PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Sport Psychology, Middle Ages, Epiphenomenalism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS304
• Professor: Sean Ryan

Document Summary

Physical education: the foundation of physical education is human movement. Faculty slogan: where the art and science of human movement come alive : this emphasis on movement only makes sense within a dualistic framework. It"s the body that is what phys ed focuses on: changing this allows us to focus also on the human who is moving. In society, there has been a shift towards us looking at the physical benefits of physical activity: the article talks about privileging certain forms of knowledge over others, ex. Objective over the subjective or data over opinions: the article says there are preferences for positivist inquiry, the article also provides an incomplete understanding of the movement experience. Up is the opposite of down and vice versa: we even make into binaries things that don"t wory (ex. Dog and cat: coupled with this logic is a hierarchy, so we have not only opposition but also position (superiority and inferiority)