Collective Knowledge: Shared Concerns Among Basketball Team Players During a Game (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

This study examines the coordination that takes place between basket-ball players during an official match. It was conducted within the course-of-action semiological framework, which was originally developed in the French language for research into ergonomics (Theureau, 2006). Numerous recent empirical studies in the field of sports expertise have demonstrated its capacity. A major advantage of this framework is that it allows researchers to arrive at the meaning constructed by individuals during the course of their activity. We analyzed the various forms of concerns (i.e., preoccupations at a given moment) shared by basket-ball players during a match. Five national basket-ball players volunteered to participate in the study. The match was videotaped, and players? verbalizations were collected a posteriori. The data were processed according to the methodological principles of the course-of-action framework, in order to identify the different forms of sharing of the players? concerns...

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