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Community Sport Coaching and Impression Management
Full text linkThis chapter positions community sport coaching work as a social, interactive performance. It begins by introducing the concept of dramaturgy and Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking work addressing ‘the presentation of the self in everyday life. This background information is then followed by an exposition of some of Goffman’s central dramaturgical concepts and the ways in which they connect with, and could be used to inform, everyday community sport coaching practice. Here, Callum, the last author, provides detailed examples of how he has utilised these dramaturgical concepts to inform the ways in which he performs his community sport coaching role. Finally, the conclusion summarises the central arguments and issues raised in this chapter and provides some critical questions to stimulate your reflection on the dramaturgical dimensions of everyday practice
Emotions, Emotion Norms, and Emotion Management in Community Sport Coaching
No full textEmotions pervade community sport coaching. They are inextricably linked to one’s thought, behaviour, interaction, and patterns of social organisation. This chapter aims to help readers understand and navigate the emotional demands of community sport coaching work. It examines interactionist concepts, including emotion norms, emotional deviance, emotion management, and interpersonal emotion management, to facilitate a critical reflection on emotions in the community sport coaching workplace. Case study examples from Chris Johnston, a full-time community sport coach at a Football in the Community Trust, are provided throughout to spark interest and illustrate how practitioners constantly manage and manipulate their own, or others’, emotional experiences and displays, in order to conform to cultural expectations, impress an audience, avoid sanctions, or accomplish other goals.</p
Political Skill in Community Sport Coaching Work
No full textThis chapter discusses the political skill and exploring why community sport coaches might benefit from developing such social sensibilities. The chapter concludes by considering the place of political skill in the education and continuous professional development of practitioners, including how these interpersonal abilities might be facilitated across the community sport coaching workforce. Ferris et al.‘s political skill framework comprises four distinct but interrelated components, namely social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking ability, and apparent sincerity. Possessing social astuteness could clearly benefit the enactment of community sport coaching work. The chapter argues that political skill is an important but often underrepresented feature of community sport coaching. In the UK - as with many countries - sport gradually became seen as a valid site of public - and thus state - interest, at both elite and recreational level around the middle of the twentieth century.</p
Community Sport Coaching:Policies and Practice
Full text linkIn many Western nations, community sport coaches occupy a central role in supporting the physical health, mental wellbeing, and wider social development of individuals and communities. However, there is no existing academic textbook that examines the policy contexts in which their work is located or, indeed, the challenges and opportunities that are an inherent feature of their everyday practice. Bringing together an international team of leading researchers in sport policy, sport development, sport pedagogy, and sport coaching, as well as some of the best emerging talents, this book is the first to critically consider a range of policy and practice issues directly connected to community sport coaching. Comprehensive, timely, and cutting-edge, no other text brings together in one place such a depth and breadth of scholarly material addressing this important field of endeavour. This book is an essential resource for educators, students, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with community sport coaching globally.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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