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The adaptation challenges and strategies of immigrant high performance coaches working within the canadian sport system
No full textThe objective of this study was to understand the adaptation challenges and solutions
experienced by immigrant coaches relocated to Canada. Ten high performance immigrant
coaches were recruited, each completing a demographic questionnaire and partaking in an
individual interview, providing insight into their experiences and cultural challenges. Results of
the study were presented under two central themes: a) communication (language barriers and
coach-athlete negotiations), and b) socialization (Canadian sport backdrop and views of sport in
the immigrant coach’s home versus host country). A common adaptation solution was the
importance of social support resources, with the immigrant coaches adjusting with less
acculturative stress when a reciprocal relationship was developed between themselves and those
they worked with. From this preliminary project there is an indication that sport psychology
consultants (SPCs) should work with immigrant coaches, and coaches and athletes of the host
country to foster this bi-directional learning processes, facilitating the coaches’ transition
Differenciations of “enfant” / “child” in the achievement of Gilles Deleuze
No full textThe thesis investigates the paradox of a word, “enfant,” or “child,” in its relation to ten works in the oeuvre of Gilles Deleuze, as produced by him and with others. The paradox is that this word circulates less as this word, “enfant,” than as, in the vocabulary of Différence et répétition (1968), an Idea, whose differential virtuality is multiple, and that differenciates, or actualizes, across the surfaces of these ten texts, repeating in different forms. This differencial circulation can also be read through the vocabularies of Logique du sens (1969) and Qu’est-ce que la philosophie? (1991). Differenciations include: “Dionysos-enfant” (1962); “Alice” of Through the Looking Glass (1969); “devenir-enfant” (with Félix Guattari, 1980); and “enfance du monde” (with Claire Parnet, 1988). The suggestion is developed that actualization of “enfant” for Deleuze also became an act, in that his suicide of 4 November 1995 resonates with both his “Dionysos” and “Alice.
