- Title
- Opening up learning theory to social theory in research on sport and physical education through a focus on practice
- Creator
- Light, Richard
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/33127
- Identifier
- vital:4643
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2010.535197
- Identifier
- ISSN:1740-8989
- Abstract
- Background: Research on pedagogy in physical education and sport has increasingly been informed by contemporary learning theory with the socio-cultural perspective being prominent. Over a similar period research on the social dimensions of physical education and youth sport has drawn on a range of social theory yet there has been little systematic integration of them. Purpose: This article identifies the ways in which learning theory can be opened up to some social theory in research on learning and pedagogy in physical education and sport. It provides a specific example of how this can be achieved through integrating the conceptual tools of Bourdieu with those of Lave and Wenger for research on learning in physical education and youth sport. Findings: This article identifies a complementary relationship between the socio-cultural learning theory of Lave and Wenger and the social theory of Bourdieu. It suggests that integrating Bourdieu's work with that of Lave and Wenger provides for a stronger focus on the body and corporeal learning in and through sport and physical education. © 2011 Copyright Association for Physical Education.
- Relation
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Vol. 16, no. 4 (2011), p. 369-382
- Rights
- Copyright Association for Physical Education.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Learning theory; Physical education; Social theory; Sport practice
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