The Relevance of Cognitive Resources in Synchronized Swimming Trainings: the case of scaffoldings and affordances

  • Dafne Muntanyola
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT) Institut d'Estudis del Treball (IET) dafne.muntanyola[at]uab.cat
  • David Casacuberta
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filosofia
  • Anna Estany
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filosofia

Abstract

In synchronized swimming, highly competitive trainings arts and sports elements converge. We wonder how scaffoldings and affordances contribute to the stabilization of cognitive resources among the trainer and swimmers of the Spanish Olympic synchronized swimming team. We dwell on what is taken as cognitive resources and the role of scaffolding and affordances. We analyze communication patterns and examine the work process leading to synchronized swimming. We propose a cognitive ethnography on training, an innovative method that explains the patterns of activity of local interactions among participants in sports. We applied ELAN program and incorporated Jeffersonian transcriptions that come from conversational analysis method. Results show how the training process involves interaction in an environment that includes social agents, material resources and conceptual models that feed each other.
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Muntanyola, D., Casacuberta, D., & Estany, A. (2018). The Relevance of Cognitive Resources in Synchronized Swimming Trainings: the case of scaffoldings and affordances. ArtefaCToS. Revista De Estudios Sobre La Ciencia Y La tecnología, 7(1), 51–73. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2018715173

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Author Biography

Anna Estany

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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filosofia
Anna Estany es profesora de Filosofía de la Ciencia en el Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y miembro fundador del Centro de Estudios de Historia de la Ciencia de la UAB. Integrante de la Sociedad Española de Lógica, Filosofía y Metodología de la Ciencia, ha publicado, entre otros, los libros Modelos de cambio científico (1990), Introducción a la filosofía de la ciencia (1993) y Manual de prácticas de filosofía de la ciencia (2001).
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