While research in sport pedagogy and research in the field of physical education continue to overlap,[8] sport pedagogy is now seen to be the overarching academic discipline, informing learning, teaching and instruction in a wide range of sport, physical activity and exercise contexts.[9] At the centre of the inquiry is the pedagogical encounter between the teacher/coach/instructor and the learner/participant.[2] In this, it is the purpose of sport pedagogy 'to support the needs of learners in sport, and other forms of physical activity, wherever and whenever they seek to learn through the life-course'.[10] To achieve this end, sport pedagogy researchers should be encouraged to engage in inter-disciplinary work, in order to transcend the respective academic silos that sometimes exist between the distinct sub-disciplines in sport science.[10]