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You can't do crime if you do music : soittoharrastuksen vaikutus eteläafrikkalaisen STTEP-musiikkikoulun oppilaiden elämänkuvaan
2004
Hobby, career or vocation? Meanings in sports coaching and their implications for recruitment and retention of coaches
2020
Rationale/Purpose: Traditional European sports clubs are facing increasing pressures to professionalise their services, while also encountering difficulties in the recruitment and retention of the coaching workforce. We used the concept of meaningful work to explore why coaching is worthwhile to coaches and how they have responded to the changes in the structural and narrative context of their work. \ud \ud Methodology: Drawing on narrative inquiry, we explored the various meanings and justifications that athletics (track and field) coaches assign to coaching in Finland and England. Twenty-three coaches (8 women, 15 men) aged 22 – 86 participated in narrative interviews that were analysed u…