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No Practice Can Ever Be the Right Practice No Practice Can Ever Be the Right Practice
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26 Sport, Coaching, and Performance
Get accessJim Denison is a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the formation of coaches’ practices through a poststructuralist lens. Along with his numerous book chapters and referred articles, he edited Coaching Knowledges: Understanding the Dynamics of Performance Sport (2007) and coedited Moving Writing: Crafting Movement in Sport Research (2003). He serves on the editorial board of Sports Coaching Review and was coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching (2013).
Zoë Avner is a lecturer in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University. Her current research draws on poststructuralist and feminist methodologies to explore athlete and coach learning and coaching ethics. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Sports Coaching Review and Sport, Education and Society.
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Published:21 September 2022
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For any coach, a daily concern is always: What should I have the athletes I coach do in practice to achieve our performance objectives? While seemingly straightforward, what can make this question difficult for coaches to answer is the entangled multiplicity of forces and “knowledges” that shape coaches’ decision-making. As a result, what coaches have their athletes do in practice was more accurately described by Foucault, as “a series of discontinuous segments whose tactical function is neither uniform or stable … but can come into play in various strategies.” And it is the “effects” that these various strategies can have on athletes’ performance capabilities which are the focus of this chapter. More specifically, the chapter argues for the importance of coaches questioning many of their “normal” training practices in an effort to enhance their athletes’ performances.
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