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Sport Coaching Research and Practice Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism

By Julian North Copyright 2017

326 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

326 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

326 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions. Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts,... Read more

Table of Contents

1. A New Approach for Sport Coaching Research

2. Psychologised Approaches to Sport Coaching Research

3. Sociologised Approaches to Sport Coaching Research

4. Disciplinary Agreements and Disagreements About Sport Coaching

5. Interdisciplinarity, Ontology and Critical Realism

6. A Critical Realist Informed Sport Coaching Ontology for Interdisciplinary Thinking
and Research: Introducing the ERE Model

7. Undertaking Critical Realist Informed Interdisciplinary Research on Sport Coaching

8. An Ethnographic Case Study of Kayak Slalom Performer Development Coaching

9. Reflections on Sport Coaching and Sport Coaching Research

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Biography

Julian North is a Reader in Sport Coaching in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK

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