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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sport coaching"”.
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Managing More Than Just Athletes: Impression Management Among Canadian High-Performance Sport Coaches
… provides a snapshot of the lack of diversity in sport coaching, there remain gaps in understanding the experiences of individuals who are struggling to work as coaches in the Canadian high-performance sport system because of their racialized and gendered identities. This study aims to address …
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Exploiting Social Learning as a Legitimate Tool in Coach Development
… aim of this thesis was to contribute to current sport coaching research, knowledge and practice on how socially mediated learning activities can influence both coach behaviour and learning for better and for worse, as well as how coach developers might better exploit them as a legitimate tool in …
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Die stand van sportafrigting in prioriteitsportsoorte by skole in die Dr. Kenneth Kaunda streek van die Noordwes Provinsie
Professionalism in sport and the standard of world-class performance is on the rise. The development of a country's sporting potential therefore is crucial (Martindale et al., 2007:187). In South African schools, sport is widely regarded as the basis of elite sport (Rajput & Van Deventer, …
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ESTABLISHING A VALID AND RELIABLE COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT FOR GYMNASTICS COACH CERTIFICATION
… in Canada are trained through the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) administered by The Coaching Association of Canada. The NCCP is the national standard and recently shifted its educational emphasis from the transfer of knowledge to the development of coaching competency. As a …
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Understanding Coaching As A Judgement and Decision Making Process: Implications For Coach Development Practice
… I am interested in two broad questions; what is coaching and how do we develop it? Surprisingly after nearly forty years of coaching research there is no agreed answer to these questions in the literature. This is perhaps not that surprising since other more established roles such as teaching are …
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A mixed methods exploration of the gendered perspectives of female sports coaches
… may have influenced the experiences of female sport coaches. An unstructured interview was conducted to investigate the effect of gender across a coach’s career.<br/> This thesis has contributed to the body of knowledge concerning how female coaches are perceived and female coaches’ experiences …
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Beyond incredible: The Paralympic road to Rio - an ethnographic study
… included examination of the influence of sport in the lives of those involved in elite adaptive sport, greater examination of barriers and facilitators to participation for those involved in elite sport, issues related to and relevant to healthcare providers and coaches, and the …
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Exploring the Influence of a Solution-focused Coaching Intervention on Coach Communication Skills and Athlete Self-actualization: An Action Research Study
… intervention with a female interuniversity sport team, aimed to disrupt the dominant sport discourses that contribute to harmful coach behaviour, athlete compliance and docility. The research questions included: (i) Do solution-focused coaching skills improve the communication …
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Efektivní práce sportovního manažera
… bakalářská práce popisuje kvality a nedostatky sportovních manažerů. Obsahuje teoretické poznatky, analýzu zkoumaného souboru, vyhodnocení a doporučení každému sportovnímu manažerovi.
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The Experience of Christian Prayer in Coaching: A Qualitative Investigation
… Relying on God's Guidance and Plan, The Roles of Coaching, Prayer Types, and Personal Faith not Forced. Each theme except Personal Faith not Forced was comprised of two or more subthemes. Implications from this study may benefit coaches, athletes, sport psychology consultants, and those who may …
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Evaluating Coaches’ Program Delivery in Golf Canada’s Learn to Play Program
… Using the Program Quality Assessment in Youth Sport observational measure (Bean, Kramers, Camiré, Fraser-Thomas, & Forneris, 2018), Article Two quantitatively examined program quality with two groups of coaches (N = 14; Mage = 40) for two purposes: (a) to examine whether implementation of the …