Researchers, coaches, teachers, and rehabilitation specialists will welcome a new paradigm for incorporating more empowerment and decision-making responsibilities into learning motor skills with Ecological Task Analysis and Movement. This book presents the Ecological Task Analysis (ETA) model, which offers strategies for replacing authoritarian practices by promoting student choice and an empowerment approach to learning. The text not only helps researchers design methodologically sound studies to test ETA principles, but it also shows practitioners how to apply these principles in coaching, teaching, or therapy. This ground-breaking book honors and advances an approach to understanding human movement developed in the 1990s by Allen Burton and Walter Davis, and this book is dedicated to Burton’s memory.-.
Part I. Strengthening the Foundation of Ecological Task Analysis / Geoffrey D. Broadhead, PhD -- Chapter 1. Task Constraints and Movement Organization: A Common Language / Karl M. Newell, PhD; and Kimberlee Jordan, PhD -- Chapter 2. Functional Role of Variability in Movement Coordination and Disability / Richard E.A. Van Emmerik, PhD -- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing Choice as Central to the ETA Applied Model: Broadening the Vision / Walter E. Davis, PhD; and Joyce Strand, PhD -- Chapter 4. Perception-Action Judgments in Children With Learning Disabilities / Jill Whitall, PhD; Sarita Sanghvi, MPT; and Nancy Getchell, PhD -- Chapter 5. Manipulating a Control Parameter in Overhand Throwing / Dan Southard, PhD -- Part II. Enhancing Instruction Using Ecological Task Analysis / Geoffrey D. Broadhead, PhD -- Chapter 6. Empowerment in Coaching / Lynn Kidman, PhD; and Walter E. Davis, PhD -- Chapter 7. Enhancing Responsible Student Decision Making in Physical Activity / Linda M. Carson, EdD; Sean M. Bulger, EdD; and J. Scott Townsend, EdD -- Chapter 8. Ecological Task Analysis in Games Teaching: Tactical Games Model / Steve Mitchell, PhD; and Judy Oslin, PhD -- Chapter 9. Systematic Ecological Modification Approach to Skill Acquisition in Adapted Physical Activity / Yeshayahu Hutzler, PhD -- Chapter 10. Providing Decision-Making Opportunities for Learners With Disabilities / Jane Taylor, PhD; Donna L. Goodwin, PhD; and Henrieẗte Groeneveld, PhD -- Chapter 11. Using Ecological Task Analysis in Physiotherapy / Gerald Mullally, MSc; and Mary Mullally, DipPhysio -- Chapter 12. Ecological Approach to the Care of Persons With Neurological Disabilities / Adri Vermeer, PhD -- Chapter 13. Interface of the KB and ETA Approaches / A.E. Wall, PhD; Greg Reid, PhD; and William J. Harvey, PhD