Learning for Life: skateboarding, public pedagogy and belonging

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Sayers, Esther. 2025. Learning for Life: skateboarding, public pedagogy and belonging. In: Sander Holsgens and Adelina Ong, eds. Skate/Worlds: new pedagogies for skateboarding. Groningen, Netherlands: Groningen University Press, pp. 73-94. ISBN 9789403430607 [Book Section]

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This chapter explores how skate pedagogy extends beyond the acquisition of technical skills to support the potential life-worlds that skateboarders can inhabit. The analysis contributes to an understanding of the pedagogy of skateboarding within the broader discourse of education's purpose. In this context, social pedagogies and cultural learning produce symbolic and embodied ways of knowing that help to shape the communities to which we belong. Drawing from research with instructors, learners, skate schools, summer courses, and coaches in skateparks, I explore how a sense of belonging to the people, space, and culture in which we skate is linked to the engagement and imagination necessary to build a life of meaningful connections. This chapter proposes that collective play can lead to learning-for-life rather than simply learning for reification.

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https://doi.org/10.21827/656f071868dee