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- Andersson, Joacim, PhD, 1978-, et al.
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A Transactional Understanding of Movement Learning
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In: Learning Movements. - New York : Routledge. - 9780367356811 - 9781003142775
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The chapter clarifies how a transactional approach, by providing a specific view of the relationship between bodies and environments, can inform movement learning analysis. By emphasising classical pragmatism’s central ideas of experience (radical empiricism) and learning (the process of inquiry) two transactional principles are identified and then discussed in relation to empirical research. Methodological challenges, such as how to deal with the individual and social as simultaneous and mutual, and how to handle learning as practical and embodied, are described through previous empirical research. In doing so, the chapter explains how movement have been explored in term of what stands fast for participants in movement, which gaps they experience when they move, and what it means to create relations between old and new experiences. Using concepts of stand fast, gap, and relation transactional informed empirical research has gained detailed descriptions of, for example, how pupils navigate spatial-temporal conditions through movement, establish and maintain habits, achieve stability in terms of cooperation, use aesthetic judgements to make sense of movement, accept or refrain from intergenerational touch and gain balance and manoeuvrability in dinghy sailing. Transactional models used in research can, furthermore, be used by practitioners in order to observe, understand and discuss ongoing movement learning in their own or others’ practices. For example, help learners to identify certain gaps, privilege specific standing fast moments and recognize when and which relations fulfil certain purposes.
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- Andersson, Joacim, 1978-, et al.
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A transactional way of analysing the learning of ‘tacit knowledge’
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In: Interchange. - : Springer. - 0826-4805 .- 1573-1790. ; 46:3, s. 271-287
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Methodological challenges point to a reconceptualization of ‘tacit knowledge’ to ‘tacit knowing’. The paper outlines the concept of ‘tacit knowing’ and explores the need for educational research to reformulate questions about tacit knowledge as a practical learning concern. Using John Dewey’s transactional perspective on learning ‘tacit knowing’ is analysed as embodiment of knowledge. An approach of ‘body pedagogics’ is used to frame this analysis. From a perspective of ‘body pedagogics’ our bodily being and the actions we perform as such beings cannot be reduced to neither cultural nor subjective experience. Rather, we are in a continuing educating process when it comes to our bodies (Shilling and Mellor 2007, p. 533). On the background of this a transactional model of learning is developed that recognises educative bodily experiences in relation to ‘tacit knowing’. A sailing vignette is used to show that ‘tacit knowing’ becomes visible in a sailor’s embodied inquiry of which situated epistemic relations it is necessary to embody to acquire a certain ‘body technique’. Empirical focus lies on how dinghy sailors grow into purposeful ‘body techniques’ (Mauss, Econ Soc 2(1):70–88, 1973) by taking the measure of their ongoing, continuous experience while coordinating their movements with the environment. The analysis show how understandings and bodily skills are simultaneously used in the educational situation where the dinghy sailor has to handle both the environment and various instructions given by the trainer. Thus, ‘tacit knowing’ in dinghy sailing is not merely a collection of motor skills, but rather the grasping, in the practical embodied way, of physical principles.
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- Andersson, Joacim, et al.
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Embodying Meaning : Qualities, Feelings, Selective Attention, and Habits
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In: Quest (National Association for Physical Education in Higher Education). - : Informa UK Limited. - 0033-6297 .- 1543-2750. ; 68:2, s. 207-222
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recently, there has been increasing pedagogical interest in the qualities and characteristics of movement. This article examines these qualities and characteristics in terms of John Dewey's distinction between abstract, linguistic significant meanings and concrete, embodied imminent meanings. Imminent meanings are comprised of intuitive qualities, feelings, selective attention, and habits. We examine each of these in turn in hopes of better understanding the learning of "body techniques" while illuminating some important aspects of body pedagogics.
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- Andersson, Joacim, PhD, 1978-, et al.
