Skill Transmission, Sport and Tacit Knowledge: A Sociological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367345075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str.

Honorata Jakubowska

Opis

Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an important role. This is the first sociological study of the transmission of skills through tacit knowledge in sport.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Embodied Knowledge and the Limits of its Verbalisation  2. Exploring the Process of Embodied Sports Knowledge Transmission  3. Methodology for Studying Tacit Knowledge in the Field of Sports  4. Transmission of Tacit Knowledge  5. Limits of Tacit Knowledge Transmission and of its Sociological Exploration  Conclusion  Appendix A  Appendix B

O autorze

Honorata Jakubowska works as a professor in the Institute of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her main research areas are the sociology of the body and embodiment, the sociology of sport, and gender studies. She is the author of two award-winning monographs in Polish and the co-editor of the Sociology of Sport Reader, and has written 60 articles and book chapters. She is the principal investigator of two research projects financed by the Polish National Science Centre.