Miller, Paul K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5611-1354
and Cronin, Colum
(2013)
Rethinking the factuality of “contextual” factors in an ethnomethodological mode: Towards a reflexive understanding of action-context dynamism in the theorisation of coaching.
Sports Coaching Review, 1
(2).
pp. 106-123.
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Abstract
In this paper, an argument is made for the revisitation of Harold Garfinkel's classic body of ethnomethodological research in order to further develop and refine models of the action-context relationship in coaching science. It is observed that, like some contemporary phenomenological and post-structural approaches to coaching, an ethnomethodological perspective stands in opposition to dominant understandings of contexts as semi-static causal ‘variables’ in coaching activity. It is further observed, however, that unlike such approaches – which are often focused upon the capture of authentic individual experience – ethnomethodology operates in the intersubjective domain, granting analytic primacy to the coordinative accomplishment of meaningful action in naturally-occurring situations. Focusing particularly on Garfinkel's conceptualization of action and context as transformable and, above all, reflexively-configured, it is centrally argued that greater engagement with the ethnomethodological corpus of research has much to offer coaching scholarship both theoretically and methodologically.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal / Publication Title: | Sports Coaching Review |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| ISSN: | 2164-0637 |
| Departments: | Academic Departments > Medical & Sport Sciences (MSS) > Sports and Physical Activity |
| Depositing User: | Paul Miller |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2014 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2024 11:32 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1525 |
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