Learning Through Experience: The Influence of Context on the Development of Rugby Coaches’ Beliefs and Practice

DOI

10.2991/erse.2013.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Learning through experience, rugby coaches, beliefs and practice, experience

Abstract

Aim. This article reports on a case study that inquired into how coaches’ beliefs about and dispositions toward coaching that structure their practice were developed through long-term experience. Method. Focused on three coaches working at high performance levels in Victoria, Australia data was generated through three rounds of semi-structured interviews and observation over a three-month period. Results. The three coaches were from three diferent countries with the study highlighting the powerful influence of socio-cultural context on the construction of a coaching habitus and the ways in which it structurted their coaching.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Rémy Hassanin
AU  - Richard L. Light
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TI  - Learning Through Experience: The Influence of Context on the Development of Rugby Coaches’ Beliefs and Practice
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Educational Research and Sports Education (ERSE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 1951-6851
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