Provocative, disruptive and re-orientating approaches to sports coaching research

Consterdine, A ORCID: 0000-0002-8564-1960 (2024) Provocative, disruptive and re-orientating approaches to sports coaching research. Sports Coaching Review, 13 (2). pp. 228-239. ISSN 2164-0629

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Abstract

This paper originates from my personal struggles and dissatisfaction with the unproblematic treatment of methodologies, politics, and procedures of doing sports coaching research. In response, I offer a radical counternarrative where I apply disruptive and unorthodox guiding principles of postmodern thought and approaches to fieldwork, analysis, and writing. Although these approaches have received some attention in general sports scholarship (Munslow, 2012; Rail, 1998; Thorpe, 2012), incorporating a full commitment to postmodernist approaches to sports coaching research is still gaining traction. By way of contribution, I have used postmodernism as both a sensibility, and as a set of orientating principles that influences my thinking and encourage a rigorous reflexivity that creates novel ways through which to consider both the research process, and the process of knowledge creation in sports coaching research. I offer these reflections as an illustration of how postmodernism could be adopted as a scaffold for others.

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Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Sports Coaching Review. Consterdine, A. (2024). Provocative, disruptive and re-orientating approaches to sports coaching research. Sports Coaching Review, 13(2), 228–239. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2024.2335072. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - Creative Commons ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports > GV711 Coaching G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports
Divisions:	Sport and Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
Date of acceptance:	20 March 2024
Date of first compliant Open Access:	6 October 2025
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2024 14:43
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2025 08:00
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/21640629.2024.2335072
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24316

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