Opportunities to interpret: a methodological discussion of insider research, perceptions of the researcher, and knowledge production

Wiser, Melissa C.

doi:10.1080/17430437.2016.1221927

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“…That said, the work of bridging theory and practice demanded intentional boundary crossing and reflexivity. Consistent with current understandings of insider research (Wiser, 2018 ), the IR faced an ongoing challenge to negotiate tensions in their dual position as lead trainer and researcher. For instance, the IR was employed as a part-time contractor with pre-identified research expertise in theories of learning.…”

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Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand

Walters¹,

Minjares²,

Bradbury³

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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This paper provides insight into the evolution of a project designed to address longstanding adult attitudes and behavioural issues in junior and youth sport in New Zealand. The project was funded by Sport New Zealand (Sport NZ) and implemented by Aktive, a charitable trust that works with national and regional partners to fund and deliver community sport in Auckland. Aktive collaborated with a team of junior and youth sport researchers, adopting a pragmatic, mixed methods design-based research (DBR) approach to co-design an educational delivery framework aimed at influencing attitudes and assumptions underpinning coaches, parents, and community sport leaders' behaviours. Transformative learning principles informed the delivery framework with the project reaching 4,222 participants. Research evaluations included multiple case studies, surveys, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups, which confirmed awareness of problematic beliefs. The programme expanded to Regional Sport Organisations (RSOs) and National Sport Organisations (NSOs) culminating in a nationwide rollout. The study highlights the effectiveness of theoretically informed adult behaviour change programmes in junior and youth sport, the benefits of programmes being underpinned by a rigorous pedagogical approach, and the benefits of sport organisations and researchers collaborating to design and deliver sustainable change initiatives that address belief systems underpinning current issues.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand

Walters¹,

Minjares²,

Bradbury³

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…This insider status comes with many important considerations. As Wiser (2018, 215) asserts, “a researcher’s multiple group and professional affiliations, whether consciously employed or tacitly assumed, impact the knowledge that is shared and produced.” In other words, my own beliefs and knowledge, which have been influenced by many years as an OSSTF local leader and secondary school teacher, will inform the work presented here and potentially leave me open to criticisms of bias. However, I make the case that despite this risk, I am in a position to offer a valuable and unique perspective because of my deep understanding of and experience with the complexities of Ontario teacher union structures, organization, practices, policies, processes, and even terminologies.…”

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Austerity, Struggle, and Union Democracy: Bill 115 and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, an Insider View

Mancini

2020

Labor Studies Journal

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In 2012, unions representing teachers and education workers in Ontario, Canada, were faced with Bill 115, legislation used by the provincial government to impose a collective agreement upon education workers and remove their right to strike. With a specific focus on the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, this paper is an insider view of how Bill 115 and the external political contexts of the time affected Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation’s internal democratic practices at the height of the struggle. It employs theories of union democracy in order to consider how external forces can shape teacher unions’ internal democracy, and how the competing pressures faced by union leaders can impact their actions and decisions. This paper takes the view that internal union democracy is an important consideration in teacher unions’ resistance to government austerity agendas.

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“…Mentoring in sport is a culturally and contextually bound activity, with aspects such as 'credibility', 'technical knowledge', 'understanding the environment', and 'domain specific knowledge' influencing the process (Sawiuk et al, 2018). Moving forward, sports coaching scholars should consider the use of critical and self-reflexive research methods, such as insider research (Wiser, 2018), autoethnography, and duoautoethnography or collaborative autoethnography (McMahon, 2016). These methods will help to explore both mentors' and mentees' social norms or issues within personal accounts of mentoring, as part of a constellation, to help facilitate dialogue and empathy whilst influencing political and pedagogical practice.…”

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Reviewing the sports coach mentoring literature: a look back to take a step forward

Leeder

Sawiuk

2020

Sports Coaching Review

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This article takes a look back, in order to take a step forward, for sports coach mentorship within both academia and practice. Consequently, this article aims to review the contemporary trends within the sports coach mentoring literature and beyond to build upon earlier foundations.Throughout, four areas of significance are identified: (1) A sociocultural analysis of sports coach mentorship; (2) multiple-mentors and developmental networks; (3) developing sports coach mentors; and (4) gender and role models. The existing literature within each area is introduced, analysed, and critiqued, before an innovative future research agenda is established. Whilst mentorship is regularly utilised within sports coaching, the practice remains undertheorised and conceptually vague.Therefore, this literature review attempts to reconstruct sports coach mentorship by highlighting gaps in our knowledge and instigating innovative research agendas to produce contextually and culturally bound empirical evidence. Thus, this article advances our understanding of mentoring practice within sports coaching.

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Opportunities to interpret: a methodological discussion of insider research, perceptions of the researcher, and knowledge production

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand

Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand

Austerity, Struggle, and Union Democracy: Bill 115 and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, an Insider View

Reviewing the sports coach mentoring literature: a look back to take a step forward

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