The next logical step? An examination of elite athletes' transitions into post-athletic high-performance coaching roles
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The next logical step? An examination of elite athletes' transitions into post-athletic high-performance coaching roles. / Blackett, Alexander David; Evans, Adam B.; Piggott, David.
Athlete Transitions into Retirement: Experiences in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support. ed. / Deborah Agnew. New York : Routledge, 2021. p. 129-144.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The next logical step? An examination of elite athletes' transitions into post-athletic high-performance coaching roles
AU - Blackett, Alexander David
AU - Evans, Adam B.
AU - Piggott, David
N1 - CURIS 2021 NEXS 308
PY - 2021/8/13
Y1 - 2021/8/13
N2 - This chapter explores the career trajectory between athlete and coach has been regarded by the athletes themselves, fellow coaches and senior sports club directors to not only be a logical progression but one that is seamless. It offers an account of a group of men’s rugby union and football players based in the United Kingdom who negotiated a ‘fast-tracked’ career trajectory into a post-athletic high-performance coaching role. A proceeding theoretical sensitivity phase overviewed coach development studies and the sociological theories that had been utilised in them. Post-positivist theoretical frameworks devised by Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault were found to have been frequently drawn upon to theorise and conceptualise a range of social mechanisms affecting coach efficacy, behaviour and learning for coaches situated across participatory, development and performance contexts. Theorisation of the social processes enacted by academy directors in this instance aligned more to Foucauldian disciplinary concepts of control, surveillance, normativity and docility.
AB - This chapter explores the career trajectory between athlete and coach has been regarded by the athletes themselves, fellow coaches and senior sports club directors to not only be a logical progression but one that is seamless. It offers an account of a group of men’s rugby union and football players based in the United Kingdom who negotiated a ‘fast-tracked’ career trajectory into a post-athletic high-performance coaching role. A proceeding theoretical sensitivity phase overviewed coach development studies and the sociological theories that had been utilised in them. Post-positivist theoretical frameworks devised by Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault were found to have been frequently drawn upon to theorise and conceptualise a range of social mechanisms affecting coach efficacy, behaviour and learning for coaches situated across participatory, development and performance contexts. Theorisation of the social processes enacted by academy directors in this instance aligned more to Foucauldian disciplinary concepts of control, surveillance, normativity and docility.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Elite athletes
KW - Career transition
KW - High-performance coaching
KW - Post-athletic career
KW - Coaching qualifications
KW - Coach pathways
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003020189-14
DO - 10.4324/9781003020189-14
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85114658434
SN - 9780367432867
SN - 9781032047768
SP - 129
EP - 144
BT - Athlete Transitions into Retirement
A2 - Agnew, Deborah
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
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