Using Ethnography in Applied Sport Psychology

Krane, Vikki; Baird, Shannon M.

doi:10.1080/10413200590932371

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“…, 42]. Beyond techniques to address trustworthiness, decentred theory's emphasis on inductive then recentred analyses aligns with study's context and purposes and, of equal importance, social constructionism's major tenets (i.e., consensus of multiple realities) [27,28]. By interviewing multiple stakeholders with varied roles, responsibilities, and relationships and including all voices in the results, a number of pertinent perceptions are also comparatively represented.…”

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Culture Change in a Professional Sports Team: Shaping Environmental Contexts and Regulating Power

Cruickshank

Collins

Minten

2013

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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Although high performing cultures are crucial for the enduring success of professional sport performance teams, theoretical and practical understanding of how they are established and sustained is lacking. To develop knowledge in this area, a case study was undertaken to examine the key mechanisms and processes of a successful culture change programme at English Rugby Union's Leeds Carnegie. Exploring the change process from a 360 degree perspective, semi-structured interviews were conducted with team management, one specialist coach, six players, and the CEO. Analysed and explained through decentred theory, results revealed that culture change was effectively facilitated by team management: a) subtly and covertly shaping the physical, structural, and psychosocial context in which support staff and players made performance-impacting choices, and b) regulating the 'to and fro' of power which characterises professional sport performance teams. Decentred theory is also supported as an effective framework for culture change study.

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Culture Change in a Professional Sports Team: Shaping Environmental Contexts and Regulating Power

Cruickshank

Collins

Minten

2013

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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“…[21,22,25] The reflective diary and the informal field notes were continually developed in an attempt to capture the context, culture and practice of the FitC schemes and subsequent opinions and perceptions of all involved. [26,27] Physical Activity Child centred research techniques were adopted in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the physical activity behaviour and lifestyle changes for each child participant across the intervention. The child centred approach ensured that the children were viewed as competent social actors as opposed to being consumed within the family unit.…”

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Football in the community schemes: exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change

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This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League Football Club's Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children. Specifically, exploring the effectiveness of this intervention from the perspectives of the participants involved (i.e., the researcher, teachers, children and coaches). A range of data collection techniques were utilised to including the principles of ethnography (i.e., immersion, engagement and observations). Alongside conducting focus groups with the children. The results allude to merely 'keeping active children active' via (mostly) fun, football sessions. Results highlight the important contribution the 'coach' plays in the effectiveness of the intervention. Results relating to working practice (i.e., coaching practice and coach recruitment) are discussed and highlighted as areas to be addressed.FitC schemes appear to require a process of positive organisational change to increase their effectiveness in strategically attending to the health agenda.

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“…For Whaley and Krane (2011), and Krane and Baird (2005), these cannot be intermingled capriciously. At this level, various paradigms (e.g., positivism and constructivism) as belief systems informed by very different ontological and epistemological assumptions are deemed by some to be incommensurable (Denzin, 2010;Hesse-Beber 2010;Lincoln, 2010;Lincoln, Lynham and Guba, 2011).…”

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Developing mixed methods research in sport and exercise psychology: Critical reflections on five points of controversy

Sparkes

2015

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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Objectives: To stimulate debate in sport and exercise psychology about the nature of mixed methods research as currently practiced and how this approach might develop in the future.Design: An exploration of five points of controversy relating to mixed methods research. Results:The examples provided of mixed methods research in action indicate that a number of problematic issues regarding both process and product have been neglected. Conclusions.Mixed methods research offers a number of conceptual, practical and pedagogical challenges that need to be addressed if this form of inquiry is to develop its full potential in sport and exercise psychology.Keywords: mixed methods, paradigms, integration, criteria, power.Developing mixed methods research 3 Developing Mixed Methods Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: Critical Reflections on Five Points of ControversyIn a decade review (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009) of qualitative research in three leading sport psychology journals, that included Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Culver, Gilbert and Sparkes (2012) found that a total of 57 articles used mixed methods, which accounted for 31.1% of the articles classified as qualitative in their selected sample. Of these 57 mixed methods articles, '25 employed open-ended questions within a survey or test; 23 used tests and interviews; and 10 used systematic observation in conjunction with interviews ' (p. 265).This suggests a growing acceptance of mixed methods research (MMR) in the field.Moran, Matthews and Kirby (2011) propose that MMR 'has much to offer sport and exercise psychology researchers who believe that quantitative and qualitative methods may be combined effectively ' (p. 367). The benefits proposed for undertaking a mixed methods study according to Doyle, Brady and Byrne (2009) The views of Mason (2006) suggest that researchers in sport and exercise psychology are well advised to approach MMR with caution. Rich and critical debates within the social sciences about MMR show it is best viewed as a contested and ambiguous concept (Gill, 2011;Johnson, Onwuegbuzie & Turner, 2007;Whaley & Krane, 2011). Cresswell (2011), a leading advocate of MMR, highlights an extensive range of controversies in an emerging field that include the following: basic issues of the legitimacy and meaning, philosophical underpinnings, and the pragmatics of conducting a mixed methods study. These controversies, he argues, need to be squarely placed on the table for discussion and their presence honoured. In this article, therefore, I offer some critical reflections on five points of controversy with the aim of stimulating dialogue within the sport and exercise psychology Developing mixed methods research 5 community about what MMR is, how it is currently practiced, how it might be developed in the future, and the pedagogical challenges that flow from all of this.,Gaining an understanding of MMR as an emerging field is difficult. The term 'mixed methods' has multiple meanings depending on the st...

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Using Ethnography in Applied Sport Psychology

Cited by 151 publications

References 24 publications

Culture Change in a Professional Sports Team: Shaping Environmental Contexts and Regulating Power

Culture Change in a Professional Sports Team: Shaping Environmental Contexts and Regulating Power

Football in the community schemes: exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change

Developing mixed methods research in sport and exercise psychology: Critical reflections on five points of controversy

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