Browsing by Author "Townsend, Robert C."
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Coaching in disability sport: from practice to theory
(Routledge, 2019-12-17)Understanding the complexity of coaching in disability sport remains a pressing concern. While interest in disability sport continues to grow there is a relative lack of insight into coaching in this context, particularly ... -
Disability sport coaching: "You just coach the athlete, not the disability"
(Routledge, 2020)Disability and parasport provide visibility and representation of disability and disabled people, providing a space where cultural understandings of ‘disability’ can be challenged and reshaped. As a result, disability and ... -
Investigating the alignment between coaches’ ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)The impacts of professional sporting culture and institutional discourse on coaching practices and ideologies have largely been unconsidered and undiscussed. Understanding coaching practice from a social perspective can ... -
‘It’s not about disability, I want to win as many medals as possible’: The social construction of disability in high-performance coaching
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This article draws on the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to provide a critical analysis of the social construction of disability in high-performance sport coaching. Data were generated using a qualitative cross-case ... -
‘Put that in your fucking research’: reflexivity, ethnography and disability sport coaching
(SAGE PublicationsSage, 2020)Reflexivity is continually called for as a marker of quality ethnographic research. In this paper we put reflexivity to ‘work’, providing a critical commentary on data generated through ethnographic fieldwork in high-performance ...
