1st Edition

Emotions in Sport Coaching

Edited By Paul Potrac, Andy Smith, Lee Nelson Copyright 2018
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

Emotions are widely acknowledged as an inextricable feature of human behaviour, experience and interaction. They are, arguably, the glue that can bind people together or, alternatively, drive them apart. While social scientists have paid increasing attention to the centrality of emotions in social and pedagogical relationships, the sport coaching literature has remained largely free of emotions.... Read more

Introduction: Emotions in sport coaching: an introductory essay

Paul Potrac, Andy Smith and Lee Nelson

Chapter 1. Passion and paranoia: an embodied tale of emotion, identity, and pathos in sports coaching

Paul Potrac, Cliff Mallett, Kenny Greenough and Lee Nelson

Chapter 2. Sport coaches’ experiences of athlete injury: the development and regulation of guilt

Laura Ann Martinelli, Melissa Catherine Day and Ruth Lowry

Chapter 3. Understanding coach burnout and underlying emotions: a narrative approach

Kylie McNeill, Natalie Durand-Bush and Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre

Chapter 4. My eyes got a bit watery there: using stories to explore emotions in coaching research and practice for injured, sick and wounded military personnel

Kitrina Douglas and David Carless

Chapter 5. Emotions, identity, and power in video-based feedback sessions: tales from women’s professional football

Simone Magill, Lee Nelson, Robyn Jones and Paul Potrac

Biography

Paul Potrac is a Professor of Sports Coaching at Northumbria University and a Full Visiting Professor at University College Dublin. His research interests focus on the social dimensions of sport coaching and coach education, with a particular emphasis on the (micro)political and emotional features of practice.

Andy Smith is Professor of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill University. His research interests focus on the sociology of sport, physical activity and health, with particularly reference to mental health and illness.

Lee Nelson is a Reader of Sports Coaching at Edge Hill University. His research interests focus on the pedagogical, political, and emotional features of practice in coaching and coach education contexts.