University of Ottawa
Post-Doctoral Stipend 2009
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Lifelong learning is a holistic and experiential concept that examines how individuals learn throughout their lifetimes. Jarvis (2006) presents lifelong learning as changes in an individual’s biography that occur throughout life when the person experiences social situations that are transformed through thoughts, emotions, and/or actions into knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, and skills. There is little research that explores how women coaches’ experiences in sport influence how they learn and change how they coach. The purpose of this Ph.D. dissertation is to explore the biographies of four Canadian women coaches using Jarvis’s theory of human learning to discover the multitude of experiences that have contributed to their learning and coaching development throughout their lives. The methodology used for this research is a life history narrative analysis. The research, when completed, will lead to a deeper understanding of women coaches’ learning situations and how their ongoing development impacts the young athletes they coach, both in sport and in their lives outside of sport. It is also anticipated that the findings will lead to an enhanced understanding of how we may structure coach education, particularly for women coaches.
Reference:
Jarvis, P. (2006). Towards a comprehensive theory of human learning: Lifelong learning and the learning society (Vol. 1). New York: Routledge.
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