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The challenges of navigating different spaces and contexts in collaborative doctoral research in sport coaching Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Noel Dempsey, Samuel Wood, Reece Chapman, Simon J. Roberts, Colum Cronin
In this paper, we analyse our experiences as both researchers and supervisors while collaborating with national governing bodies (NGBs) on jointly funded doctoral sport coaching research projects. ...
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“It’s just been learning on the job”: becoming and developing as a ParaHockey coach Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Amy Elizabeth Hardwick, Tabo Huntley, Anthony Maher, Amy Whitehead
Although the body of literature around disability sport has grown in interest over the last decade, there remains a lack of research focusing on contexts where athletes have intellectual impairment...
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(Re)conceptualising coach education and development: towards a rhizomatic approach Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Thomas M. Leeder
To ensure sport coaches across all domains deliver ethical practices, appropriately educating the coaching workforce is of paramount importance. Yet, coach education programmes have been heavily cr...
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Translating meaning in sport coaching research: reflexivity and translation at work Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Han Wool Lee, Charles L. T. Corsby, Mara Mata
Despite a well-placed desire among sport coaching researchers to study diverse and international settings, discussions on the role of language translation have remained largely silent. While much o...
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A legacy of CRiC special issue: engendering critical debate within sport coaching research Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Charles L.T. Corsby, Edward T. Hall
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Understanding the pedagogic underpinning and knowledge sources of game form coaching in high-level team sport coaches Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-04-02 David Moran, Jamie Taylor, Áine Macnamara
Across a breadth of underpinning theories, the use of game form training has been advocated as a feature of effective team sport coaching. However, a number of issues have emerged, including naïve ...
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Positioning action research as a critical means of understanding coaching: considerations from the field Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Ashley Kempson, Oliver Lum
This paper shines light upon the methodological value of action research as a critical means of studying coaching practice. Described as an opportunity for bridging the gap between practice and res...
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Stimulated recall: problematising, challenging and extending conventional application Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Adam J. Nichol, Edward T. Hall
Stimulated recall is a qualitative research process which holds significant potential to develop understanding(s) of the ideological, philosophical, perceptual and emotional experiences that underp...
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Recognising, addressing and supporting the challenging nature of community sport coaching work: potential ways forward for research and practice Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Thalia Holdom, Adam Nichol, Ben Ives
This paper critically examines key issues that continue to pervade the domain of community sport coaching. Specifically, we centre attention on a) conceptualisations of policy implementation and en...
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Towards a critical consideration of the effects of coaching practice on athletic retirement: a poststructuralist perspective Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Neil Boardman, Luke Jones, John Toner
Dominant understandings of sports retirement have tied problematic outcomes to individual characteristics and the circumstances of an athlete’s exit from sport. In recent years, sociologists have p...
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Provocative, disruptive and re-orientating approaches to sports coaching research Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Alexandra Consterdine
This paper originates from my personal struggles and dissatisfaction with the unproblematic treatment of methodologies, politics, and procedures of doing sports coaching research. In response, I of...
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The realities of utilising participatory research and creative methods to explore the experiences of non-heterosexual coaches Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Beth Burgess, Győző Molnár, Don Vinson, Emma V. Richardson
Participatory research is “with”, “for” and “by” participants, rather than “on” or “to” them, thereby moving away from a traditional subject-researcher relationship towards a cooperative approach. ...
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Jim Denison: an obituary Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Robyn Jones
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Coach to learn and learn to coach: synergising performance and development in the athlete-coach-environment learning system Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Fabian Otte, Keith Davids, Martyn Rothwell, Matthew A Wood, James De-Mountfort
While high-performance sport traditionally highlights a dualist perspective on distinct pathways of development and performance coaching, an ecological dynamics rationale recognises the deeply entw...
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Social justice promotion in youth sport: insights from current high school coaches Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Tarkington J. Newman, Fernando Santos, Karen Collins, Scott Pierce, Jill Kochanek, Virginia Mercier, Levone Lee
Despite historic and contemporary injustices that permeate youth sport, few studies have explored perceptions of social justice among coaches. From a critical positive youth development perspective...
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Applying an ecological dynamics framework to mixed martial arts training Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Tyler Yearby, Shawn Myszka, Andy Grahn, Scott Sievewright, Adam Singer, Keith Davids
In this paper, we outline an ecological approach to training in mixed martial arts (MMA) to support coaches in helping fighters coordinate skilled movement solutions to the ever-changing problems t...
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Supporting the professional sports coach in the workplace: presenting the pedagogue as the missing scientist Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Shaun Peter Williams, Anthony Bush, Chris Baker
This is a positional paper in which we consider (re)imagining the role of the pedagogue as one who is specifically employed in a multi-disciplinary team of experts that can advise the professional ...
