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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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PART I What is human play? A philosophical issue |
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1 Play as a phenomenon and a value |
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1.1 Definability of human play: The Wittgensteinian obstacle |
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1.2 Definition of human play |
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1.3 Why is play good? The etiological notion |
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1.4 Pedagogical ramifications |
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2 Play, game, and sport as a `tricky triad' in the philosophy of sport |
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2.2 Do professional team sports still remain play? |
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2.3 Pedagogical ramifications |
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PART II How humans play: a psychological issue |
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3 Cognition, behaviour, and activity in games playing through a complexity prism |
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3.1 Human behaviour versus activity: theoretical juxtaposition |
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3.2 Interpretations of games playing through a complexity paradigm |
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3.3 Dialectical complexity approach to games playing |
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3.4 Pedagogical ramifications |
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4 Psychology of play as mental escape |
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4-1 Mental escape through a complexity paradigm |
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4.2 Escape to playing of `other games' |
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4-3 Pedagogical ramifications |
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PART III How human culture plays games: a social-anthropological and historical issue |
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5 From ritual to sport show |
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5.1 Play and games in the past as a sacral ritual versus pastime |
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5.2 Games playing as a culture: the example of cricket and British colonialism |
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5.3 Team sports as a professional sport and a show |
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5.4 Pedagogical ramifications |
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6 From games playing to games teaching |
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6.1 Classification of games and team sports |
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6.2 Functionalist approach to games playing |
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6.3 The `flood' of new games and team sports in the I9th-20th centuries |
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6.4 Games and team sports in various national systems of 20th-century physical education |
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6.5 Pedagogical ramifications |
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PART IV How to teach and coach games: the pedagogical issue |
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7 Complexity paradigm in games teaching and coaching |
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7.1 Complexity approach to the new pedagogics |
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7.2 Complexity pedagogics de facto |
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7.3 Complexity pedagogics de jure |
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8 The `8 and 4' approach to games teaching and coaching (I): Main principles |
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9 The `8 and 4' approach to games teaching and coaching (II): Basic concepts |
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9.1 `Desires' and `games' trees through the levels of the `inverted pyramid' |
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9.2 `SkAl tree' on all three levels of the `inverted pyramid' |
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Conclusion |
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Index |
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