Learning and Being in Sport: A Phenomenological Investigation
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Project description
Although sport is habitually promoted as an important context for positive youth development and informal learning, we still have little knowledge on how this learning occurs and how it is shaped by the learner’s identity, values, and socio-cultural situatedness.
In Learn2 project, we explore existential learning in sport. We draw on an existential perspective on learning as insight arising from discontinuity and use it as a guiding framework to conduct empirical research into talented athletes’ lived experiences of learning in the Finnish context.
The project is an extension of the "Winning in the long run" project.
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Research goals
- To explore the phenomenology of learning in sport within student-athletes’ lived experiences.
- To explore gendered patterns of meaning in learning and development in and through sport.
- To create knowledge that will form a theoretical basis for future research and inform policy on validating informal learning in sport.
Publications
Ronkainen, N. J., Allen-Collinson, J., Aggerholm, K., & Ryba, T. V. (2020). Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1012690220979710.
Ryba, T. V., Ronkainen, N. J., Douglas, K., & Aunola, K. (2020). Implications of the Identity Position for Dual Career Construction: Gendering the Pathways to (Dis) continuation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 101844.
Ronkainen, N. J., Ryba, T. V., & Allen-Collinson, J. (2020). Restoring Harmony in the Lifeworld? Identity, Learning, and Leaving Preelite Sport. The Sport Psychologist, 34(4), 268-275.
Ronkainen, N. J., Aggerholm, K., Ryba, T. V., & Allen-Collinson, J. (2020). Learning in sport: from life skills to existential learning. Sport, Education and Society, 1-14.
Ronkainen, N. J., Ryba, T. V., Aggerholm, K., & Allen-Collinson, J. (Mar 2020). Existential Learning in Youth Sport: Lessons Learned through Negativity. Paper presented at NERA conference 'Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries'. Turku, Finland.
Ronkainen, N. J., Ryba, T. V., Allen-Collinson, J., & Aggerholm, K. (Nov 2019). Learning not to be perfect: Female student-athletes’ pathways to self-care. Paper presented at 'Tackling discrimination – visions of gender equality in sport' conference. Jyväskylä, Finland.
Ronkainen, N. J., Ryba, T. V., & Allen-Collinson, J. (July 2019). Existential learning and adolescent identity: finding meaning of boundary situations. Paper presented at IMEC International Meaning Conference (p. 70). London, UK.
Ronkainen, N. J. (Sept 2018). Existential learning in sport through discontinuity. Paper presented at the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS) 46th Annual Meeting. Oslo, Norway (pp. 69-70).
