All Outputs (3)

‘Handshakes, BBQs, and bullets’: self-interest, shame and regret in football coaching (2012)
Journal Article
Potrac, P., Jones, R., Gilbourne, D., & Nelson, L. (2012). ‘Handshakes, BBQs, and bullets’: self-interest, shame and regret in football coaching. Sports Coaching Review, 1(2), 79-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2013.768418

This autoethnographic story explores the competitive, calculating, and often uncaring world of performance football coaching. Particular attention is given to the dilemmas I (the first author) faced, the choices I made, and the consequences of my act... Read More about ‘Handshakes, BBQs, and bullets’: self-interest, shame and regret in football coaching.

Contemplations on sport, complexity, ages of being and practice (2012)
Journal Article
Gilbourne, D. (2012). Contemplations on sport, complexity, ages of being and practice. Sports Coaching Review, 1(1), 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2012.689491

From my experience of working alongside coaches, I would say that they are complexpeople. The people they coach are complex too. In the present paper, I considercomplexity as an underlying dynamic to (coaching) practice, something that might beunders... Read More about Contemplations on sport, complexity, ages of being and practice.

From ‘blame’ to ‘shame’ in a coach–athlete relationship in golf: a tale of shared critical reflection and the re-storying of narrative experience (2012)
Journal Article
Toner, J., Nelson, L., Potrac, P., Gilbourne, D., & Marshall, P. (2012). From ‘blame’ to ‘shame’ in a coach–athlete relationship in golf: a tale of shared critical reflection and the re-storying of narrative experience. Sports Coaching Review, 1(1), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2012.704193

This paper is centered on the principle author's (John) personal narrative of a coach-athlete relationship in golf, and how the original story altered through a process of shared critical thinking. On first telling, John explained to his co-authors h... Read More about From ‘blame’ to ‘shame’ in a coach–athlete relationship in golf: a tale of shared critical reflection and the re-storying of narrative experience.