Learning in Sport: From Life Skills to Existential Learning

Autor/inn/en	Ronkainen, Noora J.; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
Titel	Learning in Sport: From Life Skills to Existential Learning
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 26 (2021) 2, S.214-227 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ronkainen, Noora J.) ORCID (Aggerholm, Kenneth) ORCID (Ryba, Tatiana V.) ORCID (Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2020.1712655
Schlagwörter	Athletics; Informal Education; Daily Living Skills; Adolescent Development; Learning Processes; Educational Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leichtathletik; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Alltagsfertigkeit; Learning process; Lernprozess; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie
Abstract	Youth sport is habitually promoted as an important context for learning that contributes to a person's broader development beyond sport-specific skills. A growing body of research in this area has operated within a life skills discourse that focuses on useful, positive and decontextualised skills in the production of successful and adaptive citizens. In this paper, we argue that the ideological discourse of life skills, underpinned by ideas about sport-based positive youth development, has unduly narrowed the research on learning in sport to only what is deemed functional, teachable, and economically productive. After considering the problems associated with the currently dominant life skills approach, we explore existential learning as an alternative perspective on conceptualising and studying learning in sport. An existential approach provides a non-instrumental theory of learning with an emphasis on discontinuity, relational self and 'becoming', opening an avenue for exploring various forms of informal learning under-explored in sport. We discuss the applications of this alternative approach for future research and practice in learning in youth sport. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01