Week 4 Lecture 2

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Week 4 Lecture 2

• Multi-disciplinarity and Kinesiology, Humanistic
  and Expressive Knowledge

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Weekly Objectives

• Summarize Lab Experience 3
• Oval Observations
• Critical Thinking Concepts
• Theory and Analysis
• System Approach to CT
• Errors of Perception
• Gathering Data/Evidence
• Kinesiology Concepts
• Humanistic Knowledge
• Expressive Knowledge
• Communication Skills

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Methods of Analysis

• Inductive Reasoning
• Deductive Reasoning
• Descriptive Reasoning
• Speculative Reasoning
• Poetic or Critical Reasoning

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Inductive Reasoning

• What A logical process that draws on multiple
  experiences or phenomena for the purpose of
  arriving at a generalization or theory it begins
  with the intellectual consideration of many small
  and specific concepts and ends with a statement
  of a larger and more encompassing concepts.
• When Metaphysical Problems determines what
  characteristics are necessary and sufficient
• Limitations
• Selecting exemplars
• Recognizing the abstractions

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Inductive Analysis

• Based on the exemplars (sporting spaces,
  non-sporting spaces, physical barriers, sporting
  behaviours and communication behaviours, it is
  logical to induce the generalization that the
  Olympic Oval is a facilities
• where people do many different types of
  physical activity
• where the space people in habit contributes to
  the sporting identities that they develop for
  themselves and others
• where social identity is secondary to sporting
  identity.

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Deductive Reasoning

• What
• A Logical process that begins with general claims
  or premises and results with a hypothesis about
  specific experiences or phenomenon
• it moves from an abstraction to the real
• Because such and such is true, then it follows
  
• When After gathering exemplars for an inductive
  project.
• Limitations
• Finding uncontested premises
• Ensuring faultless deductive reasoning

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Deductive Analysis

• Given the theory of liminal space and evidence
  that the Oval is multi-sport facility with
  relatively few physical barriers that separate
  one group of athletes from another, it follows
  that speed skaters and runners experience equal
  opportunities to self-identify as primary
  citizens of this particular sporting community.

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Descriptive Reasoning

• What
• A systematic process of observing and describing
  the full content and human context of an
  experience, concept or phenomenon, principle
• Theory often drives descriptive reasoning
• When
• a real lived experience lacks a sound
  definition
• a principle lacks a sound definition.
• Limitations
• Blinding biases
• Framing an observation

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Descriptive Analysis

• The Olympic Oval is an extremely large
  interior space where athletes from extremely
  different sports train in close quarters and move
  fluidly among one another. Physical barriers
  that serve safety functions primarily are not
  necessarily barriers to human communication.
  These barriers do not eliminate the sense of
  shared space. In spite of the fluid movement
  among athletes, strong self-identities developed
  through specific sports, levels of training,
  competition success and age prohibit the
  development of a cohesive sense of community
  identity at the Oval.

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Poetic or Critical Reasoning

• What
• A logical deconstruction of concepts, experiences
  or phenomena
• discourse analysis assumes that all knowledge is
  impacted by relationships political, ethnic,
  gender, historical, economic.
• Knowledge is directly related to power.
• When attributing universal explanations for
  human phenomena is suspect
• Limitations
• Finite conclusions are impossible
• Tendency to become politically motivated

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Demonstration of Poetic Analysis

• Dr. Brown presented a research paper related to
  his ethno-historical study of the Olympic Oval
• This paper demonstrates the value of
  deconstructing a phenomenon and re-constructing
  it in a meaningful, logical and provocative
  presentation.