Progressão
Progressão is a book, a podcast, and a long-term thinking project focused on football, learning, and skilful human behaviour. Our work approaches football from a complex, holistic, and ecological perspective, where players and all football actors are understood as living beings always in correspondence with their environment.
Progressão
#181 DISCUSSÃO MUNDO: Duarte Araújo – ecological dynamics and skill learning in football
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Welcome to Progressão.
As Progressão now continues fully in English, we are revisiting some of our earlier Discussão Mundo conversations — episodes that were especially meaningful, widely listened to, and that still feel highly relevant today. This episode is one of those.
Here, we speak with Professor Duarte Araújo, Director of the Laboratory of Expertise in Sport at the University of Lisbon and one of the key voices in ecological dynamics and complex systems in sport.
In this conversation, we explore complex systems thinking, the origins and development of Ecological dynamics, the work of James Gibson, and what these ideas mean for skill learning and coaching — especially in football.
Many of the ideas that shape Progressão today have been influenced by Professor Duarte’s work and by the broader Ecological dynamics community. That is why this episode still feels particularly important.
We are very happy to share this conversation again. At the same time, new Discussão episodes are on the way, with fresh conversations that continue to explore football, skill, and human behaviour from a complex and relational perspective.
For now, we welcome Professor Duarte Araújo.
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