Sport Coaching Research And Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity And Critical Realism (Routledge Research In Sports Coaching)

Some indications about how the ERE model fits together: how sport coaching can be understood as a relational totality -- The ERE model applied to d'Arripe-Longueville and colleagues -- Summary -- 7 Undertaking critical realist-informed interdisciplinary research on sport coaching -- Introduction -- The implications of a critical realist ontology for research work: the centrality of theory -- The adaptive cycle -- Developing theory -- Targeting data sources/sampling -- Data collection approaches and methods -- Summary -- 8 An ethnographic case study of kayak slalom performer development coaching -- Introduction -- The research -- The research 'story' in brief: 15 months with the 'Academy' -- Kayak slalom coaches and paddlers embedded in a wider sporting ecology -- The coaching goals -- Stakeholder actions -- Strategies with underpinning reasons -- Resources -- A brief theoretical exploration of PDP humour -- Summary -- 9 Reflections on sport coaching and sport coaching research -- Introduction -- Reflections on sport coaching -- Reflections on sport coaching research -- Critical reflections on existing research approaches -- Some brief recommendations for sport coaching research -- Final thoughts -- Index

• • Author: Julian North
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jun 02, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 326 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 113880410X
• • ISBN-13: 9781138804104