Summary
Contents
This book systematically demonstrates the significance and application of method in plain language.
Written for students, this book contains the core methodological concepts, practices, and debates they need to understand and apply research methods within the field of sport and exercise. It provides a comprehensive panoramic introduction which will reassure and empower its readers.
Written by a leading academic, and drawing on years of teaching experience, it includes carefully cross-referenced entries which critically engage with interdisciplinary themes and data.
Each concept includes:
Clear Definitions; Suggestions for Further Reading; Comprehensive Examples; Practical Applications
Pragmatic, lucid, and concise, the book will provide essential support to students in sport and exercise science, kinesiology, and health.
Interpretivism
Interpretivism
To students in human movement studies, health sciences, kinesiology or physical education, the concept of interpretivism can be foreign and wildly confusing. At least 75–80% of our undergraduate students in sport, exercise and health studies come to methods class possessing minds brimming with the idea that science = research = true knowledge. The notion and practice of interpretivism in research challenges such an assumption at its very roots. Interpretivism champions a divergent way of knowing and understanding the realities of human movement, and as an overall paradigm in the academy, destabilises the sentiment that science is always the best approach for asking and answering important questions.
What Is This Concept?
The precise nature of interpretivism, like all of our concepts, is debated by researchers but can be ...