Abstract
Current thinking in coach education advocates mentoring as a coach development tool to connect theory and practice; however, little empirical evidence exists to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring as a coach development tool. Business, education and nursing precede the coaching industry in their mentoring practice and research findings offered in these domains could be drawn upon to position mentoring as sports coaching development tool. Given the remote basis of some of the mentor-coach relationships that exist in sports coaching additional learning can be drawn from mentoring conducted by virtual or electronic mediums. This paper concludes with a series of reflective questions arising from research findings in other domains, designed to engage the potential coaching organization with the mentoring process.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 317-329 |
| Journal | Quest |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 20 Aug 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- mentoring
- coach development
- informal & formal learning
- effectiveness
- mentor-coach relationships
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Christine Nash
- Moray House School of Education and Sport - Personal Chair of Sport Coaching
- Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences
Person: Academic: Research Active
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