An autoethnographical account of the impact of a coach education programme in preparing a newly qualified football coach.
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Exworth, Rebecca
Date
2014Type
Thesis
Publisher
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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The primary aim of this research study was to report and investigate how a coach
education programme impacted my preparation as a newly qualified football coach.
An autoethnographical approach was adopted to present personalised accounts of
my actual lived experiences of a Football Association Level 2 Certificate in Coaching
Football. The short personal stories in this paper are based around three main
themes and experiences that occurred whilst I completed the programme. The first
sets of short stories are based on experiences on the coach education programme
that had an impact upon my preparation as a coach. The second set of stories are
based around experiences where the programme attempted to prepare me, as a
coach, for the complex and dynamic nature of the coaching process. The final set of
stories are based on my experiences where I felt I was being encouraged to be an
original and imaginative new coach. The discussion chapter highlights how the
programme had a limited impact on my development and preparation as a football
coach. One of the main reasons for this limited impact on me as a coach was the
emphasis on technical knowledge rather than on information that related to
coaching. The effects of the power relationships that existed on the programme also
had a negative impact on my development and preparation as a coach. My
experiences also highlighted that the programme did not sufficiently prepare me, as
a coach, to be able to work within the complex and dynamic environment that
coaching exists within. Finally, through a general indoctrination approach to
teaching, coach education is not encouraging the production of coaches who are
“imaginative, dynamic and thoughtful” (Cushion et al., 2003, p. 216).
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DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)
SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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