Gerhard Kaminski
University of Tuebingen, Germany
Citation
Kaminski, G. (2009). (No) Final Comment: What I have learnt. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 40(1), 190-206.
Abstract
Final: When I was granted responding to commentaries as well as to the colleagues’ target articles I imagined proceeding as follows: While studying all these contributions thoroughly I would, in particular, look out for spots in the texts where I felt to have been misunderstood or misinterpreted, so that I could, after all, aspire and achieve final clarification by some further explication. Not final: The more I really progressed in reading all these papers the more I had to realize how unrealistic my initial view had been. I got lots of important new information. Yet, in accord with the accrual of new informa- tion, also a growing bulk of questions emerged, a plethora of new problems needing further discussion. So, I rather came up with the idea that what seems to be needed now is something like a workshop where all the – even more than ever before - pending questions and problems could be discussed in adequate detail. Hence, what I am able to present here will not be more than kind of a personal interim balance which I would take as a base when going into further discussions. Avoiding misunderstandings and misinterpre- tations would, first of all, require attaining an adequate conception of the mutual interrelations between the different positions. This demands, in my view, differentiating these ecological approaches – beyond their fundamental commonalities — on at least three different levels, or locating them within three different frames of reference (“ecological realities”, “primordial articu- lations”, “strategies of conceptualization”).
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