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Disability sports coaching: towards a critical understanding
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posted on 2016-04-06, 13:16 authored by Robert Townsend, Brett M. Smith, Christopher CushionChristopher CushionThe growing work that addresses coaching disabled athletes
has thus far failed to engage with the field of disability studies,
and as a result misses a crucial opportunity to develop a
critical understanding of coach learning and practice in
disability sport. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to bridge
the gap between coaching and disability studies and to
review critically the current literature in coaching, in order
to problematise some of the assumptions that underpin
disability coaching research. Disability studies, and in
particular the models of disability, are an important first step
in a critical understanding in disability sport coaching. The
models of disability provide a lens through which researchers,
coach educators and coaches can question how they learn
to coach disabled athletes, interrogate knowledge about
impairment and disability, and critically evaluate coaching
practice. In connecting with disability studies, we hope
to help coaches and researchers make sense of how they
position disability, and appreciate how coaching knowledge
and practice are produced in context. In turn, we feel that
such critical understandings have the potential to develop
nuanced and sophisticated ways of thinking about, and
developing, disability sports coaching.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Sports Coaching ReviewVolume
4Issue
2Pages
80 - 98Citation
TOWNSEND, R.C., SMITH, B. and CUSHION C.J., 2015. Disability sports coaching: towards a critical understanding. Sports Coaching Review, 4 (2), pp.80-98Publisher
© Taylor & Francis (Routledge)Version
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2164-0629eISSN
2164-0637Publisher version
Language
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