Sports coaching as an ecology of ideas

Muller, Gene

dc.contributor.advisor	Fourie DP
dc.contributor.author	Muller, Gene
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-25T10:54:13Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-25T10:54:13Z
dc.date.issued	2009-08-25T10:54:13Z
dc.date.submitted	2002-01
dc.identifier.citation	Muller, Gene (2009) Sports coaching as an ecology of ideas, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1543>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1543
dc.description.abstract	In this study an ecosystematic approach to sports coaching is forwarded. This approach is illustrated using the analogy of an ecology of ideas. Ideas informing the life span of a coach within an elite team are explored. The researcher engaged four subjects in conversations the life span of a coach in an elite team. these conversations are viewed as co-constructions of realities. The coach abides within a team for a limited time. he or she enters an existing ecology of ideas, which can contribute to, or detract from, the efficacy of the coach in a team. This ecology of ideas evolves as aold meanings shift and new meanings emerge. These menings are explored in this disertation. An awareness of the ecology of ideas within a team can inform the coach to perturb the ecology of ideas in a direction that is mutually qualified as successful	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (vii, 94, 25 leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Sports coaching	en
dc.subject	Teams	en
dc.subject	Systems thinking	en
dc.subject	Cybernetics	e
dc.subject	Ecosystemic epistemology	en
dc.subject	Ecology of ideas	en
dc.subject	Structure determinism	en
dc.subject	Observing system	en
dc.subject	Social construction	en
dc.subject	Mutual qualification	en
dc.subject	Co-construction	en
dc.subject	Perturbation	en
dc.subject	Narrative metaphor	en
dc.subject	Reframing	en
dc.subject	Hermeneutics	en
dc.subject	Thematic analysis	en
dc.subject	Reflexivity	en
dc.subject.ddc	796.077
dc.subject.lcsh	Coaching (Athletics) -- Psychological aspects	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Cybernetics	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Metaphor -- Psychological aspects	en
dc.title	Sports coaching as an ecology of ideas	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Psychology
dc.description.degree	M.A. (Clinical psychology)