Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism

by Julian North

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions.

Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113880410X
• ISBN13: 9781138804104
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"