Coach Education in Field Hockey: A Critique

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Morris, Sam
Date
2014Type
Thesis
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Cardiff Metropolitan University
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The aims of the study were to provide an insight into coach education programmes in
hockey. Previous research had highlighted strengths and weaknesses of formal and
informal coach education practices, the literature outlined the requirements of
successful coaching, emphasising the high level of understanding and competency
required to be an efficient coach. The study consisted of five semi structured
interviews with coaches who had been through NGB coach education qualification in
hockey, and who were currently active hockey coaches at the time of the study.
Participants exposed positive and negative experiences of coach education and their
justification for these opinions. Key findings suggest that (i) coach education courses
were lacking relevant information; they were seen as being generic and unspecific,
there was a calling from the coaches for a more hockey specific coach education
experience, (ii) that the coach educators play a crucially important role in the coach
education delivery and as a direct result of this, the success of the course, (iii) coach
education courses in hockey are seen as an integral and necessary part of a
coaches development. Findings establish that significant changes should be made to
the course content and course delivery, eradicating the existing issues to enable a
more hockey specific, reality relevant coach education experience, ultimately
resulting in improved coaching effectiveness throughout the game leading to
consistently increased levels of performance.
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DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)
SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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