Learning Movements New Perspectives of Movement Education | Sport & Leisure

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Contemporary ways of understanding human movements specifically movement learning are heavily dominated by individualistic dualistic and mechanistic perspectives. These perspectives are individualistic in the sense that in research as well as in educational practice movements/movers are typically decontextualized they are dualistic in the sense that the body is taken to be ‘inhabited’ even ‘governed ’ by a rational mind which is not itself a part of that body; and they are mechanistic in the sense that movements and movement learning can be ‘calculated’. This approach has supported the dominance of a westernised and predominantly white masculinised and heteronormative view of able bodies em…