Gethin Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4493407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gethin Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gethin |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5407-8108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bordering, Connecting, and Dispelling within Sports Coaching: Erasing the Practitioner–Scholar Divide
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: Examining the 'Artful Practices' of Coaching Work
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…
Psychological Significance and Difference Between Tools Use by Humans and Animals: P. Y. Galperin's Dissertation
Psychological Significance and Difference Between Tools Use by Humans and Animals: P. Y. Galperin's Dissertation
Coaches’ perceptions of decision making in rugby union
Background: In team games situations, the ability to make fast and accurate decisions is crucial to performance. As such, effective decision making, characterised by the consistent and efficient ability to choose the right course of action at the right moment, is a key component of match performance in team sports such as rugby union. Previous research has identified pedagogical approaches to enhance decision making. However, there is dearth in r…
Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching
The purpose of this position paper is to promote the interest, usefulness and specificity of a coherent system that is based on psychophenomenology as a theoretical framework [Vermersch, P. (2012). Explicitation et phénoménologie. Paris: PUF], and the explicitation interview [Vermersch, P. (2009). Describing the practice of introspection. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(10–12), 20–57] as an appropriate and original method for studying the su…
Introducing children to rugby: Elite coaches’ perspectives on positive player development
The overall aim of the study was to identify what elite coaches believed were the key components for organised rugby union participation during childhood (7–11 years old). Nine elite male rugby union coaches participated in individual semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis identified the importance of an age-appropriate competitive games pathway, where more specialised skills were built sequentially on top of the foundations of basic evasi…
Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching
The purpose of this position paper is to promote the interest, usefulness and specificity of a coherent system that is based on psychophenomenology as a theoretical framework [Vermersch, P. (2012). Explicitation et phénoménologie. Paris: PUF], and the explicitation interview [Vermersch, P. (2009). Describing the practice of introspection. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(10–12), 20–57] as an appropriate and original method for studying the su…
Coaching and 'Self-repair: Examining the 'Artful Practices' of Coaching Work
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…
Introducing children to rugby: Elite coaches’ perspectives on positive player development
The overall aim of the study was to identify what elite coaches believed were the key components for organised rugby union participation during childhood (7–11 years old). Nine elite male rugby union coaches participated in individual semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis identified the importance of an age-appropriate competitive games pathway, where more specialised skills were built sequentially on top of the foundations of basic evasi…
Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching
The purpose of this position paper is to promote the interest, usefulness and specificity of a coherent system that is based on psychophenomenology as a theoretical framework [Vermersch, P. (2012). Explicitation et phénoménologie. Paris: PUF], and the explicitation interview [Vermersch, P. (2009). Describing the practice of introspection. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(10–12), 20–57] as an appropriate and original method for studying the su…
Coaches’ perceptions of decision making in rugby union
Background: In team games situations, the ability to make fast and accurate decisions is crucial to performance. As such, effective decision making, characterised by the consistent and efficient ability to choose the right course of action at the right moment, is a key component of match performance in team sports such as rugby union. Previous research has identified pedagogical approaches to enhance decision making. However, there is dearth in r…
Psychological Significance and Difference Between Tools Use by Humans and Animals: P. Y. Galperin's Dissertation
Psychological Significance and Difference Between Tools Use by Humans and Animals: P. Y. Galperin's Dissertation
Bordering, Connecting, and Dispelling within Sports Coaching: Erasing the Practitioner–Scholar Divide
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: Examining the 'Artful Practices' of Coaching Work
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…
Psychology (6 works) · Coaching (5 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works)