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A deconstruction of coaching philosophy Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mark Partington, Christopher J. Cushion
Coaching philosophy is positioned in the literature and practice as providing coaches with a clear guide for their coaching. However, current understandings of coaching philosophy suffer from a lac...
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How might we do it better? Applying educational curriculum theory and practice in talent development environments Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jack J. Moran, Murray P. Craig, Dave Collins
Although Talent Development is a key function for sports organisations, too little work has focused on the establishment of evidence-grounded methods for optimising progress. Drawing principally on...
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Exercise and well-being after high-performance sport: post-retirement perspectives Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Neil Boardman
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Sports coaching histories and biographies: a raison D’être Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Dave Day, Jean-Francois Loudcher, Serge Vaucelle
Contemporary research into sports coaching practice and coach behaviour stimulates discussion about the fundamental precepts of effective coaching, although these debates invariably lack references...
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Coach-athlete relationships and weight controlling behaviour in young athletes: perspectives from Norwegian athletes and coaches in sport climbing Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Martine Limstrand, Anne Tjønndal, Frida Austmo Wågan
In sports where low body weight is considered a competitive advantage, athletes are at high risk of developing disordered eating (DE) and eating disorders (ED). Previous studies have found that coa...
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Coaching practice as discovering performance: the wild contingencies of coaching Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Charles L.T. Corsby
While an enduring concern within coaching research has been to duly appreciate the importance of context, the tendency has been to treat context merely as a resource for analysis, rather than as ir...
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Seeing bad luck: player participation to tactical video analysis in amateur football Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Giolo Fele, Gian Marco Campagnolo
This paper focuses on the skills involved in gaining insight from visual evidence in tactical video analysis. Using multimodal analysis of video recordings of tactical video analysis in a case from...
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Coaching parkour: the instructed concerted actions of negotiating expectancies Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Raúl Sánchez-García
This paper offers an ethnomethodological (EM) account of parkour coaching based on an eight-month participant observation conducted by the researcher in a parkour gym in Madrid (Spain). It addresse...
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The sequential and reflexive achievement of coach participation in the live TV broadcasting of football Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Laurent Camus
This article draws on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to explore the accountability of coach participation in-game – i.e. its observability, tellability, reportability – by scrutinising ...
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“It isn’t as clear as you think”. The post coach: another step closer Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Joseph P. Mills, Sara Campbell, Clayton Kuklick
While post-structural scholarship exerts an increasing influence in the social sciences, the post-coach remains a distant concept because all coaches and coach educators are immersed in a humanist ...
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Essentially different or equally the same: uncovering sport coach discourses about coaching girls Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Anna Goorevich, Nicole M. LaVoi
Gendered discourses espoused by youth coaches have the potential to both reinforce gender essentialism or blind coaches to girls’ needs. This qualitative study utilised a multi-national, online sur...
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A guess by an expert or a joint accumulation of experience? A study of the admission process in Swedish sport schools: perspectives from school sport teachers Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Filip Andersson, Per Göran Fahlström
In this article we use the concept of Communities of Practice (CoP) to understand how Swedish school sport teachers enact the admission process, the identification and selection of student athletes...
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Sports coaching review editorial: a critical commentary Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Robyn L. Jones, Jim Denison, Charlie Corsby
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EMCA) studies of coaching in sport: a coaching special issue Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Charles L. T. Corsby, Raul Sánchez-García, K. Neil Jenkings
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2024)
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Investigating policy enactment in community sport coaching: directions for future research Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ben Ives, Dawn Penney, Jimmy O’Gorman, Adam J. Nichol, Paul Potrac, Lee Nelson
This article calls for a sophisticated investigation of policy enactment in sport-related environments, with community sport coaching used as an example case. Emphasis is placed on the need for in-...
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How can coaches tailor the coaching practices to scaffold players’ learning development? An insider action-research study in youth volleyball team Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Ana Ramos, Patrícia Coutinho, Isabel Mesquita
Through an insider action-research (AR) design, this study explored how a volleyball coach applied different pedagogical strategies to scaffold players' technical skills acquisition and tactical un...
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Reimagining the athlete development pathway: constraints-led, learning-based, life-long Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Paul Jurbala
Athlete Development Pathways (ADP) are used worldwide as guides to optimal athlete development. Existing ADPs tend to centre physical development and competition performance and fail to account for...
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“Joseph Maigrot (1900-1983): a track and field coach who pioneered a French style of coaching” Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Serge Vaucelle
This paper concerns the study of an eminent figure – Joseph Maigrot (1900–1983) – whose personality had a lasting impact on the development of athletics in France, influencing even the way coaching...
