Emotions in Sport Coaching by Potrac, Paul; Smith, Andy; Nelson, Lee;

Short description:

This book provides new, exploratory insights into the emotional dimensions of sport coaching. Utilising a variety of sociological and psychological frameworks, the contributors explore some of the connections between emotion, identity, cognition, learning and everyday practice. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Sports Coaching Review.

Long description:

Emotions are widely acknowledged as an inextricable feature of human behaviour, experience and interaction. They are, arguably, the glue that can bind people together or, alternatively, drive them apart. While social scientists have paid increasing attention to the centrality of emotions in social and pedagogical relationships, the sport coaching literature has remained largely free of emotions. Indeed, there remains a paucity of scholarship exploring how emotions such as excitement, joy, anger, anxiety, guilt, pride and embarrassment may be (re-)produced in, as well as through, the social interactions and contextual relations that constitute coaching. Similarly, we know very little about how these, and other, emotions are embodied in the everyday practice of individuals and groups. The aim of this book was to generate new and exploratory insights into the emotions that are an inherent feature of social relations and individual experience in coaching. Using a variety of psychological and sociological frameworks, the chapters in this book not only explore the interconnections between emotion, identity, cognition and learning, but they also serve as a platform for stimulating further inquiry in this topic area.

The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Sports Coaching Review.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Emotions in sport coaching: an introductory essay Paul Potrac, Andy Smith and Lee Nelson  Chapter 2. Passion and paranoia: an embodied tale of emotion, identity, and pathos in sports coaching Paul Potrac, Cliff Mallett, Kenny Greenough and Lee Nelson  Chapter 3. Sport coaches’ experiences of athlete injury: the development and regulation of guilt Laura Ann Martinelli, Melissa Catherine Day and Ruth Lowry  Chapter 4. Understanding coach burnout and underlying emotions: a narrative approach Kylie McNeill, Natalie Durand-Bush and Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre  Chapter 5. My eyes got a bit watery there: using stories to explore emotions in coaching research and practice for injured, sick and wounded military personnel Kitrina Douglas and David Carless  Chapter 6. Emotions, identity, and power in video-based feedback sessions: tales from women’s professional football Simone Magill, Lee Nelson, Robyn Jones and Paul Potrac