Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education

by Hakan Larsson (Editor)

Overview

Contemporary ways of understanding human movements, specifically movement learning, are heavily dominated by individualistic, dualistic and mechanistic perspectives. These perspectives are individualistic in the sense that in research as well as in educational practice movements/movers are typically decontextualized, they are dualistic in the sense that the body is taken to be ‘inhabited’, even ‘governed,’ by a rational mind which is not itself a part of that body; and they are mechanistic in the sense that movements and movement learning can be ‘calculated’.

This approach has supported the dominance of a westernised and predominantly white, masculinised and heteronormative view of able bodies, embodiment and movements. Hence, it has contributed to marginalise not only other approaches and perspectives and individuals.

New research has evolved, including new approaches and these held perspectives have been challenged by social and culturally sensitive, holistic as well as pluralistic, and dynamic/organic perspectives of human movements and moving humans. Examples of such research can be found in disciplines such as; physical education and pedagogy, ethnography, philosophy, and sociology.

Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education provides the societal and epistemological background for these new approaches and will be essential in disseminating this knowledge to movement educators, academics and researchers as well as professionals within education, sports, health and fitness, dance, outdoor activities, etc., and that it will spearhead new and inclusive practices within these settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367696627
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Series:	Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Håkan Larsson is a Professor of sports science, specialisation education at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Sweden

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

About the Contributors xii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgements xxiii

1 Introduction to New Perspectives of Movement Learning Håkan Larsson 1

2 Metaphors of Movement Learning Dean Barker Gunn Nyberg Heléne Bergentoft 17

3 Movement Learning in Educational Contexts Håkan Larsson 31

4 Beyond Molecularization: Constructivist, Situated and Activity Theory Approaches to Movement Learning David Kirk Elise Houssin 46

5 A Phenomenological Perspective of Movement Learning Øyvind Førland Standal 61

6 A Phenomenographic Perspective of Movement Learning Gunn Nyberg 75

7 Foucault's Poststructuralist Approaches to understanding Movement Learning Pirkko Markula 90

8 A Transactional Understanding of Movement Learning Joacim Andersson Mikael Quennerstedt 103

9 Practising Movement Kenneth Aggerholm 118

10 Symbolic Interactionism and Movement Learning Dean Barker 133

11 Teaching and Learning Running Differently: A Phenomenographic Approach to Movement Education Gunn Nyberg 150

12 Movement Learning and Pupils' Artistic Expression: Analysing Situated Artistic Relations in Physical Education Joacim Andersson Jonas Risberg 165

13 An Emotional Journey: The Significance of Aesthetic Experience for Motor Learning Ninitha Maivorsdotter 186

14 Tangible Tricks and Transitions in Skateboarding Ása Bäckström 198

15 The Ecstatic Pump and the Logic of Pain: Learning Processes and Embodiment in Fitness Culture Jesper Andreasson Kevin Holger Mogensen 211

16 Conclusion Håkan Larsson 223

Index 237