Tag: coaching studies

This project offers the researcher an opportunity to undertake ground-breaking original research into the evolution of modern sports coaching as a vocation and/or profession. Here Weber’s work on the everyday meaning of profession and of coaching as a calling will be a useful heuristic tool.  The successful candidate will have unparalleled access to a private collection of coaching-related books, magazines, personal diaries, and correspondence letters amassed by a master sports coach.

The Nordic Research Network Women in a Digitized Sports Culture would like to invite you to a one day seminar on women coaches and referees. The seminar includes presentations by internationally renowned experts on women coaches and referees and will provide an arena for engagement between scholars and sports practitioners on the topic of technology and gender equity in coaching and refereeing.

The social sciences – such as sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology, didactics, socio-legal studies – seem to have a rather marginal position in scholarly studies of coaching, whereas behavioral sciences, and especially psychology seem to dominate coaching studies. This special issue has the ambition to challenge and widen the contemporary understanding of the coach and coaching practices, particularly in relation to social issues, influences, culture and changes, by an imperative focus on social science.

This special issue is about formulating ways to apply observational methods to further understanding, changing and/or monitoring coach behaviour and advancing pedagogical applications for coaches. Consequently, we think this is an opportune time to bring researchers’ working in coaching behaviour together through welcoming the submission of methodological, theoretical and empirical papers which offer an original contribution to what we can say we know in this area.

In line with the scope of WSPAJ, an essential element of any submitted manuscript should be to further thought, theory, and research on women in sport. We are particularly interested in articles that further advocacy, thought, theory, and research on women sport coaches. To that end, we welcome qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research submissions that address the pertinent issues.

Coach developer is the umbrella term that describes the varied roles played by personnel engaged in the process of developing coaches. The research and best practices on and for coach developers is sparse, and this special issue of ISCJ aims to stimulate quality sport coaches who in turn use ethical and effective practices with athletes at all levels.

We seek pieces that look at the shifting importance of the coach culturally, that examine representations within various forms of media, and that reflect on inequalities within the coaching profession. In total, this collection seeks pieces that look at the cultural importance of coaches not simply on the field and inside sporting arenas but within the larger cultural, political, and sociological landscapes.