to why many practitioners (teachers or coaches) incorporate strategies that focus a beginner learner’s attention on the feelings associated with a movement in addition to the visual. Why would they use both?
A popular method of teaching a youngster how to swing a bat is to stand next to him/her and manually guide the batter through the movements. This technique, appropriately termed manual guidance, is also frequently used in a therapeutic setting. The idea of manual guidance is to move the learner through the desired pattern or range of motion so that he/she can experience the feeling associated with it. This technique, however, presents an inherent problem. Speculate as to what that problem might be. Try the strategy yourself prior to formulating your response. Based on your response, what conditions might you adhere to when employing this strategy? (Coker, 2018, p. 123)
