Eastern Thought and Movement Forms: Possible Implications for Western Sport and Physical Education.
TITLE: Eastern Thought and Movement Forms: Possible Implications for Western Sport and Physical Education.
AUTHOR: Case, Robert W.
1983
ABSTRACT: American sport stresses the outward aspects of participation such as outcomes, rewards, goals, and winning;
Eastern thought and movement forms emphasize the inner and spiritual aspects of human movement such as self-realization,
spontaneity, body awareness, and enlightenment. In relating Eastern thought and movement forms to Western sport, five
themes are found to be repeated in the …
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…that" and "neither this nor that." The "and" between "East and West"
is then understood as both "and" and "not-and," allowing space for both conjunction and disjunction.
In this reframing, the bridges of the Pacific Rim can be viewed as both bridges and nonbridges. This
third space is an ambivalent space of both this and that, of both East and West, wherein the
traditions of Western modernist epistemology can meet Eastern traditions of wisdom. (YLB)
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