Tag: Sanna Erdoğan

Natalie Barker-Ruchti & Laura G. Purdy’s edited volume Sports Coaching Education and Alternative Pedagogies: Approaches in Higher Education (Routledge) theorizes alternative pedagogies and presents examples of what such teaching looks like in sports coaching higher education. Sanna Erdoğan’s review provides a comprehensive overview of each chapter in the book and concludes with suggestions of the book’s potential contributions to the field of higher education, accompanied by a set of reflective observations intended to stimulate further consideration and dialogue.

Coaching Stories: Navigating Storms, Triumphs, and Transformations in Sport, edited by Stiliani “Ani” Chroni, Peter Olusoga, Kristen Dieffenbach & Göran Kenttä (Routledge) unveils the storms and triumphs of coaching in the form of case studies. According to Sanna Erdoğan, this is a long-awaited contribution to the field of coaching by coach educators and developers. By no means uncritical, our reviewer still deems it as paramount to scholars looking for practical considerations when discussing coaching and to people willing to change traditional norms or expand their knowledge of coaching practices.

Sanna Erdoğan is a PhD scholar at Lapland University in Finland. With long experience as a boxing coach, her dissertation project investigates the identification of competition-level coaches’ competence and examines what kind of know-how is required to get qualification as a coach. In this feature article she briefly overviews three themes from her doctoral study: masculinities in sports culture, practical traditions of coaching, and respect for winning, and discusses preliminary findings that influence the possibility of being a coach.

Egil Trasti Rogstad’s doctoral thesis focuses on gendered power relations and inequality in sports-themed esports (esports based on sports simulation games). The male domination in traditional sports seem to be prevailing in the world of sports gaming. We invited Sanna Erdoğan, a feminist scholar in the field of sports coaching to read and review the thesis, and she does a thorough job of it, weighing the arguments and findings against the preconceived notions often associated with sex, gender and sports.