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Skill execution errors: an “it depends” perspective on their role, type and use when coaching for player development in sport Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Callum Ferguson, Howie J. Carson, Dave Collins
Decades of motor learning research has challenged the role of errors; for the same reason some authors promote them, others demote them. In this discursive article, we propose that the role of erro...
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Coach migration and the sharing of British expertise: some historical perspectives Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Dave Day
While indigenous coaching cultures are founded and sustained according to national traditions, coaching preferences cross national boundaries to influence cultural developments in other nations. Th...
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Jean Bretonnel, boxing coach (1925-1989): a cultural approach to understanding a remarkable career trajectory Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Jean-François Loudcher, Yannick Hernandez
Jean Bretonnel was a prominent French boxing coach/manager active from 1925 to 1989. He succeeded in shaping a new profession and, above all, in getting French boxing recognised by the Americans wh...
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‘The fragile science of bruising’ – Observations on intercorporeal connections between coaches and boxers before and during a fight Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt
Though boxing is usually perceived as an individual sport, the merging of boxer and coach into a joint corporeality is essential for prevailing the fight. Using several video recordings (respective...
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Female coaches and female fitness in nineteenth century Britain and Ireland Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Conor Heffernan, Joe Taylor
ABSTRACT In 1821, P.H. Clias travelled to England to take up a new job with the Royal Military and Maritime School teaching gymnastics to prospective soldiers. On arrival, Clias also established a private gymnastics school for the public. Soon after, Clias began training civilian instructors his branch of physical activity in the hope of establishing his system within the country. One such individual
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The processes of developing the coach-athlete relationship: a case study in women’s university sport Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Erin Corkery, Tim Fletcher
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to describe and interpret the processes of developing the coach-athlete relationship in a women’s university sports team across one competitive season. Data were generated from observations of 19 team practices and 11 games, and two individual interviews with the coach and three athletes. Participants’ unique perspectives of developing the coach-athlete relationship
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“The Ice Mother”: Figure Skating Coach Jutta Müller as Contributor and Profiteer of the East German’s Sport Performance System Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Jörg Krieger, Caroline Meier, Astrid Becker-Larsen
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the roles, responsibilities, struggles, constraints, and freedoms of coaches within the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) hierarchical, performance-focused sport system. The paper focuses on Jutta Müller, one of the most successful figure skating coaches of all time. We show how Müller had to become an actor in political power games within the GDR’s sport system, therewith
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A biographical analysis of Spanish athletics coaching pioneers (1939–1992) Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Carlos García-Martí, Juan Antonio Simón
ABSTRACT Athletics in Spain was a very minority practice until the 1950s, when athletics underwent a progressive development and institutionalisation that included the appearance, for the first time, of the role of the coach. Through the biographical study of five coaches of the first generation, this research aims to illuminate how the figure of the coach was built. Thus, the profession of coach arises
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Professional practice in sport performance analysis, 1st edition Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Spyridon Plakias
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Becoming Swedish pragmatics: comparing the coaching philosophies of Sven-Göran Eriksson and Pia Sundhage Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Robert Svensson Primus, Daniel Svensson
ABSTRACT Since the dawn of modern sport, Swedish athletes and leaders have made a significant impact in the global sport community, and Swedish scientists and entrepreneurs have contributed to the development of coaching and training. But when it comes to football, Sweden has rather taken influence from others. Two names contradict this relative anonymity – Sven-Göran Eriksson and Pia Sundhage. They
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“Five” or “ten”: analysing a co-operative correction in Muay Thai coaching Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Junichi Yagi
Error-correction in sport coaching consists of the following phases: (a) correction initiation, (b) error-identification, (c) solution proposal, and (d) practice resumption. Framed by multimodal co...
