MASCULINITY IN SOCCER AS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE BY SITUATED LEARNING APPROACH


Bulgu N.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.28, sa.1, ss.79-91, 2013 (SSCI) identifier

Özet

An attempt was made to understand how masculinity is learned by members of the soccer community of practice by situated learning approach and thus the transforming of soccer into a masculine field in this study. The conceptual framework of the study is based on both Lave and Wenger's conceptualization of community of practice and Connell's conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity. The findings of the study indicate that "winning" and "violence for winning" are the shared repertoire of members of the soccer community of practice and there is a mutual engagement in those concepts among members. In conclusion, in this study, it was observed that masculinity is reproduced by learning and undertaking violence practices in the soccer community of practice and this contributes to the recognition of soccer as a male profession.