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Miller2013a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Miller2013a
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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