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Williams, Shaun; Manley, Andrew – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
The primary purpose of this article is to provide an in-depth understanding of the manner in which surveillance technologies have become readily appropriated and utilised by elite Rugby Union coaches. It is conceded that positions adopted by populist writings commonly categorise the act of coaching as an educational activity that harnesses…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Semi Structured Interviews, Coaching (Performance)
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Norman, Leanne – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This study centres upon the accounts of master women coaches based in the UK, exploring how they have individually experienced such acts of resistance as reaching the top of such a male dominated profession. By going beyond previous positivist feminist approaches to this focus of inquiry, I employ a feminist cultural studies framework to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Semi Structured Interviews
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Wahl-Alexander, Zachary; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of negotiations between pupils and preservice teachers (PTs) on PTs' instruction within multi-activity (MA) teaching and sport education (SE). Participants were 17 PTs engaged in a secondary early field experience in which they taught 12-lesson MA and SE soccer units. Data were collected using…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education, Qualitative Research, Teacher Student Relationship
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Strandbu, Åse; Steen-Johnsen, Kari – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This paper explores the role of reflexivity in habituation by contrasting the learning of aerobics and basketball with the acquisition of gendered bodily skills. The discussion is inspired by the paper "So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation," by Noble and Watkins (2003), which represents a…
Descriptors: Habituation, Exercise, Team Sports, Learning
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O'Connor, Justen; Alfrey, Laura – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
The health and physical education (HPE) profession needs to find alternatives to its individualistic and performative focus if it is to remain relevant and meaningful for all learners. This paper presents a way of framing HPE that helps to shift the focus from the individual as autonomous decision-maker, and goes beyond sport and fitness testing…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Education, Athletics, Physical Fitness
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Wang, Lijuan; Ha, Amy S. – Sport, Education and Society, 2012
This study aims to examine the factors influencing pre-service Physical Education (PE) teachers' perception of a specific constructivist approach--Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) in Hong Kong. By adopting a qualitative approach, 20 pre-service PE teachers were recruited for individual semi-structured interviews. Deductive data analysis was…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Interviews, Foreign Countries