R L Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 37092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R L Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | R L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1781-6869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 535 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Developing leaders from within
The capable coach
This study contributes to the developing body of research examining the precarity of professional coaching. As ‘antidotes’ to such vulnerability, concepts such as resilience and coping have been promoted in ego centric ways. In doing so, the coach has been portrayed as an individual who must be self-sufficient, self-determining, and independent; a stance that ignores or excuses the influence of structural workplace conditions. The purpose of the …
Developing creative coaches through action research
Although creativity has increasingly become a focus for general developmental attention in many fields, its practical implementation has been bedevilled by problems. Notwithstanding such doubts, the promise of creativity has been eagerly embraced within sport. In taking account of the on-going need to develop sports coaches’ knowledge and practice in situ, the aim of this project was to develop coaches’ creativity through an action research (AR) …
Bordering, Connecting, and Dispelling within Sports Coaching
The current picture of sports coaching suggests one where practitioners and scholars operate not so much at a particular interface, but rather on parallel lines of development; in essence, of talking past as opposed to each other. Through a critical re-reading of the practitioner–scholar divide, this paper takes issue with the existence of the separate identities featured, in addition to the argument that we merely need a better, rather straightf…
Coaching and 'Self-repair
The significance of this article lies in examining how sports coaches construct and negotiate their professional sense making; what Goffman described as the practices engaged in to manage 'ugly' interpretations. Using the work of Garfinkel and Goffman, the article pays attention to coaches' 'ethno-methods'; that is, the background knowledge and practical competency employed in forming and maintaining social order. In doing so, the explanatory acc…
Charming, influencing and seducing
Since a critical turn was embarked on two decades ago, research into sports coaching has increased in quality and quantity [see Jones, R. L. (2019). Studies in sports coaching. Cambridge Scholars Publishing]. Despite such welcome advances, the essence or heart of the activity remains contested terrain [Abraham, A., & Collins, D. (2011). Taking the next step: Ways forward for coaching science. Quest (grand Rapids, Mich), 63(4), 366–385. https://do…
Complicity, performance, and the 'doing' of sports coaching
Recent attempts to 'decode' the everyday actions of coaches have furthered the case for sports coaching as a detailed site of 'work'. Adhering to Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodological project, the aim of this article is to deconstruct contextual actors' interactions, paying specific attention to the conditions under which such behaviours occur. The article thus explores the dominant taken-for-granted social rules evident at Bayside Rovers Footba…
Observation, evaluation and coaching
Inspired by ethnomethodological attention to social order, the aim of this paper was to examine the visible, tangible and contextual details of how coaches’ observations, or what coaches actually see, are accomplished in practice. Drawing upon examples from a season long ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of a semi-professional football club, the paper positions coach observation, not as a visual perception, but as a locall…
Humour in Sports Coaching
The primary purpose of this article was to investigate the use and manifestation of humour within sports coaching. This was particularly in light of the social significance of humour as a critical component in cultural creation and negotiation. Data were gathered from a 10-month ethnographic study that tracked the players and coaches of Senghenydd City Football Club (a pseudonym) over the course of a full season. Precise methods of data collectio…
What do coaches orchestrate? Unravelling the ‘quiddity’ of practice
The general purpose of this article is threefold. Firstly, it is to further the notion of coaching as orchestration through developing insight into precisely how and what coaches orchestrate. Secondly, it is to firmly position coaching as a relational practice, whilst thirdly it is to better define coaching’s complex nature and how it can be somewhat ordered. Following an introduction where the purpose and value of the article are outlined, we pr…
Latent learning in the work place
The aim of this study was to investigate the work-based internship experiences of eight student-coaches. This was particularly in terms of what precisely such coaches learned within the practical context, and how they engaged with unexpected situational events. The methods employed within the project included focus group interviews and participant observation. In particular, the student-coaches were both interviewed and observed over the course o…
‘Stepping away from the computer and into the sweats’
