Thinking through Making and Doing: Sport Science as an Art of Inquiry

Autor/inn/en	Woods, Carl T.; Davids, Keith
Titel	Thinking through Making and Doing: Sport Science as an Art of Inquiry
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 28 (2023) 5, S.579-593 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Woods, Carl T.) ORCID (Davids, Keith)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2022.2054792
Schlagwörter	Athletics; Physical Education; Inquiry; Scientific Methodology; Performance; Thinking Skills; Active Learning; Epistemology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leichtathletik; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Achievement; Leistung; Denkfähigkeit; Aktives Lernen; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	How best to summarise the professional work of sport scientists? What if we were to view them as artisans? As enskiled crafts-persons who think "through" and "with" their materials? What implications would this idea have for how we take up with research and ensuing scientific methods? Here, we explore these philosophical questions -- of applied relevance -- through Ingold's process of making. From this perspective, skilled artisans like potters, basket-makers and sport scientists, "think through making and doing," as opposed to "make and do through thinking." Where the latter imposes form onto matter by way of conceptualisation, the former goes along with materials in active participation, corresponding with what such things have to say with a skilled attentiveness and selective responsiveness. We argue that the implications of these propositions for research in sport science are profound; encouraging a progression from the traditional hypothetico-deductive theory of scientific method ("make and do through thinking"), towards an art of inquiry ("think through making and doing"). In the former, phenomena are studied "about," (re)producing categorical (sub-)disciplinary knowledge by way of vertical integration, while in the latter, phenomena are studied "with," growing storied knowledge of by way "of" correspondence. These arguments are not to be construed as a call for more 'qualitative research' within the sport sciences, but rather to underline the value of situating "participant observation" at the core of one's inquiry. Through a prologue and epilogue, we exemplify our arguments in the very process of this paper's becoming -- detailing the careful attentiveness and selective responsiveness to the various invitations to write, emergent while "thinking through making and doing." (As Provided).
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