The Future of Sport Philosophy in Higher Education Kinesiology

Hopsicker, Peter M.; Hochstetler, Douglas

doi:10.1080/00336297.2016.1181556

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“…In this regard, the philosophy of sport could also benefit from paying renewed and systematic attention to issues related to the broader social, political, ideological, and economic context in which sport and physical activity are organized and practiced. This highlights a claim made by Hopsicker and Hochstetler (2016), that "there is no indication that the philosophic examination of sport and physical activity is needed less today than at any point in its history"; if anything, "evidence from both inside and outside of the academy suggests otherwise" (p. 247). This resonates with Park's (1981) conclusion in her chapter for Brooks's anthology.…”

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“…What has been explained so far in this section, but more precisely in the whole article, leaves us with a significant question: what does the future of the philosophy of sport look like? Hopsicker and Hochstetler (2016) addressed this question in a recent article. After reviewing the status of the philosophy of sport, they analyzed past prognoses offered by various scholars, including ourselves.…”

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Challenges, Achievements, and Uncertainties: The Philosophy of Sport Since the 1980s

Kretchmar¹,

Torres²

2021

Kinesiology Review

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The philosophy of sport has flourished in some ways and struggled in others since the publication of George Brooks’s anthology Perspectives on the Academic Discipline of Physical Education: A Tribute to G. Lawrence Rarick in 1981. In this article, the authors trace challenges faced by the philosophy of sport, discuss trends and hot topics, analyze opportunities for integrations with other subdisciplines, and speculate on the current issues in and the future of the philosophy of sport. While they conclude that the philosophy of sport’s prospect within kinesiology is uncertain and that it has work to do, they also conclude that this subdiscipline is uniquely positioned to provide kinesiology with the clarity and unity of purpose it needs.

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Section: Responding To the Changing Nature Of Global Sport And Physical Activitymentioning

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Section: Current Issues In and Future Directions For The Philosophy Of Sportmentioning

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Challenges, Achievements, and Uncertainties: The Philosophy of Sport Since the 1980s

Kretchmar¹,

Torres²

2021

Kinesiology Review

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“…Scholars argue that the field of PE and sport pedagogy need broader concepts of moving capabilities and learning (e.g. Hopsicker and Hochstetler 2016;Kretchmar 2000Kretchmar , 2017Tinning 2009) as well as projects that on the base of such concepts can carry out empirical studies in novel ways (Shilling 2018;Allen-Collinson 2009;Brown and Payne 2009). To some degree, empirical studies that focus on assessment (Lloyd 2015), discourse (Larsson and Nyberg 2017) and conception (Svennberg 2017;Backman and Larsson 2016) have challenged certain views of movement and learning and how we understand the classroom practice of PE teachers.…”

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The walking rhythm of physical education teaching: an in-path analysis

Andersson

Risberg

2019

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

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Background: While studies of teaching frequently preserve an interest in teacher-pupil encounters that take place in certain spots, this article shows how teachers' can be understood as in-path instructors, which is significant for student-based learning. This complements studies that have mainly focused on teachers instructional work taking place at certain spots. Purpose: The purpose is to describe how a PE teacher's rhythmic labouring of the diverse settings in the gym creates a learning environment. By examining emplacement (spatial) and empacement (temporal) as important aspects of how learning environments are constituted, this article contributes a framework for studying and analysing a teacher's work from a moving vantage point. Conclusions: Based on a video ethnographic approach and using a wearable camera attached to the teacher's chest, the analysis of a station-wise lesson show how the teacher frequently covers a large part of the room and creates a web of educational challenges and possibilities. These brief encounters are identified as important tools that support each pupil's rhythm and engagement in the learning activities and maintain the corporate rhythm of a class. Furthermore, by analysing the teacher's temporal and spatial walking technique, which helps the pupils to transit between and accomplish practical exercises, the article highlights how the teacher's ability to support pupils' progression partly builds on a regional knowledge that is cultivated by the array of encounters.

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“…Despite the variety of arguments and different problematisations, the question at the heart of each article was how to save the discipline. Hopsicker and Hochstetler (2016), for example, problematised the marginalisation of philosophy as a discipline in the larger field of sport sciences (Kinesiology) and argued for sport philosophy sub-discipline to be revamped and evolve along with sport sciences itself, taking a more central role within the discipline of sport sciences. They also commented on the word 'sport', drawing attention to its limitations as a concept within the discipline as a whole.…”

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“…They also commented on the word 'sport', drawing attention to its limitations as a concept within the discipline as a whole. They, however, conceded that a name change might be a step in the wrong direction which can jeopardise the existence of the whole discipline (Hopsicker & Hochstetler, 2016). In the same issue, Block (2016) delineated several critical matters facing higher education as a whole, namely corporatisation of universities, risk to academic freedom and compromised intellectual integrity.…”

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Decolonial re-existence and sports: the stories of Afghan youth in Sweden

Mashreghi¹

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In the context of sports and migration, research within policy-driven themes (i.e., integration) have consistently flattened out the migrants’ experiences, meanings and understandings of sports and physical activity to make sense for and from Euro-centric perspectives and framings. Thus, muting other relevant, alternative and already existing ways of living sports and physical activity. Critical sports studies, on the other hand, have demonstrated that sports (and physical activity) remain a contested domain where various human experiences are negotiated and remade along the intersecting lines of class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, legal status and (dis)ability. The aim in this study has been to work within a decolonial framework to demonstrate how migrant youth in Sweden navigate, experience, challenge and generate knowledge in relation to physical activity and sports. Doing decolonial research in sports studies means delinking from Eurocentric thought and epistemology in order to uncover alternative forms of physical culture and practice that generate different meanings to that of the (Western) hegemonic discourse. To do this, we, the youth and I, have worked and researched together within the framework of participatory art-based action research and our shared Khorasani epistemology. This means that the coresearchers have been active participants in generating research material, analysing the material and disseminating the generated knowledge. Grounded in Indigenous, borderland, Chicana and Black feminist knowldeges as well decolonial thought, this thesis contributes both theoretically and methodologically to the field of sport and exercise in relation to young asylum seekers and migration research. The participatory analysis demonstrates that for the Afghan youth in this study sport and physical activity was not a distinct entity, rather it was intertwined with various aspects of their lives, such as their experiences of child labour, pleasures, hopes for the future, leisure, social and mental aspects, and migration experiences. Furthermore, the youth revealed that despite various forms of oppression, trauma and hardship, they constantly returned, or rather, reclaimed life and future in their acts of self-reflection, friendship, love and hope within the context of sport and life. They, thus, moved beyond the mere resistance of the precarities in their lives to bring about a re-existence. The findings of this thesis also highlight the affordances and limitations of participatory methods, art-based research and decolonising work. Although the participatory methods grounded in the epistemology of the youth (and myself), allowed us to reclaim and tell our stories in our ways, they fell short in making lasting systemic transformations. These limitations also give rise to new questions and possibilities for future research in relation to how change and transformation are defined and researched; and whether these definitions are somewhat limiting and influenced by the colonial rhetoric of salvation underlining participatory action research basic principles of empowerment and critical consciousness.

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The Future of Sport Philosophy in Higher Education Kinesiology

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Challenges, Achievements, and Uncertainties: The Philosophy of Sport Since the 1980s

Challenges, Achievements, and Uncertainties: The Philosophy of Sport Since the 1980s

The walking rhythm of physical education teaching: an in-path analysis

Decolonial re-existence and sports: the stories of Afghan youth in Sweden

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