Dual career experiences of elite coaches enrolled at university level

Fusco, Andrea (avtor), Capranica, Laura (avtor), Palumbo, Federico (avtor), Mosci, Giuilio (avtor), Ciaccioni, Simone (avtor), Doupona, Mojca (avtor), Cortis, Cristina (avtor), Guidotti, Flavia (avtor)

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.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: sports, athletes, dual career, universities, students, elite coaches, human learning, Italian people, careers, schools, sports and exercise medicine, finance
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FŠ - Fakulteta za šport
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: 19 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 18, no. 4, art. e0283009
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-152340
• UDK: 796.071.2:316.477
• ISSN pri članku: 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283009
• COBISS.SI-ID: 152464131
• Datum objave v RUL: 21.11.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: PloS one
• Založnik: PLOS
• ISSN: 1932-6203
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2005896

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: šport, športniki, dvojna kariera, študentje, univerze, trenerji

Projekti

• Financer: EC - European Commission
• Program financ.: Erasmus+, Sport Programme
• Številka projekta: 590400-EPP-1-2017-1-AT-SPO-SCP