Towards a Critical Coaching Curriculum

<p>Author's abstract: This historical case study utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis in order to investigate its availability or absence within American football coaching curriculum outside of the traditional education setting. The study examines texts written by or about football coaches to find where critical pedagogy exists and what it looks like within coaching curriculum. The research attempts to add to the conversation of critical pedagogy, critical theory and their use outside the classroom. Critical pedagogy is investigated in this study in order to add validity to its use within football coaching school curriculum. Critical theory is discussed as a positive element in coaching curriculum and the possibilities of critical theory within football coaching curriculum is demonstrated. During this study three themes were discovered from the texts examined: Capitalism, Power and Goals. This study investigates these texts to demonstrate the influence of these three themes on critical coaching and shows where critical coaching exists currently as well as in the past.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2009

Author dc:creator

• Chadwick, Hunter M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• John Weaver
• Daniel Czech
• Trey Burdette

• ETD
• Physical education and training
• Study and teaching
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1035

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-2068