Making Foucault coach
Turning post-structural assumptions into coaching praxis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23200745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Mills (0000-0002-3295-4744, University of Denver, corresponding author), Joseph P Mills (University of Denver), Brian Gearity (0000-0003-3229-5117, University of Denver), Clayton Kuklick (0000-0002-0728-8508, University of Denver), Jordan Bible (University of Denver) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192-212 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sports Coaching Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2164-0629 • E-ISSN: 2164-0637 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21640629.2022.2057696 |
| OpenAlex | W4220983123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
Foucauldian-inspired coaching practices have been a recent focus in the Foucauldian coaching studies literature. There can be no denying the emergence of a number of ethical coaching practices in synergy with Foucault’s work, yet in most coaches’ everyday practices there appears to have been little uptake. Accordingly, our central concern in this paper is considering how Foucault’s work could become a more deliberate feature of coaching. Using Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigms, we argue that more significant change is yet to occur because coach education does not include the post-structural paradigmatic assumptions underpinning Foucault’s work. As a result, coaches immersed in a modern disciplinary logic may interpret Foucauldian-inspired practices through incommensurable assumptions. In this paper, we develop numerous post-structural assumptions into coaching post-structural praxis (CPSP) to demonstrate what those assumptions mean for coaches’ knowledge and practice.
Coaching · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Judgement · Pedagogy · Praxis · Social science · Sociology · Underpinning · Work (physics) · Coaching Methods and Impact · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Michel Foucault
Qualitative Research for Physical Culture
The Making of High Performance Athletes
Coach Education and Continuing Professional Development
The Nature of a Paradigm
Kinesiology's Inconvenient Truth and the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative
Visions of social control
Coaching and ethical self-creation
Social Theory for Coaches
Manifesto of the Communist Party
The Subject and Power
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Sports’ disciplinary legacy and the challenge of ‘coaching differently’
New Movement Practices
Discipline and Excel
Making Weight
How power moves
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |