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Learning in sport : from life skills to existential learning (2021)

Ronkainen, N. J., Aggerholm, K., Ryba, T. V., & Allen-Collinson, J. (2021). Learning in sport : from life skills to existential learning. Sport Education and Society, 26(2), 214-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2020.1712655

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Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Ronkainen, Noora J.; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn

Lehti tai sarja: Sport Education and Society

ISSN: 1357-3322

eISSN: 1470-1243

Julkaisuvuosi: 2021

Volyymi: 26

Lehden numero: 2

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 214-227

Kustantaja: Routledge

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2020.1712655

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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67220

Tiivistelmä

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.

YSO-asiasanat: urheilijat; nuoret; informaali oppiminen; psyykkinen kehitys; sosiaalinen kehitys; identiteetti; elämäntaito

Vapaat asiasanat: positive youth development; athletes; discontinuity; informal learning; identity

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OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2021

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