Leeder, Thomas and Cushion, Christopher (2020) The reproduction of ‘coaching culture’: a Bourdieusian analysis of a formalised coach mentoring programme. Sports Coaching Review, 9 (3). pp. 273-295. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2019.1657681
Leeder, Thomas and Cushion, Christopher (2020) The reproduction of ‘coaching culture’: a Bourdieusian analysis of a formalised coach mentoring programme. Sports Coaching Review, 9 (3). pp. 273-295. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2019.1657681
Leeder, Thomas and Cushion, Christopher (2020) The reproduction of ‘coaching culture’: a Bourdieusian analysis of a formalised coach mentoring programme. Sports Coaching Review, 9 (3). pp. 273-295. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2019.1657681
Abstract
Despite its positive rhetoric, formalised coach mentoring can be problematic due to the institutional agendas of National Governing Bodies (NGB), with mentoring functioning as a method to reproduce organisational cultures and beliefs. This research attempted to explore this issue in greater depth by critically analysing a formalised coach mentoring programme. Fourteen mentors and four mentees participated in semi-structured interviews to discuss their experiences of an NGB’s formalised mentoring programme. Analysed through a Bourdieusian lens, the findings present formalised coach mentoring as a source of cultural reproduction, where mentors embodied a group habitus that reinforced the NGB’s dispositions and beliefs towards coaching practice. Mentors strived to inculcate mentees and rework their habituses to align with the field’s doxa through a process of pedagogic action, with symbolic capital proving influential in reproducing coaching ideologies. NGBs should begin to critically analyse their coach mentoring provision to maximise opportunities for mentee learning and development.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Formalised mentoring, sports coaching, Bourdieu, coach education, reproduction, coach learning |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2021 12:33 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 14:14 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/29734 |
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