Effective Coaching as a Modernist Formation

Denison, Jim; Mills, Joseph P.; Jones, Luke

doi:10.4324/9780203132623.ch31

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“…Throughout the past decade effective coaching has been conceptualised and discussed within the coaching science community in order to answer a central question: What constitutes effective coaching? (Denison, Mills, & Jones, 2013). Previous effective coaching frameworks have mainly focused on coaches' behaviors as leaders and have not further explored the role played by the coaching context (i.e.…”

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Coaching effectiveness within competitive youth football: youth football coaches’ and athletes’ perceptions and practices

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Competitive youth sport can provide solid grounds for positive youth development (PYD). However, there is need to understand if coaches are facilitating these types of outcomes. The purpose of this study was to analyze how competitive youth sport is used to facilitate PYD. The participants in this study were four youth football coaches and 19 adolescent athletes from competitive leagues at north of Portugal. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, field notes and nonparticipant observations. The majority of the coaches communicated appropriately and facilitated positive interactions with youth athletes. Nevertheless, the participants did not implement an explicit approach towards the development of confidence, character, connection and competence (i.e., 4 C's) which has been linked to less PYD outcomes. Performance outcomes in certain moments superseded PYD ones. Moving forward, coaches need to comprehend how they can use their interpersonal knowledge to integrate the 4 C's within competitive youth sport. In certain cases competitive youth sport is automatically linked with positive developmental outcomes such as increase in self-confidence, personal and social development, empathy for others, and physical development (Fraser-Thomas, Côte, & Deakin, 2005). For instance, Lacroix, Camiré, and Trudel (2008) conducted semi-structured interviews with youth coaches who believed their athletes could attain positive developmental outcomes by participating in sport activities. However, these authors also stated coaches had difficulties mentioning strategies and concrete situations used to facilitate youth development that is connected to effective coaching literature. Based on this notion, competitive youth sport has

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Coaching effectiveness within competitive youth football: youth football coaches’ and athletes’ perceptions and practices

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“…Barker-Ruchti & Tinning, 2010;Denison, Mills, & Jones, 2013;Gearity & Mills, 2013;Halas & Hanson, 2001;Heikkala, 1993;Johns & Johns, 2000;Jones, Glintmeyer, & McKenzie, 2005;Shogan, 1999), we believe it is worth considering how anatomo-political power 'reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives' (Foucault, 1980, p. 39). More specifically, we believe an understanding of the effects of anatomo-politics on the body could help coaches rethink many commonly held coaching assumptions and taken-for-granted practices that may be problematic.…”

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Planning for distance running: coaching with Foucault

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2014

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demonstrated how overly controlling and disciplining training practices can objectify athletes' bodies and, as a result, limit and constrain their development. In this paper, we draw on Michel Foucault's (1995) analysis of anatomo-political power, or disciplinary power, to illustrate how distance running coaches could begin to problematize the effects that the use of various disciplinary techniques and instruments can have on athletes' bodies through their everyday planning practices.

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“…As well as undertaking training designed to master the deployment of these technologies with maximum efficiency, it is essential for coaches to also explore the powerful implications of these instruments of surveillance. In line with this suggestion, contemporary Foucauldian coach education scholars also have suggested that working alongside coach educators versed in Foucauldian concepts may allow coaches to develop a more advanced understanding of the potentially dangerous effects of certain unquestioned coaching practices (Denison, Mills, & Jones, 2013). Indeed, Konoval, Denison, and Mills (2018) noted how working alongside a Foucauldian coach developer can help an open-minded coach facilitate new and less limiting ways of coaching that may well be more appropriate for the ethical and sustainable development of athletes across sports.…”

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“…It is clear that there has been significant investment into understanding the way that a performing athletic body moves in order to inform its subsequent development, both in terms of performance outcomes and in terms of injury prevention. As a consequence, the idea of leaving athletes unsupervised is no longer considered an option (Denison, Mills, & Jones, 2013). It is important to note that research into the health implications of wearable GPS devices in professional rugby league (Jones, Marshall, & Denison, 2016) has identified that there are some significant difficulties in maintaining the tension associated with trying to achieve performance benefits while protecting the health of athletes.…”

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Wearable GPS Devices in a British Elite Soccer Academy Setting: A Foucauldian Disciplinary Analysis Of Player Development And Experience

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2019

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Conventional wisdom dictates that the use of GPS surveillance technology in sport to assist athletic performance is an overwhelmingly positive phenomenon. Specifically, the health and performance benefits of the application of GPS and surveillance technologies have been well documented across a range of field sports. Previous research into the developmental implications of GPS surveillance in professional rugby league (Jones, Marshall, & Denison, 2016) has identified that there are some significant unintended consequences of their use for elite athletes. We utilised the disciplinary analysis of Foucault to investigate the experiences of academy soccer players in relation to wearable GPS technology. Five academy players took part in semi-structured group interviews as part of a wider study into the effects of surveillance technologies within an academy setting. We suggest that the now normalised and increasingly ubiquitous use of GPS surveillance technology within this particular British soccer academy is seen as relatively insignificant by its players. However, we also report that GPS use does act to impose discipline on academy players and may well have unforeseen and potentially problematic implications for academy players' development experience.

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Effective Coaching as a Modernist Formation

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Coaching effectiveness within competitive youth football: youth football coaches’ and athletes’ perceptions and practices

Coaching effectiveness within competitive youth football: youth football coaches’ and athletes’ perceptions and practices

Planning for distance running: coaching with Foucault

Wearable GPS Devices in a British Elite Soccer Academy Setting: A Foucauldian Disciplinary Analysis Of Player Development And Experience

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