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Ubiquitous skill opens opportunities for talent and expertise development
Duarte Araújo1, João Roquette1, Keith Davids2
1CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Cruz Quebrada, Portugal.
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
|May 19, 2023
Summary
Talent is socially defined and identified early, initiating a specialization process from ubiquitous skills to expert performance in domains like sport. This pathway involves socialization, training, and ecological dynamics for skill refinement and actualization.
Area of Science:
- Sports Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
Background:
- Human daily life involves skillful behaviors, with specialization occurring in domains like sport and work.
- Experts in sports identify certain skillful behaviors as "talent," often at an early age.
- Talent is proposed as a socially defined construct, influencing selection and entry into specialized domains.
Purpose of the Study:
- To define and present the complementary nature of talent, skill, and expertise.
- To explore the process of talent development within specialized domains, particularly sport.
- To explain skill specialization using an ecological dynamics rationale.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of talent, skill, and expertise.
- Application of an ecological dynamics framework to skill learning.
- Examination of the socialization process in talent development pathways.
Main Results:
- Talent is a socially constructed label, identified early, and serves as an entry point for specialized domains.
- The development of talent involves socialization, training, and refinement of ubiquitous skills into specialized ones.
- Expert skill learning progresses through exploration (intention stabilization, perceptual attunement) and exploitation (calibration).
Conclusions:
- Talent identification and development are intertwined with social definition and specialized learning pathways.
- Ecological dynamics provides a framework for understanding the transition from potentiality to actualized expert performance.
- Skill specialization is a formalized process of refining and transforming ubiquitous skills through expert learning stages.
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