Caring in Sports Coaching with Dr Colum Cronin

02/07/24 • 48 min

We are delighted to welcome Dr Colum Cronin (Reader in Sports Coaching and Physical Education, Liverpool John Moores University). Oli and Mike interviewed Colum on his recent book on Care in Sports Coaching. The interview included a discussion on the use of phenomenological approaches in the study of caring in coaching and the implications of caring relationships in learning.
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Link to book: https://www.routledge.com/Care-in-Sport-Coaching-Pedagogical-Cases/Cronin-Armour/p/book/9780367896270
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The theory-practice divide with Prof Robyn Jones, Dr Charles Corsby and Dr Gethin Thomas

In the first episode of season 2, Mike chats with returning guests Prof. Robyn Jones, Dr. Gethin Thomas and Dr. Charlie Corsby about their 2023 paper ‘Bordering, Connecting, and Dispelling within Sports Coaching: Erasing the Practitioner–Scholar Divide’. Here, they discuss traditional views about theory and practice, coaches anti-intellectualism and ways to bring practitioners and scholars together.
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Link to paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/9/201
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Dr Marink Reedijk on Football and Phenomenology

Dr Mike Castle interviewed his close friend Dr Marink Reedijk (Anderlecht Football Futures Head Coach). Marink and Mike relived some of their shared experiences as Doctorate in Sport Coaching students. Marink shared his views about how theory has been informing his coaching practice, everyday coaching challenges, problem solving activities in coaching and the value of mistakes in learning. Also, they discussed the findings in Marink’s thesis, and how a phenomenological approach supported Marink to explore the essence of football coaching.
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Link to thesis: https://figshare.cardiffmet.ac.uk/articles/thesis/_Teach_me_how_to_dance_with_you_A_phenomenological_exploration_to_improve_my_own_football_coaching/14447160
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