TY - JOUR
T1 - Workplace learning of high performance sports coaches
AU - Rynne, Steven B.
AU - Mallett, Clifford J.
AU - Tinning, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
Billett (2006) noted that there is a range of perspectives given regarding the influence of agency and structure ranging from accounts where agency is seen as illusory, to perspectives that grant individual autonomy and to perspectives that acknowledge interaction between the two. Billett (2006) himself advocates a consideration of the interdependence between the individual and the social when describing learning through engagement in work practices. The key premise of his work is supported by the findings of this research given the previously described influence of both the affordances of the SIS and the agency of the coaches.
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - The Australian coaching workplace (to be referred to as the State Institute of Sport; SIS) under consideration in this study employs significant numbers of full-time performance sport coaches and can be accurately characterized as a genuine workplace. Through a consideration of the interaction between what the workplace (SIS) affords the individual and the agency of the individual SIS coaches, it is possible to gain an understanding how high performance sport coaches learn in the workplace. Analysis of data collected by means of semi-structured interviews with a group of coaches (n=6) and administrators (n=6), revealed that coaches learned through a variety of sources both within and outside of (but often influenced by) the SIS. In addition, there were a range of factors such as the working climate and the physical environment that were reported to have an impact on the learning of the coaches (structure). In keeping with Billett's (2006) theorizing, aspects of the individuals' agency (e.g. passion for the sport, drive to be the best) were also found to be critical to the learning in the workplace.
AB - The Australian coaching workplace (to be referred to as the State Institute of Sport; SIS) under consideration in this study employs significant numbers of full-time performance sport coaches and can be accurately characterized as a genuine workplace. Through a consideration of the interaction between what the workplace (SIS) affords the individual and the agency of the individual SIS coaches, it is possible to gain an understanding how high performance sport coaches learn in the workplace. Analysis of data collected by means of semi-structured interviews with a group of coaches (n=6) and administrators (n=6), revealed that coaches learned through a variety of sources both within and outside of (but often influenced by) the SIS. In addition, there were a range of factors such as the working climate and the physical environment that were reported to have an impact on the learning of the coaches (structure). In keeping with Billett's (2006) theorizing, aspects of the individuals' agency (e.g. passion for the sport, drive to be the best) were also found to be critical to the learning in the workplace.
KW - Learning
KW - Sport coaching
KW - Sport institute
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U2 - 10.1080/13573322.2010.493312
DO - 10.1080/13573322.2010.493312
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954505797
SN - 1357-3322
VL - 15
SP - 315
EP - 330
JO - Sport, Education and Society
JF - Sport, Education and Society
IS - 3
ER -