The Learning Process
Mary Inks’ wrote an essay “Dancing Through the Learning Process” on her experiences of the learning process. She uses a dance metaphor. In her essay, she mentions three main steps: Imitation through observation, Formal Instruction, and Experimenting. This essay will be a comparison essay to Inks’ process of learning how to dance, to mine, learning how to play basketball. Basketball and dancing have many differences but the process of learning is similar therefore Inks’ is logical.
Back when I was growing up, basketball was a family tradition sport. My grandparents played, my parents and their siblings played, so, it was not an unusual sport. I’ve seen videos of my family playing basketball and read newspaper clippings. I used to even watch my dad and his marines play basketball every Friday night at the local gym on base. Basketball was something I enjoyed watching, that’s where my interest of the sport came from, observation.
First step to the learning process according to Inks' essay is imitation through observation. Imitation through observation is pretty much where the interest begins to occur. Inks' said "most people take dancing lessons because they want to: they've been inspired to learn to dance"(Inks 606). Inspiration plays a big role when speaking about gaining an interest in something. For example, seeing my dad's…show more content… Which brings me to the third step experimenting with style. “Experimenting with style… allows dancers to improve their presentation…” (Inks 608). This is the step where you realize that your style becomes second nature to you. “Eventually, technically correct … become second nature. (Inks 608)” Learning how to dribble, shoot, pass, etc. during practices, I eventually didn’t have to think about how to do the following. Inks mentions about dancers, “No longer do dancers have to think about the proper to more or…. (Inks
