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The making of a champion : a constructed reality

This dissertation explores the construction and experience of the sports champion's
reality. In studying reality and its construction, I became familiar with, the post-modern
perspective of reality and with theories such as systems theory, cybernetics, radical
constructivism and social constructionism, which fall under the post-modern
epistemological umbrella. The dissertation gives an exposition of my journey through this
maze of theories, from a position of "knowing" how champions are made towards a more
complex position of uncertainty and possibility. This is followed by an account of the
qualitative research that I undertook, within a social constructionist framework, in which
I used thematic discourse analysis. Finally, I interpret the discourses emerging from the
analysis in order to demonstrate their operation or effect in the construction of a
champion's reality. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/2482
Date08 1900
CreatorsGaddie, Toni
ContributorsSnyders, Frederik Jacobus Albertus, 1946-
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1 online resource (vi, 144 leaves)

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