While research has found that a developed exercise identity enables individuals to view exercise participation as self- reinforcing, the social barriers to such exercise identity development and participation have not been fully addressed. The subsequent aim of this study was to explore some of the social complexities at play in terms of how company employees construct and manage their exercise identities within a work place setting. A case-study…
The promise and problems of video diaries
The purpose of this paper was to further explore the use of video diaries as a research method. Specifically, the principal objective was to detail and deconstruct the use of video diaries in relation to some of the claims made on their behalf, particularly those related to participant voice, empowerment and spontaneity. The paper is presented through the illustration of a longitudinal case study into undergraduate sports coaching students’ learn…
Activity theory, complexity and sports coaching
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is to advance the case for activity theory (AT) as a credible and alternative lens to view and research sports coaching. Second, it is to position this assertion within the wider debate about the epistemology of coaching. Following a framing introduction, a more comprehensive review of the development and current conceptualisation of AT is given. Here, AT's evolution through three distinct phases and …
Coaching, caring and the politics of touch
This paper has three principal purposes. The first involves locating the ‘politics of touch’ as related to coaching within Noddings' theory of pedagogical caring. Noddings' framework is presented not so much as a prescription of ‘good practice’, but as a potential way to raise the profile and somewhat problematise the debate about touching as a part of coaching. The second objective of the paper is to further the case for visual methods, and in p…
I found out the hard way
This paper examines the micro-political experiences of Adam (a pseudonym), a newly appointed fitness coach at a Football Association Premier League club, in his search for acceptance by senior colleagues. Data were collected through a series of in-depth, semi-structured interviews, before being subject to a process of inductive analysis. Goffman's writings on impression management and stigma, Kelchtermans's micro-political perspective and Garfink…
Further thoughts on the writing of stories
A Bourdieusian analysis of cultural reproduction
This article draws on the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to provide an explanatory account of how socialisation and the hidden curriculum within coaching practice contribute toward the formation of social identities and powerful schemes of internalised dispositions. Drawing on a 10 month ethnography within professional football, the research found that day-to-day practice was ideologically laden and served the production, reproduction an…
Developing coaching pedagogy
Despite evidence that experience within practical coaching contexts serves as the principal knowledge source for coaches, academic (and professional) coach education programmes continue to be heavily taught along didactic lines. Such courses are often considered as fine in theory but divorced from the gritty realities of practice. The aim of this article was to construct and evaluate a pedagogical framework (delivered through an MSc unit) drawn f…
Applied utility and the auto-ethnographic short story
In some quarters it is argued that, narrative researchers might be classified as being either story-analysts or storytellers. They go on to suggest that one feature of storytellers is that they undertake a form of analysis as the process of writing unfolds. With these sentiments in mind, in the present paper, we consider how auto-ethnographical accounts of traumatic and challenging life events might, through the analysis contained within, demonst…
Changing personas and evolving identities
I Brage finner du siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde ubetydelige forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.tandfonline.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.586688 / In Brage you'll find the final text version of the article, and it may contain insignificant differences from the journal's pdf version. The original publication is available at www.tandfonline.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.…
Choppy Waters
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between elite rowers and their coaches. We were particularly interested in how the rowers constructed and negotiated the interactions and pedagogical actions of the coaches. Drawing upon participant observation and the principal researcher’s reflexive journal, data were collected over a five-month period while ten rowers participated in a preparatory training camp for subsequent selection to c…
Integrated modelling of climate control and air pollution
Phronetic social science
The aim of this paper is to present the case for phronetic social science as an appropriate lens through which to view sports coaching. In doing so, we firstly define and then elaborate upon the principal concepts contained within phronetic social science as related to complex action, flexibility, moral reflection and power. By locating them within recent coaching research, the case is further made how such concepts can help coaching scholars and…
Studentship’ and ‘impression management’ in an advanced soccer coach education award
The purpose of this study was to investigate how coaches perceived and responded to the content knowledge and assessment processes that they were exposed to during an advanced level soccer coaching award programme. In-depth interviews were conducted with six coaches who had successfully completed the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) ‘A’ Licence in the UK. Using the concepts of the ‘dialectic of socialisation’, ‘studentship’ and Goff…
