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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Cushion, Christopher J.; Jones, Robyn L. – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This article draws on the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to provide an explanatory account of how socialisation and the hidden curriculum within coaching practice contribute toward the formation of social identities and powerful schemes of internalised dispositions. Drawing on a 10 month ethnography within professional football, the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Hidden Curriculum, Athletic Coaches, Team Sports
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Jones, Robyn L.; Bailey, Jake; Santos, Sofia – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
This paper has three principal purposes. The first involves locating the "politics of touch" as related to coaching within Noddings' theory of pedagogical caring. Noddings' framework is presented not so much as a prescription of "good practice", but as a potential way to raise the profile and somewhat problematise the…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Caring, Photography, Visual Aids
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Hemmestad, Liv B.; Jones, Robyn L.; Standal, Oyvind F. – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
The aim of this paper is to present the case for phronetic social science as an appropriate lens through which to view sports coaching. In doing so, we firstly define and then elaborate upon the principal concepts contained within phronetic social science as related to complex action, flexibility, moral reflection and power. By locating them…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Athletic Coaches, Physical Education, Program Development
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Jones, Robyn L.; Wallace, Mike – Sport, Education and Society, 2005
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic. We therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners. Second, we tentatively offer the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Practices, Change Strategies, Educational Change