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Embodying Teaching : A Body Pedagogic Study of a Teacher’s Movement Rhythm in the ‘Sloyd’ Classroom
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In: Interchange. - : Springer. - 0826-4805 .- 1573-1790. ; 49:2, s. 179-204
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article draws on body pedagogics and considers that teaching and learning experiences and outcomes are directly related to the different characteristics of movement behaviour. In this article movement behaviour specifically centres on a sloyd (handicraft education) teacher’s walk through the classroom. The analysis illuminate the specific teaching use of the body as a spatial, temporal and situational movement rhythm in the classroom and how teachers and pupils tune into educational discourses by means of different body techniques. A wireless GoPro camera was attached to the teacher’s chest in order to gain detailed view of pupil–teacher–body–material–tool encounters and a specific visual perspective of the sloyd teacher’s walk. During a 2.5 years fieldwork, 25 wood–metal sloyd lessons were observed and recorded (circa 50 h of video). The study is informed by Dewey’s embodied theory of learning and focus the alternation between active and passive phases in the stream of experience. From such Deweyan perspective the rhythm of an activity for organising experience, is fundamental to the creation of intelligent moving habits. The results show the body pedagogic experiences, outcomes and means by highlighting the teacher’s (a) spatial path by describing mutual relationships between the material arrangement of the classroom, the teacher’s bodily movements and the pupils’ participation in the lesson, (b) temporal pace by his ‘flights and perchings’ through the lessons and how he moves from pupil to pupil and assignment to assignment, (c) specific pacts by describing body techniques and situated teacher–pupil encounters that terminate in an agreement about how to proceed.
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- Andersson, Joacim, PhD, 1978-, et al.
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Empirical Philosophical Investigations in Education and Embodied Experience
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Chapter 1 This chapter explores some of the most interesting intersections between the philosophy of John Dewey and the later Ludwig Wittgenstein. Practical epistemological analysis (PEA), Situated Epistemic Relations (SER), and Situated Artistic Relations (SAR) examine learning primarily as a sociolinguistic practice. Since it is a sociolinguistic practice, much of both the product and the process of learning are plainly visible to sophisticated methodological observation. This chapter emphasizes the primacy of practice in comprehending linguistic meaning (i.e., forms of life, language-games, meaning as use, etc.), the rejection of a private language, antifoundationalism, and epistemological contextualism, action, and antirepresentationalism. It establishes the philosophical framework for our analytical method developed in Chap. 3 and assumed in Chap. 4 .
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- Andersson, Joacim, PhD, 1978-, et al.
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I am sailing : towards a transactional analysis of 'body techniques'
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In: Sport, Education and Society. - Abingdon, England : Routledge. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; 20:6, s. 722-740
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In recent years there has been a growing interest in questions related to embodiment and learning. Within the field of ‘body pedagogics’ great efforts have been made to develop theory and methodology that can deal with the corporeal aspects of experience and knowledge without adopting any form of dualistic conceptions of body/mind and organism/environment. This article connects to this body of research. The purpose is to first present a synthesis of James’ radical empiricism, Dewey’s transactional understanding of experience and learning and Marcel Mauss’ concept of ‘body techniques’ and the notion of education embedded in it. Against the background of this theoretical development, and with a Transactional Model of Analyzing Bodying (TMAB), we then show how we can analytically come to terms with different dualistic problems that research into ‘body pedagogics’ has to deal with. We use an empirical example of dinghy sailing to create knowledge about what we learn when learning embodied knowledge, and how this learning takes place. We argue that experience is an important concept for understanding the acting knowing human being, describing how experience is organized and developed and outlining how this organization can be understood as learning. We hold that situations where someone learns to embody certain knowledge are cases of overt actions, in which we can see what kinds of relations are created and how these relations become meaningful for further action.
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- Andersson, Joacim, 1978-, et al.
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I am sailing : towards a transactional analysis of 'body techniques'
- 2013
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In: Sport, Education and Society. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In recent years there has been a growing interest in questions related to embodiment and learning.Within the field of ‘body pedagogics’ great efforts have been made to develop theory andmethodology that can deal with the corporeal aspects of experience and knowledge withoutadopting any form of dualistic conceptions of body/mind and organism/environment. This articleconnects to this body of research. The purpose is to first present a synthesis of James’ radicalempiricism, Dewey’s transactional understanding of experience and learning and Marcel Mauss’concept of ‘body techniques’ and the notion of education embedded in it. Against the backgroundof this theoretical development, and with a Transactional Model of Analyzing Bodying (TMAB),we then show how we can analytically come to terms with different dualistic problems that researchinto ‘body pedagogics’ has to deal with. We use an empirical example of dinghy sailing to createknowledge about what we learn when learning embodied knowledge, and how this learning takesplace. We argue that experience is an important concept for understanding the acting knowinghuman being, describing how experience is organized and developed and outlining how thisorganization can be understood as learning. We hold that situations where someone learns toembody certain knowledge are cases of overt actions, in which we can see what kinds of relationsare created and how these relations become meaningful for further action.
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