1st Edition
Learning Movements New Perspectives of Movement Education
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.
1. Introduction to New Perspectives of Movement Learning
Håkan Larsson
2. Metaphors of Movement Learning
Dean Barker, Gunn Nyberg and Heléne Bergentoft
3. Movement Learning in Educational Contexts
Håkan Larsson
4. Beyond Molecularization: Constructivist, Situated and Activity Theory Approaches to Movement Learning
David Kirk and Elise Houssin
5. A Phenomenological Perspective of Movement Learning
Øyvind Standal
6. A Phenomenographic Perspective of Movement Learning
Gunn Nyberg
7. Foucault’s Poststructuralist Approaches to Understanding Movement Learning
Pirkko Markula
8. A Transactional Understanding of Movement Learning
Joacim Andersson and Mikael Quennerstedt
9. Practising Movement
Kenneth Aggerholm
10. Symbolic Interactionism And Movement Learning
Dean Barker
11. Teaching and Learning Running Differently: A Phenomenographic Approach to Movement Education
Gunn Nyberg
12. Movement Learning and Pupils’ Artistic Expression Analysing Situated Artistic Relations in Physical Education
Joacim Andersson and Jonas Risberg
13. An Emotional Journey: The Significance of Aesthetic Experience for Motor Learning
Ninitha Maivorsdotter
14. Tangible tricks and transitions in skateboarding
Åsa Bäckström
15. The Ecstatic Pump and the Logic of Pain. Learning Processes and Embodiment in Fitness Culture
Jesper Andreasson and Kevin Holger Mogensen
16. Conclusion
Håkan Larsson
Biography
Håkan Larsson is a Professor of sports science, specialisation education at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Sweden
