The Literate Practices of a Division ii men's basketball team
J. Michael Rifenburg
University of North Georgia
@jmrifenburg
scripted plays
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