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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 Cushion
The 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.

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Sports Coaching Review

Volume

4

Issue

2

Pages

80 - 98

Citation

TOWNSEND, R.C., SMITH, B. and CUSHION C.J., 2015. Disability sports coaching: towards a critical understanding. Sports Coaching Review, 4 (2), pp.80-98

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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  • NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This paper is Closed Access.

ISSN

2164-0629

eISSN

2164-0637

Language

  • en

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