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Peer coaching in a school in Cairo, Egypt: Implementation, barriers, and pathways to effective adoption [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how peer coaching was introduced in one school in Egypt and to identify barriers and opportunities for successful implementation.
Sider, Steve
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
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Coaching Style Preferences of Division I College and Professional Softball Players [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this study was to describe the coaching style and leader behavior preferences of softball players. The Leadership Scale for Sports (LSS; Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980) was administered to Division I college softball players and professional ...
Langenfeld, Megan Diane
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Coach Learning and Coach Education: Portuguese Expert Coaches’ Perspective [PDF]
The Sport Psychologist, 2014 The aim of this study was to analyze Portuguese expert coaches’ conceptions of learning sources that promote long-term coach development and the extent to which these sources are currently present in coach education programs. Six expert coaches were individually interviewed, using a semistructured format and the interviews were analyzed using QSR N6 ...
Mesquita, Isabel, Ribeiro, Joana
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Evaluation of the relationship between body composition and aerobic fitness in youth soccer players
Physical Education of Students, 2018 Background and Study Aim: The purpose of the study was to make an evaluation between aerobic fitnes (VO2max) and body composition in youth soccer players. Material and Methods: U19, U17, U16 and U15 age groups participated in the study. Twenty-eight U19 (
Ö. Nalbant, K. Özer
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The Skills to Pay the Bills: An Evaluation of an Effort to Help Nonprofits Manage Their Finances [PDF]
, 2015 This study examines a Wallace Foundation-sponsored initiative aimed at improving the financial management skills and practices of 25 Chicago afterschool providers through training and coaching.
Angela Rojas +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Developing Coaching Supervision Practice: an Australian case study [PDF]
International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 2009 This paper describes a coaching supervision framework and practice and the effects of it on participants in the monthly supervision groups. The framework was originally developed in an action research process aimed at improving and standardising ...
Hilary Armstrong, Mandy Geddes
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Professionalism, Golf Coaching and a Master of Science Degree: A commentary [PDF]
, 2014 As a point of reference I congratulate Simon Jenkins on tackling the issue of professionalism in coaching. As he points out coaching is not a profession, but this does not mean that coaching would not benefit from going through a professionalization ...
Abraham, A
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