ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we take a detailed look at the possibilities physical educators have for bringing about movement learning. We focus on four different perspectives of learning, each of which is based on a certain analogy. We have termed these perspectives: (1) the information processing perspective, which foregrounds the place of memory in learning; (2) the non-linear pedagogical perspective, which is based on the idea that environmental and individual factors compel people to move in particular ways; (3) the organic learning perspective, which suggests that people - and especially young people - have natural drives to move that result in motoric improvement, and; (4) the guided discovery perspective, which likens movement learning to searching for and ‘finding’ specific movement patterns. For each perspective, we provide a short illustration of how the approach could look in learning contexts. The chapter is concluded with a brief discussion of how the perspectives might be combined in practice.