McIlvenny2019b

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McIlvenny2019b
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key McIlvenny2019b
Author(s) Paul McIlvenny
Title “It’s Going to Be Very Slippery”: Snow, Space and Mobility While Learning Cross-country Skiing
Editor(s) Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange
Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation analysis, Materialities, Snow, Skiing, Learning, Instruction, Mobilites, Space
Publisher Routledge
Year 2019
Language
City London
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 77-100
URL Link
DOI 10.4324/9780429198496-6
ISBN 9780367726676
Organization
Institution
School
Type Book Section
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Material Mobilities
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Abstract

This chapter examines how a child learns to sense and move through a transient environment while recreational cross-country skiing. A mobile video ethnography was undertaken of a parent instructing a novice child on how to ski. Using interactional analysis, the paper examines how snow is sensed, felt and made salient in spatio-interactional practices, and how the snowscape is (re)territorialised by the participants making temporary tracks in the snow. In this way, tracks can shape future mobile actions and immanent pedagogical activities within the practices of cross-country skiing, which inculcate the child’s feeling for an ephemeral geography of snow.

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