Power, Discourse, and Symbolic Violence in Professional Youth Soccer
A sociological analysis was conducted into the collective nature of coaching as manifest in the triangular interaction between coach, athlete, and context within English professional youth soccer. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is predominantly used to interpret data collected ethnographically over the course of a 10-month season. Findings show how an authoritarian discourse is established and maintained, how it is structured by and subsequently str…
A Bourdieusian analysis of cultural reproduction
This article draws on the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to provide an explanatory account of how socialisation and the hidden curriculum within coaching practice contribute toward the formation of social identities and powerful schemes of internalised dispositions. Drawing on a 10 month ethnography within professional football, the research found that day-to-day practice was ideologically laden and served the production, reproduction an…
It's All About Getting Respect
In light of the paucity of research addressing the critical concerns of social interaction at the micro level of the coaching process, this study aimed to generate an in-depth understanding of the coaching behaviours utilized by a top-level English football coach. A mixed-method approach was used to not only identify the pedagogical behaviours used by the subject in the practice environment, but to also generate an in-depth insight into the ratio…
Dilemmas, Maintaining "Face," and Paranoia
The purpose of this article is to tell a different, perhaps a "truer," story about coaches and coaching through presenting an autoethnography of the author as a dysfluent coach. The author's tale, which depicts a typical pregame scenario, explores issues associated with maintaining "face" and others' respect in a context characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and power. In addition, within the endnotes, the applicability of the storied genre to…
Another bad day at the training ground
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic. We therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners. Second, we tentatively offer the alternative metaphor of ‘orchestration’, derived from research on the management of complex change, …
Studentship’ and ‘impression management’ in an advanced soccer coach education award
The purpose of this study was to investigate how coaches perceived and responded to the content knowledge and assessment processes that they were exposed to during an advanced level soccer coaching award programme. In-depth interviews were conducted with six coaches who had successfully completed the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) ‘A’ Licence in the UK. Using the concepts of the ‘dialectic of socialisation’, ‘studentship’ and Goff…
Constructing Expert Knowledge
The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth understanding of some of the ways in which one elite soccer coach has constructed, and continues to construct, his professional knowledge. By adopting a life-story approach the paper problematises the predominant rationality of much existing coaching research and questions the role of coach education programmes in the development of coaching knowledge. To accomplish this, the paper focuses on th…
I found out the hard way
This paper examines the micro-political experiences of Adam (a pseudonym), a newly appointed fitness coach at a Football Association Premier League club, in his search for acceptance by senior colleagues. Data were collected through a series of in-depth, semi-structured interviews, before being subject to a process of inductive analysis. Goffman's writings on impression management and stigma, Kelchtermans's micro-political perspective and Garfink…
Constructing Images and Interpreting Realities
Through its interpretation of events, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated sport is often seen to be presented within certain ideological discourses which reflect existing power structures. The aim of this study was to investigate this phenomenon through an analysis of the images constructed of the Black soccer player in the UK by television commentators. The methodology employed was two-fold. First, 100 hours of football footage w…
Ecological Relations in Historical Times
Speed, Aggression, Strength, and Tactical Naïveté
The aim of the study was to analyze whether the language used by television commentators during the coverage of domestic English soccer matches differed according to the race of the player. It was hypothesized that the English television medium constructed negative images of the Black domestic soccer player through the descriptive narratives and metaphors adopted. The methodology was composed of a verbal content analysis (as used by Sabo and coll…
Micropolitical Workings in Semi-Professional Football
This paper seeks to illuminate the micropolitical strategies that Gavin (a pseudonym) used in an attempt to persuade the players, the assistant coach, and the chairman at Erewhon City Football (soccer) Club to “buy into” his coaching program and methods. Data for the study were collected through in-depth, semistructured interviews, and a reflective log relating to those interviews. The interviews were transcribed verbatim with the subsequent tran…
