Sport Coaching Research and Practice

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. In this innovative study, leading coaching researchers explore the philosophical foundations of coaching research, examining the embedded links between policy, practice and the research process, and arguing that the meta-theoretical assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of what coaching is and how it is practiced.

Julian North is a Reader in Sport Coaching in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK

1. A New Approach for Sport Coaching Research 2. Psychologised Approaches to Sport Coaching Research 3. Sociologised Approaches to Sport Coaching Research 4. Disciplinary Agreements and Disagreements About Sport Coaching 5. Interdisciplinarity, Ontology and Critical Realism 6. A Critical Realist Informed Sport Coaching Ontology for Interdisciplinary Thinking and Research: Introducing the ERE Model 7. Undertaking Critical Realist Informed Interdisciplinary Research on Sport Coaching 8. An Ethnographic Case Study of Kayak Slalom Performer Development Coaching 9. Reflections on Sport Coaching and Sport Coaching Research