- Title
- Dispositions of elite-level Australian rugby coaches towards game sense : Characteristics of their coaching habitus
- Creator
- Light, Richard; Evans, John
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/61020
- Identifier
- vital:5084
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.593506
- Identifier
- ISSN:1357-3322
- Abstract
- Bourdieu's analytic concept of habitus has provided a valuable means of theorising coach development but is yet to be operationalised in empirical research. This article redresses this oversight by drawing on a larger study that inquired into how the 'coaching habitus' of elite-level Australian and New Zealand rugby coaches structured their interpretation and use of the Game Sense approach to coaching to illustrate how habitus can be operationalised. It focuses on the identification of characteristics of the individual coaching habitus of four elite-level Australian rugby coaches and how they shape their interpretation and use of Game Sense. Drawing on suggestions made by Lau, we identify the characteristics of four individual 'coaching habitus' by examining their views on: (1) the characteristics of good coaches; (2) characteristics of great rugby players and how to develop them; and (3) their dispositions towards innovation in coaching. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
- Relation
- Sport, Education and Society Vol. 18, no. 3 (2013), p. 407-423
- Rights
- Copyright 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Coach development; Coach learning; Game Sense; Habitus; Rugby coaching
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