Learning cultures and cultural learning in high-performance sport: opportunities for sport pedagogues

Barker-Ruchti, Natalie; Barker, Dean; Rynne, Steven; Lee, Jessica

doi:10.1080/17408989.2015.1072512

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“…As Jones, Harris & Miles (2009) points out, the coaches elucidate that mentorship could be in different constellations and contexts, for instance an experienced coach from the club or an official coach educator, which affects the relationship between mentor and protégé. This aligns with the notion of education as socialization, or learning through becoming (Biesta, 2009(Biesta, , 2011Barker-Ruchti, Barker, Rynne & Lee, 2016).…”

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“More Practice-based Courses and Not Just a Load of Papers to Read”: Youth Soccer Coaches Reflections on Coach Education Programs in Sweden

Hertting

2019

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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In Sweden, the formal soccer coach education programs are divided into different levels and are also divided into youth coaching and senior coaching. This paper focuses on youth soccer coaches and their reflections on coach education programs. In the background section the Swedish context is described, as well as current research on coaches’ education and learning. The aim of the paper was to investigate youth soccer coaches’ reflections on coach education programs and to analyse their reflections by using a cultural approach to learning. The empirical material of the paper derives from a web-based questionnaire, posing questions about competence, learning and stress. The coaches were also invited to reflect on the question “how do you believe that soccer associations can educate good coaches?” There were 369 responses, and these were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results indicated reflections about Flexibility in time, place and content, Mentorship supporting informal learning, Demanding mandatory education and emolument, Education focusing on wholeness and Education being based in practice. The conclusion was that decentralization of education and development of coaches’ contexts, abilities and motivation to critically analyse aims and contents of coach education programs are improvement areas for learning and coaching practices.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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“More Practice-based Courses and Not Just a Load of Papers to Read”: Youth Soccer Coaches Reflections on Coach Education Programs in Sweden

Hertting

2019

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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“…According to MacIntyre (1985), however, these interests may lead coaches and athletes to adopt a win-at-all-costs attitude that generates shortcuts and cheating. It is feasible to assume, for instance, that the relatively fixed demands placed on national team coaches to satisfy organizations and stakeholders influence them to adopt coaching methods that result in athletes pushing themselves beyond their physical and mental limits (Barker-Ruchti, Barker, Rynne, & Lee, 2016). Research does indeed show that elite athletes’ experiences of high expectations and competitive pressure increase their vulnerability to burnout, poor mental health, and risk-taking behaviours (Gustafsson, Hassmén, Kenttä, & Johansson, 2008; Hughes & Leavey, 2012; Rice et al, 2016; Safai, Baker, & Fraser-Thomas, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Balancing performance-based expectations with a holistic perspective on coaching: a qualitative study of Swedish women’s national football team coaches’ practice experiences

Lindgren

Barker-Ruchti

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how an exclusive sample of women’s national football team coaches described how they implement careful coaching while facing social and organizational pressure to win medals. Method: To consider coaches’ negotiations, we drew on Noddings’ concept of caring. Using an interpretive research paradigm, we conducted in-depth interviews with five Swedish women’s national football team coaches. An abductive approach was used to simultaneously process the theoretical framework of “ethics of care” and the empirical data. Results: The coaches unanimously adopted a holistic perspective to coaching. The coaching strategies they described included promoting players’ development, well-being, and sustainable elite performance; listening to the players’ voices and engaging in dialogue; and creating a positive environment and promoting fair play. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that the women coaches, despite performance pressure, adopt caring coaching in the form of Noddings’ pedagogical modelling, dialogue, and confirmation strategies, and provide an example of how coaches can adopt caring, holistic, and athlete-centred coaching while working at the highest level of competitive sport and achieving competitive success.

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“…Recently the commodification of sport has advanced to a new level, indeed Barker‐Ruchti et al (, 4) contend that sport now “involves a hegemonic trend based on an industrial society model.” Sport for personal pleasure and social engagement continues, but the dogged pursuit of bigger audiences and greater profits in industrial sport is resulting in extensive spatial restructuring that is producing new geographies at several scales. At the most intimate scale, players’ bodies have become the object of intensive exploitation, including trauma inflicted and drugs ingested.…”

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Regional restructuring of industrial sport: The case of elite hockey player production in British Columbia

Decosse

Norcliffe

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Although ice hockey has been characterized as a “people's sport,” since the 1980s neoliberalism has stimulated elite hockey to take on industrial characteristics, driven by: the commodification of sport; a growing scale of hockey performance; the branding of teams and cities; a strategic coupling with media; and the privatization of training and facilities. In British Columbia, elite hockey players are being produced in new regional settings. Formerly, many elite players came from smaller resource‐hinterland towns offering strong local support. With neoliberal commodification of the sport, the Lower Mainland has emerged as the main centre of elite player production in British Columbia. This has occurred very rapidly as costly private training programs located mostly in larger metropolitan areas have become the main source of young players aspiring to elite status. High‐performance training companies and private hockey academies offer costly routes to elite player status, with new class relations that exclude low‐income families. A range of internal and external scale economies lead to these new facilities being concentrated in larger conurbations, particularly in Greater Vancouver.

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Learning cultures and cultural learning in high-performance sport: opportunities for sport pedagogues

Cited by 26 publications

References 55 publications

“More Practice-based Courses and Not Just a Load of Papers to Read”: Youth Soccer Coaches Reflections on Coach Education Programs in Sweden

“More Practice-based Courses and Not Just a Load of Papers to Read”: Youth Soccer Coaches Reflections on Coach Education Programs in Sweden

Balancing performance-based expectations with a holistic perspective on coaching: a qualitative study of Swedish women’s national football team coaches’ practice experiences

Regional restructuring of industrial sport: The case of elite hockey player production in British Columbia

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