Miller2013a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Paul K. Miller, Colum Cronin |
| Title | Rethinking the factuality of “contextual” factors in an ethnomethodological mode: Towards a reflexive understanding of action-context dynamism in the theorisation of coaching |
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| Tag(s) | context, coaching process, ethnomethodology, indexicality, sport, reflexivity |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year | 2013 |
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| Journal | Sports Coaching Review |
| Volume | 1 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 106-123 |
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| DOI | 10.1080/21640629.2013.790166 |
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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 the coordinative accomplishment of meaningful action in naturally-occurring situations. Focusing particularly on Garfinkel’s conceptualisation 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.
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