Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education

Individualistic, dualistic, and mechanistic perspectives dominate contemporary approaches to human movements, such as movement learning. These perspectives support a Westernized and predominantly white, masculinized, and heteronormative view of able bodies, embodiment, and movements, marginalizing other approaches and individuals. New research has emerged, challenging these perspectives with social and culturally sensitive, holistic, pluralistic, and dynamic/organic perspectives of human movements and moving humans. Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education provides the societal and epistemological background for these new approaches and is essential for disseminating this knowledge to movement educators, academics, researchers, and professionals in education, sports, health, fitness, dance, and outdoor activities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Contemporary perspectives on human movements, particularly movement learning, are heavily influenced by individualistic, dualistic, and mechanistic viewpoints. These perspectives are individualistic in the sense that movements/movers are often decontextualized in research and educational practices, dualistic in the sense that the body is perceived as being 'inhabited' and 'governed' by a rational mind that is separate from the body itself, and mechanistic in the sense that movements and movement learning can be 'calculated.' This approach has perpetuated the dominance of a Westernized, predominantly white, masculinized, and heteronormative view of able bodies, embodiment, and movements. Consequently, it has marginalized not only other approaches and perspectives but also individuals.

New research has emerged, encompassing innovative approaches that challenge these held perspectives. These new perspectives on human movements and moving humans are socially and culturally sensitive, holistic, pluralistic, and dynamic/organic. Examples of such research can be found in disciplines such as physical education and pedagogy, ethnography, philosophy, and sociology.

Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education serves as a foundational framework for these new approaches and is crucial in disseminating this knowledge to movement educators, academics, researchers, and professionals across various fields, including education, sports, health and fitness, dance, outdoor activities, and more. By embracing these new and inclusive practices, we can foster a more equitable and inclusive society that recognizes the diverse and complex nature of human movements and the individuals who engage in them.

Weight: 516g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367356811