naa a22 4500 510762972 CHVBK 20180411083146.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12186-013-9099-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12186-013-9099-z Personal Social Networks and the Cultivation of Expertise in Magic: An Interview Study [Elektronische Daten] [Olli Rissanen, Tuire Palonen, Petteri Pitkänen, Gustav Kuhn, Kai Hakkarainen] The purpose of the present study was to examine expertise in magic by interviewing 16 prominent Finnish magicians who were identified earlier through a social network analysis of 120 Finnish magicians. A semi-structured interview was administered that addressed the participants' histories; their relationship to magic, the nature of their expertise, the networked development of expertise, their engagement with magical expertise and their motivation for cultivating such expertise. The results indicated that expertise in magic is cultivated, to a great extent, by informal networks of expertise without formal training. The participants had become excited about magic as children and started to pursue an expertise in the field from a relatively early age (4 to 14years). In accordance with other domains of expertise, it had taken about 10years of cultivating skills and competencies before becoming professional in the field, with a few exceptions. Ego-centric network analyses revealed that there were three or four magicians who had significantly shaped the Finnish field of magic and affected most of the participants' development and career. Most of the participants were clustered, forming a core of Finnish magicians, and those magicians working abroad and collaborating with international magicians were located at the periphery of the Finnish network or formed an isolated network of clusters within it. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Expertise nationallicence Expertise in magic nationallicence Networked expertise nationallicence 10-year rule nationallicence Rissanen Olli School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 86, 57101, Savonlinna, Finland aut Palonen Tuire Centre for Learning Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland aut Pitkänen Petteri School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 86, 57101, Savonlinna, Finland aut Kuhn Gustav Department of Psychology, Brunel University, London, UK aut Hakkarainen Kai Department of Education, University of Turku, Turku, Finland aut Vocations and Learning Springer Netherlands 6/3(2013-10-01), 347-365 1874-785X 6:3<347 2013 6 12186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-013-9099-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-013-9099-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rissanen Olli School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 86, 57101, Savonlinna, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Palonen Tuire Centre for Learning Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pitkänen Petteri School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 86, 57101, Savonlinna, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kuhn Gustav Department of Psychology, Brunel University, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hakkarainen Kai Department of Education, University of Turku, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vocations and Learning Springer Netherlands 6/3(2013-10-01), 347-365 1874-785X 6:3<347 2013 6 12186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer