Soldiers´ reach for optimized performance
Doctoral thesis
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This dissertation is concerned with the challenge of better understanding how soldiers develop
skillfulness needed to deal with the various challenges they face in their life-worlds, as soldiers.
The study bears on empirical material gathered through participating observation and qualitative
interviews with Norwegian soldiers during winter exercises: soldiers mainly belonging to forceproducing
military units for upcoming missions in Afghanistan. Special emphasis is placed on
how relevant experiences, intuitive/deliberate behavior and context-sensitivity may influence the
soldiers’ skill execution. The notion that the soldiers’ practice arena is more or less isolated from
the arena where the soldiers are expected to deliver high-leveled performances contributes to
substantiate these aspects further. Paper I: Eriksen, J.W. (2010) Mindless Coping in Competitive Sport: Some Implications and
Consequences. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 4(1), 66 - 86 Paper II: Eriksen, J.W. (2010) Should Soldiers Think before They Shoot? Journal of Military
Ethics, 9(3), 195 - 218 Paper III: Eriksen, J.W. From Expert Skills towards Optimized Performance. Submitted, Armed
Forces and Society. Paper IV: Eriksen, J.W., & Heier, T. (2009). Winter as the Number One Enemy? Lessons Learned
from North Afghanistan. RUSI Journal 154(5), 64 –71
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Avhandling (doktorgrad) - Norges idrettshøgskole, 2011