Transcript Recasting the coach as a welfare agent: transprofessional

Recasting the coach as a welfare agent:
transprofessional possibilities in the age of
new professionalism
I.M. McEwan and W.G. Taylor
Department of Exercise and Sport Science
Manchester Metropolitan University
Overview
• UK government policy and the role of the
sports coach
• How this relates to the professionalisation of
sports coaching in the UK
• Transprofessionalism and the sports coach
• Barriers and beliefs
• Moving into the future
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Government policy and the repositioning
of sport
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London 2012
Widening participation agenda
Out of school opportunities
Life health practices
Health and sustainability of funding for sport
‘take seriously the responsibilities for the
health benefits of participation in sport at all
levels’ (Richard Caborn, 2006)
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Recasting of the sports coach through
professionalisation
• Integral and valid part of a health and welfare
provision
– general and specific use of sport
• Interprofessional relationships
• Transprofessionalism?
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Transprofessionalism
• ‘Third space thinking’
• ‘Occupational hybridity’
– (Hulme, Cracknell & Owens, 2009)
• To prevent ‘falling through the gaps’ in
services
• Foster inter-agency knowledge
• Sport?
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Transprofessionalism
• Increasing knowledge and sensibility towards
others in related fields leading to
advancements in practice
• Seamless and integrated systems approach of
a holistic management of provision
• Knowledge, histories and responsibilities are
shared by various professionals
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Barriers and blocks
• Can transprofessionalism be achieved without
the vested spectre of power being ever
present?
• How will differing forms of capital affect
professional ‘currency’ in a field?
• Lack of training in the practicalities of
transprofessional workings
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Professional boundaries
• Resistance towards fluidity of practice and
understanding across professional boundaries
• New vocabularies for collaboration
• Boundary protectionism
• Intra-professional isolationism
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Moving forward
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Understanding transprofessionalism
Training and knowledge
Taking opportunities
‘highlights the gap between the new
opportunities that occur as a result of any
field change and the field participants with
attitudes and practices that are needed to
recognize, grasp and occupy these new field
positions’ (Genfell, 2008, 135)
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