Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism

By Julian North

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. In this innovative study, leading coaching researchers explore the philosophical foundations of coaching research, examining the embedded links between policy, practice and the research process, and arguing that the meta-theoretical assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of what coaching is and how it is practiced.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113880410X
• ISBN13: 9781138804104
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"