The Black Experience within English Semiprofessional Soccer
In addressing the wider issue of the Black experience in sport, this study provides an avenue of research into perceived discriminatory practices against Black semiprofessional soccer players and how such practices are dealt with by the players. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 Black players to document their related experiences. Analysis of common emergent themes from the data reveal that the continued existence of stereotypical attitu…
Coaching redefined
Following a brief introduction, in which the chosen format is discussed, this article comprises a dialogue between present-day coaching science (CS) and a critic, educational relationship (ER). ER disparages current conceptualisations of coaching as irrelevant and implores CS to redefine itself as an educational relationship between coach and athlete, paying particular attention to the micro-interactions that occur between them. Drawing on recent…
What do coaches orchestrate? Unravelling the ‘quiddity’ of practice
The general purpose of this article is threefold. Firstly, it is to further the notion of coaching as orchestration through developing insight into precisely how and what coaches orchestrate. Secondly, it is to firmly position coaching as a relational practice, whilst thirdly it is to better define coaching’s complex nature and how it can be somewhat ordered. Following an introduction where the purpose and value of the article are outlined, we pr…
Choppy Waters
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between elite rowers and their coaches. We were particularly interested in how the rowers constructed and negotiated the interactions and pedagogical actions of the coaches. Drawing upon participant observation and the principal researcher’s reflexive journal, data were collected over a five-month period while ten rowers participated in a preparatory training camp for subsequent selection to c…
Power, consent and resistance
This study builds upon existing socio-cultural work into sports coaching by probing the meanings and varieties of the shared coach–athlete experience. Specifically, the paper utilises an autoethnographic approach in an attempt to chart the complex and dynamic relationship that existed between me, the principal author, as a rowing coxswain and my coach during the preparation for a national rowing championship. Data were drawn from a training diary…
Changing personas and evolving identities
I Brage finner du siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde ubetydelige forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.tandfonline.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.586688 / In Brage you'll find the final text version of the article, and it may contain insignificant differences from the journal's pdf version. The original publication is available at www.tandfonline.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.…
Developing coaching pedagogy
Despite evidence that experience within practical coaching contexts serves as the principal knowledge source for coaches, academic (and professional) coach education programmes continue to be heavily taught along didactic lines. Such courses are often considered as fine in theory but divorced from the gritty realities of practice. The aim of this article was to construct and evaluate a pedagogical framework (delivered through an MSc unit) drawn f…
Negotiation and capital
The aim of this paper is to examine how power is given, acquired and used by athletes in the elite sporting context. It focuses on a top-level athlete's reactions to the behaviors of his coaches and how such actions contribute to the creation of a coaching climate, which both influences and ‘houses’ coaching. The paper centers on Sean (a pseudonym), a top-level rower and his preparation for crew selection to the upcoming international regatta sea…
Understanding Power and the Coach’s Role in Professional English Soccer
The purpose of this study was to analyze the coaching behaviours of top‐level professional English soccer coaches within the practice environment. The Arizona State University Observation Instrument (ASUOI) was used to compile data on four coaches during three phases of a given season. The results indicated that the categories of ‘pre‐instruction’, ‘concurrent instruction’, and ‘post instruction’ represented 54.45 per cent of all the recorded beh…
Racial Participation and Integration in English Professional Basketball 1977-1994
This study investigates racial trends, in terms of participation and integration, in the highest levels of English professional basketball A longitudinal approach is utilized whereby the facial and international compositions of teams and coaching staffs who comprised the First Division of the English National Basketball League during the period 1977-1994 are examined. The findings demonstrate that although a substantial increase in the number of …
Observation, evaluation and coaching
Inspired by ethnomethodological attention to social order, the aim of this paper was to examine the visible, tangible and contextual details of how coaches’ observations, or what coaches actually see, are accomplished in practice. Drawing upon examples from a season long ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of a semi-professional football club, the paper positions coach observation, not as a visual perception, but as a locall…
Slim Bodies, Eating Disorders and the Coach-Athlete Relationship
