Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sports skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth …
This chapter provides an introductory guide to poststructuralist theory for researchers interested in conducting sport coaching research to develop pragmatic interventions …
Z Avner, ET Hall, P Potrac - Sport in Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Affect and emotions are integral to everyday social life, and they have, in recent years, been the subject of increased sociological theorising. Despite significant mainstream advances in …
LA Gale, BA Ives, PA Potrac… - Qualitative Research in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Through our investigation of relationship conflict and repair in community sport coaching this article makes a novel contribution to the sociology of sport work. Such inquiry is necessary …
D Donoso-Morales, GA Bloom… - Research Quarterly for …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Winning several national championships is an extraordinary feat that very few university coaches have accomplished. The objective of this study was to investigate how …
LA Gale, BA Ives, PA Potrac… - Sociology of Sport …, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
This study addressed the issue of interpersonal trust and distrust in the (sporting) workplace. Data were generated through cyclical, in-depth interviews with 12 community sports …
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses the lead author's understandings of coaching an …
LG Purdy, P Potrac - Sport, Education and Society, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
While the career experiences and trajectories of various sports workers have received increased scholarly attention, those of professional coaches have, in comparison, received …
K McNeill, N Durand-Bush… - Emotions in Sport …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The purpose of this study was to investigate coaches' subjective experiences of burnout in order to shed light on the complex emotional nature of this syndrome. Five full-time paid …