20.500.12556/RUL-152340 Dual career experiences of elite coaches enrolled at university level The lifelong education of coaches is one of the priorities of the European Union. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate Italian elite coaches’ motivation to engage in a sport-related academic education, and its demands, barriers, support, and relocation issues in relation to their dual career (DC) path. Sixteen Italian elite coaches (e.g., certified fourth-level national team coaches, senior team coaches) enrolled in a specifically tailored Bachelor’s degree in sports sciences at the University of Rome Foro Italico (Italy) volunteered for this study. A qualitative approach integrating inductive and deductive reasoning, and thematic analysis was applied to participants’ responses to an open-ended item survey. Independently from relocation, student-coaches’ DC perceptions resulted in 15 lower-order themes further organized in 5 high-er-order themes (e.g., Benefit, Challenge, Expectation, Organization, and Support), each related to the contexts (e.g., Personal, Academic, Sport), the DC dimension (e.g., micro, meso, macro, and policy), and the DC push (e.g., facilitating) /pull (e.g., hindering) factors. The elite coaches’ insights emphasize the complexity of the coach lifelong education at university level, and provide valuable information for promoting European and National (e.g., Italian) DC recommendations for elite sportspersons through a cooperation between sport bodies and higher educational institutions. sports athletes dual career universities students elite coaches human learning Italian people careers schools sports and exercise medicine finance šport športniki dvojna kariera študentje univerze trenerji true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2023-11-21 11:00:26 2023-11-21 11:00:27 2024-09-30 15:22:09 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 19 str. no. 4, art. e0283009 Vol. 18 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 796.071.2:316.477 1932-6203 10.1371/journal.pone.0283009 152464131 journal.pone.0283009.pdf journal.pone.0283009.pdf 1 773936617D2B958020031FD1577B9671 7c33d43e212d2759157153b5aad60f1c5eea74b7bb77ec5a49a45686c8db53ea fc8cb958-8854-11ee-8d2e-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=177802 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283009 1 ccc958c0-8854-11ee-8d2e-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=177801 Fakulteta za šport 0 0 0