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‘You don't need a degree to get a coaching job’: investigating the employability of sports coaching degree students
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posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by E T Hall, D T Cowan, Will VickeryThough highly popular, degree-level sports coaching qualifications are in their infancy, and it remains that ‘an individual intending to become an accredited coaching practitioner can only do so by undertaking their sport's national governing body (NGB) coaching award(s)’ [Nelson et al., 2006, p. 254. Formal, nonformal and informal coach learning: A holistic conceptualisation. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 1(3), 247–259]. Consequently, little is known about the development of HE sports coaching students’ employability. This study critically investigates sports coaching students’ degree-study motives, development of employability skills and perceptions of career prospects as graduates. Survey data and follow-up interviews from two U.K. post-92 universities reveal tensions between liberal and vocational philosophies of university education and concerns about the graduate labour market. Critical incidents and missed opportunities in students’ development of key skills for coaching during and outside of university are also discussed.
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Sport, education and societyVolume
24Issue
8Pagination
883 - 903Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1357-3322eISSN
1470-1243Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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Higher educationGraduate employabilitySkillsIdentityProfessionalismSocial SciencesScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineEducation & Educational ResearchHospitality, Leisure, Sport & TourismSport SciencesSocial Sciences - Other TopicsprofessionalisationHIGHER-EDUCATIONMIXED METHODSPHYSICAL-EDUCATIONDECISION-MAKINGWORK EXPERIENCEPERCEPTIONSUNIVERSITYFUTUREKNOWLEDGENEOLIBERALISM
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