Reference

Woods, C. T., Rudd, J., Gray, R., & Davids, K. (2021). Enskilment: An ecological-anthropological worldview of skill, learning and education in sport. Sports Medicine-Open, 7(1), 1-9.

🚀 Article in 3 Sentences

1. Starts by exploring different views of skill learning and education in sport. They turn to the work of Tim Ingold as the notion of Enskillment to present a more relational view of this
2. They talk through the Enskillment and the ideas behind it. Enskillment proposes learning is inseparable from doing and/in place, meaning individuals become more actively self-regulating in performance through deepening their attentiveness to environmental features
3. They discuss in detail how the key entangled components (Taskscape, Guided Attention and Wayfinding) can be applied within sport

🤝Impressions

This was one my favourite papers that I’ve read. Really enjoyed reading it and it really got me thinking. It’s full of great content but written at quite an accessible level. In fact, I think it simplifies some of the words around skill acquisition or presents them in a really nice way.

👨‍🏫Who should read this?

I think every coach/teacher should read this. Lots of examples from sports that make it relevant for practitioners.

🎾How Article will influence my coaching

• I really liked the ‘ex-ducere’ which means to lead out.
• Tell them where to look but not what to see
• Learning is a process of active self discovery
• Players need to be aware of even the most subtle changes
• ‘Hands on softly’- Guide their attention towards the useful information
• The are a number of ways to guide attention. Nudging, designing and manipulating

📃Takeaways for coaches

• What is learned is not a body of knowledge transmitted to a passive recipient, but a progressively deepening ‘’embodied-embedded attentiveness” where the person learns to self regulate their behaviours by becoming increasingly ‘’sensitive’ to the people and environmental features by ‘’looking listening and feeling”
• 4)Etymology is the study of the history/origin of where words came from. Education derived from ‘ex-ducere’ which means to ‘lead out’