The Literate Practices of a Division ii men's basketball team


J. Michael Rifenburg
University of North Georgia
@jmrifenburg

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Plan


  • Provide brief intro to literature on connections between mind and body especially regarding college sports
  • Offer one way in which plays learn plays

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review of Literature

  • Fleckenstein's "Writing Bodies." College English
  • Knoblauch's "Bodies of Knowledge" Composition Studies
  • Syverson's The Wealth of Reality. Southern Illinois UP.

Specifically about athletics
  • Lamb's "Writing: An Athletic Performance." English Journal.
  • Hawhee's Bodily Arts. U of Texas P.
  • Cheville's Minding the Body. Heinemann.

UNG Men's Basketball team

  • Players learn through spatial orientation
  • Players learn through scaffolded situations
  • Players learn through haptic communication

haptic communication


sensory perception--touch--helps learning

haptic communication, cont'd


"To think of writing as a practice of coexistence is to image a merging of various forms of matter . . . in an activity not solely dependent on one's control but made possible by elements that codetermine the writing's possibility"

Micciche's  "Writing Materials" College English



T.J. Williams

"if someone is near me, I will be like 'oh, crap. I gotta set a screen for them'"

At the close

Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement: 40% (n = 30,286) "very much" involved in high school athletics

7.7 million high school athletes (National Federation of State High School Associations)

75% of college students use campus rec facilities. 21% never do (National Intramural-Recreation Association)

And...


Let's get uncomfortable in our research

Let's stop looking for literacy where we expect to find it
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