- Title
- Mushin : learning in technique-intensive sports as a process of uniting mind and body through complex learning theory
- Creator
- Light, Richard; Kentel, Jeanne
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/89583
- Identifier
- vital:9295
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2013.868873
- Identifier
- ISSN:1740-8989
- Abstract
- Background: Interest in the use of learning theory to inform sport and physical-education pedagogy over the past decade beyond games and team sports has been limited. Purpose: Following on from recent interest within the literature in Eastern philosophic traditions, this article draws on the Japanese concept of mushin and complex learning theory (CLT) to propose a CLT-informed pedagogy for coaching the 'technique-intensive' sports of track running and swimming. Method: This article grounds theoretical discussion about learning in specific examples of practice to establish a dialectic relationship between theory and practice. The suggestions we make draw on first hand teaching/coaching experiences and CLT as a broad theoretical framework within which we draw on Eastern concepts of learning expressed in the Japanese concept of mushin as a state in which mind and body are united. Conclusion: The pedagogy we suggest challenges a dualistic view of theory and teaching and the mind/body binary that has long dominated physical education teaching and sport coaching. It offers a means of recognizing and accounting for the body in learning and of offering positive pedagogy for teaching technique-intensive sports. © 2013 Association for Physical Education.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Vol. 20, no. 4 (2015), p. 381-396
- Rights
- Copyright © 2013 Association for Physical Education
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Complex learning theory; Mind-body unity; Mushin; Technique-intensive sport
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