Outline of a Theory of Practice.
About: This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 14683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practice theory.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that games taught in physical education using TGfU as a form educational conversation in which the mind, expressed in speech, and the body embodied in action, embody the ideal holistic learning experience that simultaneously provides for cognitive, affective, social, and physical learning.
Abstract: The “discursive turn” in the social sciences points to the potential in Teaching Games for Understanding pedagogy (TGfU) as a means of providing a holistic learning experience for students and a platform from which to reposition physical education among institutional forces that define boundaries between academic disciplines in the school curriculum. We argue that games taught in physical education using TGfU as a form educational conversation in which the mind, expressed in speech, and the body, expressed in action, embody the ideal holistic learning experience that simultaneously provides for cognitive, affective, social, and physical learning.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that religious nationalism is suffused with the religious and that it calls into question the theoretical duality of the social and the cultural, a divide variously identified with the material and the symbolic, class and status, economy and civil society.
Abstract: ▪ Abstract I first argue that religion partakes of the symbolic order of the nation-state and that contemporary nationalisms are suffused with the religious. I then suggest that religious nationalism calls into question the theoretical duality of the social and the cultural, a divide variously identified with the material and the symbolic, class and status, economy and civil society. Religious nationalism, I suggest, requires an institutional approach to the project of collective representation. Religious nationalism offers a particular ontology of power, an ontology revealed and affirmed through its politicized practices and the central object of its political concern, practices that locate collective solidarity in religious faith shared by embodied families, not in contract and consent enacted by abstract individual citizens. Understanding the institutional basis of religious nationalist discourse allows us to understand its affinities with socialist politics. If religious nationalism derives from relig...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss three different scales at which the cultures of rural living can be identified as important components of the experience of rural lifestyle: national, regional, local.
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TL;DR: The authors propose an analytic framework that unpacks the lived and ideological resources for positioning and their social and curricular implications for understanding classroom interactions, and demonstrate how acts of positioning construct ideological categorizations of persons and activity at the macro-scale and lived interactions at the micro-scale.
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