As issues continue to arise in sport (e.g., concussions, bullying, doping, sexual abuse, analytics), sport coaches must continually undertake a process of education in order to be knowledgeable and well-prepared for situations that arise. During the early years of their coaching careers, sport
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The Education of Sport Coaches: What Should They Learn and When Should They Learn It?
David P. Hedlund, Carol A. Fletcher, Simon M. Pack, and Sean Dahlin
INTERNATIONAL SPORT COACHING JOURNAL DIGEST VOLUME 4, ISSUE #2
Tom Mitchell, A.J. Rankin-Wright, Jason Tee, and Sergio Lara-Bercial
International Sport Coaching Journal Digest Volume 4, Issue #3
A.J. Rankin-Wright, Jason Tee, Tom Mitchell, Ian Cowburn, Kevin Till, and Sergio Lara-Bercial
The Alberta Women in Sport Leadership Project: A Social Learning Intervention for Gender Equity and Leadership Development
Diane M. Culver, Erin Kraft, Cari Din, and Isabelle Cayer
contemporary coaching, particularly in light of the knowledge society in which ongoing learning is necessary to survive. As such CoPs have grown in visibility in sport coaching as they provide more context specific knowledge. Culver and Trudel ( 2006 ) described two examples of social learning that were
Developing Recommendations for European Sport Coaching Policy: The PEAK Project
Louis Moustakas and John Bales
Recent years have seen significant efforts to further our understanding of sport coaching policy in Europe and elsewhere. At the country level, the International Sport Coaching Journal has published an extensive series of national system profiles, including Portugal, Finland, and Ireland ( Chambers
Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Sport Coaches
Anthony Battaglia and Gretchen Kerr
reflections with university professors of sport coaching programs, national sport federations, and national multisport organization directors of coach education. The few researchers who have exclusively examined coaches’ experiences during the pandemic have focused on those working in Latin American and
Coaches’ Perspectives of the Continuing Coach Education Program in the Development of Quality Coach Education in Singapore
Li Quan Warrick Tan and Donna O’Connor
Providing initial coach education and coach development programs is essential to improving the quality of sport coaching ( Cushion et al., 2010 ; Nelson et al., 2006 ; Trudel et al., 2010 ). Recognizing the need to encourage coaches to embark on both certification and continuing professional
Reviewing Original Research Articles Published in the International Sport Coaching Journal
Katherine E. Hirsch, Todd M. Loughead, Gordon A. Bloom, and Wade D. Gilbert
The present commentary, based on a scoping review, provides a summary of the nature of empirical research published in the International Sport Coaching Journal (ISCJ) from its inception in 2014 to 2020. We used a scoping review approach, which is “a form of knowledge synthesis that addresses an
Coaching Effectiveness: A Personal Discourse on Bringing Clarity to an Overused Concept
John Lyle
a set of similar characteristics. Thus, effectiveness in sport coaching is a concept that will represent occurrences that have similar properties, necessitating some agreement on those properties. What is considered significant and distinguishing about effective practice will differ according to the
Who Coaches the Coaches? Exploring the Biographies of Novice Athletics Coach Education Tutors
David Stephens, Anna Stodter, and Matthew Timmis
incorporated through narrative inquiry ( Clandinin, 2006 ; Moen, 2006 ). It is an approach that has been used to represent biographies in teacher education, but less so with sport coaches and tutors ( Wood et al., 2021 ). Narratives are the primary method of constructing meaning through stories, which
