Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer

Miller, Paul K.; Cronin, Colum; Baker, Graham

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2015.1012544

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“…free skiers, Nyberg, 2015). Further, sport coaching studies have provided an interpretative phenomenological account of community sport and youth performance coaching (Cronin & Armour, 2015;Miller, Cronin, & Baker, 2015).…”

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Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching

Mouchet

Morgan

Thomas

2018

Sport, Education and Society

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The purpose of this position paper is to promote the interest, usefulness and specificity of a coherent system that is based on psychophenomenology as a theoretical framework (Vermersch, 2012), and the explicitation interview (Vermersch, 2009) as an appropriate and original method for studying the subjective lived experience of participants in sport situations. This original approach is associated with an epistemological posture which accords significant importance to the first-person point of view (i.e. what is appearing to a person about his own subjective lived experience in a past situation). After presenting some limitations in other phenomenological approaches and interview methods, we present the specificity of the theoretical background and the method of explicitation interview, for describing in detail the actions and understanding of the lived experience of a person in a past and singular situation. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, we provide two specific examples of explicitation interview data from an in-match player decision-making situation and an in-game half-time speech of a coach. In concluding, we contend that psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview present new perspectives and opportunities for coach education, by developing the analysis of the subjective lived experience. This may have important implications for sport related research and the development of coaching practice and formal coach education, through closer links to real life experiences.

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Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching

Mouchet

Morgan

Thomas

2018

Sport, Education and Society

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“…"Well, we try and have a relationship that goes beyond the club…the full-time model [Full time education model, see Premier League, 2011] helps manage things with school more efficiently when we have the boys signed, but before that it's a full-time job for someone to keep on top of those we're showing interest in…sometimes we just can't, it becomes a missing piece of the jigsaw at that moment in time." (Recruitment staff 16) Data suggest that looking at the whole player meant considering factors that could affect performance and development of junior-elite footballers, which went beyond physical, physiological, technical, and tactical abilities (Miller, Cronin & Baker, 2015). 46 However, whilst players are in the process of being identified, being able to access some of these data sources may be problematic.…”

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The nature and function of talent identification in junior-elite football in English category one academies

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The focus of this study was to examine the nature and function of talent identification in category one football academies in the UK. Data were collected from three participant groups: heads of recruitment (n=12), recruitment staff (n=18), and scouts (n=7). Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews, conducted either face-to-face or via Skype®. Four themes emerged from the data: 1) league structures in junior grassroots football; 2) reflective practice; 3) looking at the whole player; and 4) luck. The paper concludes by suggesting that there are issues that need to be considered by the football association, county football associations, and clubs. Those issues include the organisation of leagues in junior football, the education of scouts and recruitment staff around reflective practice and understanding how to identify psycho-social attributes whilst identifying talent.

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“…Indeed, for some time now, coaching literature and prescribed practice have been criticised for oversimplification, reductionism, and a failure to recognise the social and cultural influences upon coaching (Cushion, Armour, & Jones, 2006). Legislative literature is therefore mostly divorced from the grounded realities of coaching practice as lived by the coaches themselves, and the context in which they exist (Miller, et al, 2015;Miller & Cronin, 2013;Cronin & Armour, 2013).…”

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“…youth national teams. There are few phenomenological accounts of youth performance coaching, although Christensen (2009), and Miller, Cronin and Baker (2015) provide related studies on talent identification. In addition, Cronin and Armour (2013) provide a phenomenological account of community sport coaching.…”

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‘Being’ in the coaching world: new insights on youth performance coaching from an interpretative phenomenological approach

Cronin

Armour

2015

Sport, Education and Society

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Since Heidegger's influential text; Being and Time (1927/2005), the phenomenological question of what it means to 'be' has generated a vast body of work. This paper reports data from a phenomenological study that investigated what it means to 'be' a youth performance coach. An overview of the interpretive phenomenological methods used (Van Manen, 1990) is followed by presentation of coaches and data. Data analysis resulted in the identification of three constituent 'essences' of youth performance coaching: (i) care; (ii) a commitment to educate athletes authentically for corporeal challenges to come; and (iii) working with others to achieve a specialised corporeal excellence. The three identified essences manifest themselves in a broad lifeworld that includes settings on and off the field of play. Given the very different insights into the practice of coaching that emerge from this study, we argue it would be useful for future studies of coaching practice and coach education to extend their focus to take into account coaches' wider lives both on and off the field of play. We also argue for further exploration of coaching by drawing on phenomenological concepts such as care and relationality.

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Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer

Cited by 44 publications

References 56 publications

Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching

Psychophenomenology and the explicitation interview for accessing subjective lived experience in sport coaching

The nature and function of talent identification in junior-elite football in English category one academies

‘Being’ in the coaching world: new insights on youth performance coaching from an interpretative phenomenological approach

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