This study explores the experiences of a former elite swimmer, Anne (a pseudonym), whose career was interrupted and finally terminated by disordered eating. The work is grounded in the need to tell Anne's story in relation to compliance within a culture of slenderness and norms, and the role of the coach within that culture. Using interpretive biography, the data illustrate how the creation of strong athletic identity led to a vulnerable sense of…
Latent learning in the work place
The aim of this study was to investigate the work-based internship experiences of eight student-coaches. This was particularly in terms of what precisely such coaches learned within the practical context, and how they engaged with unexpected situational events. The methods employed within the project included focus group interviews and participant observation. In particular, the student-coaches were both interviewed and observed over the course o…
Canada’s Cooperation in Prohibition Enforcement
Essay| July 01 1930 Canada’s Cooperation in Prohibition Enforcement R. L. Jones R. L. Jones Department of History, University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1930) 32 (4): 712–716. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1930.32.4.712 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
American Opposition to Slavery in Africa
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access R. L. JONES R. L. JONES University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVIII, July 1973, Pages 632–633, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVIII.632 Published: 01 July 1973
Excavation of two Orcadian burnt mounds at Liddle and Beaquoy
ND 464841; HY 301219. Extensive excavation of two 'burnt mounds' suggests that, in Orkney at least, they are the remains of permanent farming settlements. Both mounds covered traces of substantial stone buildings associated with flat-rimmed ware, hammerstones, stone ard-shares, quernstones and flint implements. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence analyses gave dates in the range 1300-100 BC. The discussion includes a detailed survey of the evidenc…
Council of Europe Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Relating to the Custody of Children
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Racial Participation and Integration in English Professional Basketball 1977-1994
This study investigates racial trends, in terms of participation and integration, in the highest levels of English professional basketball A longitudinal approach is utilized whereby the facial and international compositions of teams and coaching staffs who comprised the First Division of the English National Basketball League during the period 1977-1994 are examined. The findings demonstrate that although a substantial increase in the number of …
Ecological Relations in Historical Times
Speed, Aggression, Strength, and Tactical Naïveté
The aim of the study was to analyze whether the language used by television commentators during the coverage of domestic English soccer matches differed according to the race of the player. It was hypothesized that the English television medium constructed negative images of the Black domestic soccer player through the descriptive narratives and metaphors adopted. The methodology was composed of a verbal content analysis (as used by Sabo and coll…
A Deviant Sports Career
The aim of the study was to investigate the largely undisclosed and officially unsanctioned deviant sporting activity of unlicensed boxing in the United Kingdom. A qualitative life history approach was used, whereby an understanding of participant values, perspectives, and motivations was sought through the experiences of a recently retired protagonist. Information was gathered through a series of in-depth, reflexive interviews. Emergent themes i…
It's All About Getting Respect
In light of the paucity of research addressing the critical concerns of social interaction at the micro level of the coaching process, this study aimed to generate an in-depth understanding of the coaching behaviours utilized by a top-level English football coach. A mixed-method approach was used to not only identify the pedagogical behaviours used by the subject in the practice environment, but to also generate an in-depth insight into the ratio…
The Black Experience within English Semiprofessional Soccer
In addressing the wider issue of the Black experience in sport, this study provides an avenue of research into perceived discriminatory practices against Black semiprofessional soccer players and how such practices are dealt with by the players. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 Black players to document their related experiences. Analysis of common emergent themes from the data reveal that the continued existence of stereotypical attitu…
Coach Education and Continuing Professional Development
Research over the last decade has demonstrated that it is experience and the observation of other coaches that remain the primary sources of knowledge for coaches. Despite this, coach education and continuing professional development fail to draw effectively on this experience. Using the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper attempts to understand how the “art of coaching” can be characterized as structured improvisation and how experience is cruci…
Constructing Expert Knowledge
The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth understanding of some of the ways in which one elite soccer coach has constructed, and continues to construct, his professional knowledge. By adopting a life-story approach the paper problematises the predominant rationality of much existing coaching research and questions the role of coach education programmes in the development of coaching knowledge. To accomplish this, the paper focuses on th…
