Le rôle des attitudes affectives dans la formation des habiletés sensori-motrices

Abstract

The informations given both by workers and athletes one may find in biographic statements give an opportunity to consider the learning of motor skills through the emotional attitudes involved in their achievement. The technical initiation, giving the learner a certain amount of levels to reach and tasks to achieve, appears like a socializing process. To be transmitted, the action is described in a metaphoric style and pratically never explained nor broken up. One is primarily concerned with the attitude the subject has to assume during its accomplishment. The ritual behaviours observed while the subject performs the task show that this type of learning involves a magical control of the body and has a function of seducing and establisching the most intimate communication with the matter and the elements. The skill emerges when the object is not represented for itself but in some way mingles with the subject. The loss of self-consciousness and the diminishing importance of mental control are sought to attain better receptiveness and readiness. For the sake of economy and efficiency, the practitioner is led to find the more simple and direct way. Analogy constitutes a widespread procedure employed to integrate previous experiences and build larger and larger « wholes » that may be used immediately.