Full Description
Research Methods in Sports Coaching is a key resource for students and scholars who are completing research into sports coaching. The book comprises five distinct parts that prompt readers to think about important considerations:
preparing and initiating the coaching research process
philosophical considerations for coaching research
coaching research designs
methods of collecting coaching data
analysing coaching data
This fully revised edition places particular emphasis on introducing the diverse research paradigms, research designs, as well as methods of data collection and analysis available to coaching researchers.
Written by a team of leading international scholars and researchers from the UK, Sweden, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, this book bridges the gap between the theory and practice of sports coaching research. The second edition of Research Methods in Sports Coaching is an essential text for any research methods course taken as part of a degree programme in sports coaching or coach education.
Contents
Introduction. Part I: Preparing and initiating the coaching research process. 1. Navigating the research process. 2. Reviewing the literature and formulating topics. 3. Ethical considerations. 4. Judging the quality of coaching research. Part II: Philosophical considerations for coaching research. 5. Philosophy of knowledge. 6. Logical positivism: Quantitative measurement in the study of coaching behaviours, their effects on athletes, and their modification. 7. Interpretivism: Exploring meaning making, intentional action, and group life in coaching research. 8. Critical theory: Social justice approaches to coaching research and practice. 9. Critical realism: Explaining causal mechanisms that underpin events, entities, and (inter)actions in coaching. 10. Poststructuralism: Poststructuralist approaches to sports coaching research. Part III: Coaching research designs. 11. Experimental designs. 12. Case studies. 13. Ethnography. 14. Autoethnography. 15. Phenomenology. 16. Mixed methods research. 17. Action research. Part IV: Methods of collecting coaching data. 18. Systematic observation. 19. Participant observation. 20. Surveys and questionnaires. 21. Individual and focus group interviews. 22. Using documents. Part V: Analysing coaching data. 23. Analysis of quantitative data. 24. Doing qualitative data analysis.
