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Dressage has been called the ability to get horses to dance. For the horse, everything depends on his athleticism, while for the rider, the skill involved is like playing a musical instrument. It takes physical ability, knowledge of the craft, and the capacity to imagine what can be made. The rider gives cues to the horse which it takes great balance and skill to make invisible. But it is the horse, with his natural sense of rhythm and grace, who emerges as the true craftsman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the contribution of transactional analysis to sports psychology. After looking at sports from the perspective of ego state theory, the author focuses on the relationship with the athlete and the work of mental coaching. The importance of contracting and implicit OKness is emphasized, and a case study is presented to illustrate how transactional analysis can be applied in working with athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explored how first year undergraduate nursing students learn in clinical placements as part of a program informed by Wenger's (1998) social theory of learning. Forty-nine written student narrative accounts of a learning experience were analysed and three triggers for learning were identified. The first trigger is that participation (or observation) of a task or procedure leads students into a complex, dramatic reading of nursing work. The second is that when students are personally (emotionally) confronted by the work, it presents a high challenge situation, recognized by students as a significant learning opportunity. The third trigger is encounters with different nurses assist students to construct an image of what they want to be as a nurse. These three triggers appear to align with Wenger's Communities of Practice constructs for identity, engagement, imagination, and alignment, and provides preliminary evidence supportive of the social theory of learning for nursing students on clinical placement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]