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Sport coaching as intra-action: an agential realist diffraction Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Martin Camiré
ABSTRACT Coaching science is a thriving sport science with a history of overlapping topical, methodological, and conceptual shifts drawing from humanist and poststructural lenses. Recently, a deeper engagement with the possibilities of inquiring through a posthumanist lens has been proposed, opening ontological passageways for coaching scholars to think and do coaching science differently. In efforts
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Exploring the coaching journeys of non-professional football players to professional football coaches Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Adam Cooper
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to comprehensively explore the coaching journeys and identity development of seven professional football coaches who had progressed from non-professional playing backgrounds to coach at the professional level. Semi-structured interviews were used and thematically analysed for each of the seven coaches, before being combined to create five major themes. Key findings
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Georges Boulogne, self-proclaimed guide of French soccer coaches, 1956-1982 Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Laurent Grün
ABSTRACT George Boulogne is a forgotten character of French football, though he stayed at the helm of the National Trainers from 1956 to 1982 as Technical National Directors. Albeit he wasn’t a professional footballer, he became permanent instructor of French Football Federation in 1958, and big chief of the annual football trainer’s courses. Because he held this position until 1982, he was able to
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Flipping technology and giving voice: a pilot study Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Jack Lewis Griffiths, Joseph Mills, Clayton Roth Kuklick
ABSTRACT Coach–athlete relationships (CARs) and using technologies are centrally important to coaching. Technology improves the information coaches use to advance their athletes and, by extension, promotes feedback aimed to boost development and performance. Yet on deeper examination, technology may also impede CARs because of the excessive levels of monitoring and control. Using a post-structural
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“He trusts me”: navigating the male weight room: emotions and reflective practice of a young, female strength and conditioning coach Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Crystal L. Abitz, Brian T. Gearity, Clayton R. Kuklick, Paul Potrac
ABSTRACT This autoethnographic account illuminates the integration of emotions, emotional labour (EL), and reflective practice (RP) of a young, female strength and conditioning coach as she worked to resolve an interpersonal problem with a male athlete during the American football season. The lead author referred to her reflective journal from this season and engaged in retrospective reflection-on-action
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White privilege in Canadian high school sport: investigating white coaches’ perspectives on social justice issues Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Evan Bishop, Stéphanie Turgeon, Wesley Tang, Tarkington J. Newman, Leisha Strachan, Corliss Bean, Martin Camiré
ABSTRACT Sport constitutes an important setting in which to study whiteness given ongoing issues related to power, privilege, and oppression. The purpose of the study was to examine white privilege in Canadian high school sport by investigating white coaches’ perspectives on social justice issues. A total of 463 high school coaches who self-identified as white completed an online survey. Results showed
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Coach perceptions of child safeguarding policy in New Zealand’s youth sport sector Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Blake Bennett, Shengnan Wang, Glenn Fyall
ABSTRACT The current study surveyed 237 coaches in New Zealand on their perceptions of child safeguarding (CSG) discourse, resources, and policy in sport; and the changes in pedagogy they deemed necessary in response. Data indicates that, despite a reasonable level of awareness and uptake of CSG policy in the sector, concurrent trends require attention. Specifically, this relates to the potential adoption
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Obituary: William George ‘Bill’ Taylor Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Robyn L. Jones
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Vol. 12, No. 3, 2023)
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Understanding the developmental experiences of high-performance coaches in Northern Ireland: A collective case study from an ecological perspective Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Michael Cooke, Justine Allen, Kyle F. Paradis
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to examine the developmental experiences of high-performance coaches in Northern Ireland as a collective case study from an ecological perspective. Eight high-performance coaches from Northern Ireland were recruited and participated in semi-structured interviews. Each participant coached athletes at either World Championships, European Championships, Summer
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Post-structural pedagogy in a coach development curriculum Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Clayton Roth Kuklick, Joseph P. Mills
ABSTRACT Given the need for post-modern education, and likewise, coach development to better prepare coaches for messy and complex realities, the purpose of this study was to explore the use of coach developers’ post-structural pedagogical practices. Using post-structural assumptions as a lens for analysing two coach developer’s pedagogies in a higher education master’s degree coaching programme, such
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An Explicit Look at Implicit Learning: an Interrogative Review for Sport Coaching Research and Practice Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Dave Collins, Alan C. MacPherson, Ray Bobrownicki, Howie J. Carson
ABSTRACT Over the past 30 years, implicit coaching has emerged as a popular learning tool and pre-emptive intervention to avoid choking under pressure. Despite advocacy in the sport coaching literature, however, we are concerned that theoretical, methodological, and practical issues have potentially inflated or obscured its utility for coaching practice. In this paper, we lay out and elaborate on these
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Constraints of the constraints-led approach in American football and comments on Yearby et al. (2002) Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Ray Bobrownicki, Howie J. Carson, Alan C. MacPherson, Dave Collins
ABSTRACT In recent literature, constraints-led approaches have been promoted for practice design to coaches of American football. While we agree that this approach would represent a useful tool, we put forward that ecological approaches alone are insufficient to address the complexity and diversity of real-world sporting contexts, so coaches must carefully consider how constraints-led approaches might
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Care in sport coaching; different perspectives and alternative voices Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Colum Cronin
ABSTRACT It is well established that coaching is a social process indexed to particular and dynamic contexts e.g., recreation sport, high-performance sport. Inherent to these contexts, and the social process, is the relationship between an athlete and a coach. It has been argued from moral, legal, and performance enhancing perspectives that these relationships should be caring relationships, where
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Editorial: In the interest of discussion, debate, and future possibilities Sports Coaching Review Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Robyn L. Jones, Jim Denison, Charles L. T. Corsby
Published in Sports Coaching Review (Ahead of Print, 2022)