Enskilment: an Ecological-Anthropological Worldview of Skill, Learning and Education in Sport

Sports Medicine - Open

Rob Gray¹  Carl T. Woods²  James Rudd³  Keith Davids⁴ 

[1] Human Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Santa Catalina Hall, Mesa, USA;Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia;Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK;Sport & Human Performance Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;

关键词: Social anthropology;    Ecological psychology;    Ecological dynamics;    Knowledge;    Self-regulation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40798-021-00326-6

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this paper is to explore a different, more relational worldview of skill, learning and education in sport. To do this, we turn to the work of social anthropologist, Tim Ingold, leaning on the notion of enskilment, which proposes that learning is inseparable from doing and place. From this worldview, what is learned is not an established body of knowledge, transmitted into the mind of a passive recipient from an authorised being, but is a progressively deepening embodied-embedded attentiveness, where an individual learns to self-regulate by becoming more responsive to people and environmental features by ‘looking, listening and feeling’. As we discuss, Ingold’s perspectives on enskilment are rooted in the etymological connotations of education—ex-ducere, which roughly means ‘to lead out’. In applying this notion to sport, we unpack three of its entangled components, taskscapes, guided attention, and wayfinding, detailing the implications of each for the growth of enskilled sports performers. To promote the translation of these ideas, in addition to encouraging their inquiry beyond the scope of what is discussed here, sporting examples are threaded throughout the paper.

【 授权许可】

CC BY