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Ways of knowing in ways of moving. A study of the meaning of capability to move

Publicerad:2014-04-17
Uppdaterad:2017-12-19

I sin studie har Gunn Nyberg undersökt vad rörelseförmåga kan innebära, samt identifierat, specificerat och beskrivit rörelseförmåga i termer av vad ”man kan” när man kan röra sig på olika sätt.

Författare

Gunn Nyberg

Handledare

Håkan Larsson, professor, Gymnastik och idrottshögskolan (GIH). Ingrid Carlgren, professor, Stockholms universitet

Opponent

David Kirk, professor, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Disputerat vid

Stockholms universitet

Disputationsdag

2014-05-09

Titel (eng)

Ways of knowing in ways of moving. A study of the meaning of capability to move

Institution

Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusstudier

Ways of knowing in ways of moving. A study of the meaning of capability to move

The overall aim of this thesis has been to investigate the meaning of the capability to move in order to identify and describe this capability from the perspective of the one who moves in relation to specific movements. It has been my ambition to develop ways to explicate, and thereby open up for discussion, what might form an educational goal in the context of movements and movement activities in the school subject of physical education and health (PEH).

In this study I have used a practical epistemological perspective on capability to move, a perspective that challenges the traditional distinction between mental and physical skills as well as between theoretical and practical knowledge. Movement actions, or ways of moving, are seen as expressions of knowing.

In order to explore an understanding of the knowing involved in specific ways of moving, observations of actors’ ways of moving and their own experiences of moving were brought together. Informants from three different arenas took part: from PEH in upper secondary school, from athletics and from free-skiing.

The results of the analyses suggest it is possible to describe practitioners’ developed knowing as a number of specific ways of knowing that are in turn related to specific ways of moving. Examples of such specific ways of moving may be discerning and modifying one’s own rotational velocity and navigating one’s (bodily) awareness. Additionally, exploring learners’ pre-knowing of a movement ‘as something’ may be fruitful when planning the teaching and learning of capability to move. I have suggested that these specific ways of knowing might be regarded as educational goals in PEH.

In conducting this study, I have also had the ambition to contribute to the ongoing discussion of what ‘ability’ in the PEH context might mean. In considering specific ways of knowing in moving, the implicit and taken-for-granted meaning of ‘standards of excellence’ and ‘sports ability’can be discussed, and challenged.

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