Constructing Images and Interpreting Realities
Through its interpretation of events, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated sport is often seen to be presented within certain ideological discourses which reflect existing power structures. The aim of this study was to investigate this phenomenon through an analysis of the images constructed of the Black soccer player in the UK by television commentators. The methodology employed was two-fold. First, 100 hours of football footage w…
Another bad day at the training ground
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic. We therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners. Second, we tentatively offer the alternative metaphor of ‘orchestration’, derived from research on the management of complex change, …
Slim Bodies, Eating Disorders and the Coach-Athlete Relationship
This study explores the experiences of a former elite swimmer, Anne (a pseudonym), whose career was interrupted and finally terminated by disordered eating. The work is grounded in the need to tell Anne's story in relation to compliance within a culture of slenderness and norms, and the role of the coach within that culture. Using interpretive biography, the data illustrate how the creation of strong athletic identity led to a vulnerable sense of…
Understanding Power and the Coach’s Role in Professional English Soccer
The purpose of this study was to analyze the coaching behaviours of top‐level professional English soccer coaches within the practice environment. The Arizona State University Observation Instrument (ASUOI) was used to compile data on four coaches during three phases of a given season. The results indicated that the categories of ‘pre‐instruction’, ‘concurrent instruction’, and ‘post instruction’ represented 54.45 per cent of all the recorded beh…
Power, Discourse, and Symbolic Violence in Professional Youth Soccer
A sociological analysis was conducted into the collective nature of coaching as manifest in the triangular interaction between coach, athlete, and context within English professional youth soccer. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is predominantly used to interpret data collected ethnographically over the course of a 10-month season. Findings show how an authoritarian discourse is established and maintained, how it is structured by and subsequently str…
Dilemmas, Maintaining "Face," and Paranoia
The purpose of this article is to tell a different, perhaps a "truer," story about coaches and coaching through presenting an autoethnography of the author as a dysfluent coach. The author's tale, which depicts a typical pregame scenario, explores issues associated with maintaining "face" and others' respect in a context characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and power. In addition, within the endnotes, the applicability of the storied genre to…
Coaching redefined
Following a brief introduction, in which the chosen format is discussed, this article comprises a dialogue between present-day coaching science (CS) and a critic, educational relationship (ER). ER disparages current conceptualisations of coaching as irrelevant and implores CS to redefine itself as an educational relationship between coach and athlete, paying particular attention to the micro-interactions that occur between them. Drawing on recent…
Power, consent and resistance
This study builds upon existing socio-cultural work into sports coaching by probing the meanings and varieties of the shared coach–athlete experience. Specifically, the paper utilises an autoethnographic approach in an attempt to chart the complex and dynamic relationship that existed between me, the principal author, as a rowing coxswain and my coach during the preparation for a national rowing championship. Data were drawn from a training diary…
Negotiation and capital
The aim of this paper is to examine how power is given, acquired and used by athletes in the elite sporting context. It focuses on a top-level athlete's reactions to the behaviors of his coaches and how such actions contribute to the creation of a coaching climate, which both influences and ‘houses’ coaching. The paper centers on Sean (a pseudonym), a top-level rower and his preparation for crew selection to the upcoming international regatta sea…
Micropolitical Workings in Semi-Professional Football
This paper seeks to illuminate the micropolitical strategies that Gavin (a pseudonym) used in an attempt to persuade the players, the assistant coach, and the chairman at Erewhon City Football (soccer) Club to “buy into” his coaching program and methods. Data for the study were collected through in-depth, semistructured interviews, and a reflective log relating to those interviews. The interviews were transcribed verbatim with the subsequent tran…
Integrated modelling of climate control and air pollution
Phronetic social science
The aim of this paper is to present the case for phronetic social science as an appropriate lens through which to view sports coaching. In doing so, we firstly define and then elaborate upon the principal concepts contained within phronetic social science as related to complex action, flexibility, moral reflection and power. By locating them within recent coaching research, the case is further made how such concepts can help coaching scholars and…
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