Learning Through Experience: The Influence of Context on the Development of Rugby Coaches� Beliefs and Practice

Abstract

-Aim. This article reports on a case study that inquired into how coaches' beliefs about and dispositions toward coaching that structure their practice were developed through long-term experience. Method. Focused on three coaches working at high performance levels in Victoria, Australia data was generated through three rounds of semi-structured interviews and observation over a three-month period. Results. The three coaches were from three diferent countries with the study highlighting the powerful influence of socio-cultural context on the construction of a coaching habitus and the ways in which it structurted their coaching.