ABSTRACT
In the first part of this chapter, six general principles of a symbolic interactionist perspective are outlined. These principles relate to: (1) people’s use of actions to do things; (2) the sequential nature of interactions; (3) the mutual organization of talk and gesture; (4) the importance of interpretation; (5) embodied participation frameworks, and; (6) the process by which interactions are embedded within a material world. The second part of the chapter is divided into three sub-sections. Each sub-section contains a brief exposition of specific analytic concepts that have been used within interactionist scholarship, and an accompanying illustration of the concepts being employed in the analysis of movement learning contexts. In the final part of the chapter, three issues are raised for further discussion: perspectives of movement knowledge, pedagogical relationships in movement learning situations, and movement identities.
