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Managing the Complexity: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Noticing Within Orchestration

Bibliographic Details
Title: Managing the Complexity: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Noticing Within Orchestration
Authors: Aubrey Newland, Lori A. Gano-Overway
Source: International Sport Coaching Journal. 12:351-361
Publisher Information: Human Kinetics, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 4. Education, 05 social sciences, 0503 education
Description: Sport coaching is an inherently complex endeavor. To manage this complexity, some coaches engage in orchestration to plan, organize, monitor, and respond to the dynamic sport environment. Using an ethnographic approach, the current research aimed to understand how a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II female basketball coach orchestrated the complex and relational nature of coaching over the course of a sport season and with particular attention to how noticing occurred and informed orchestration. A combination of formal and informal coach and player interviews, observation and field notes, and audio reflections of the coach was carried out over the course of the season. The authors used a realist tale to illustrate the complexity of the coaching experience and how the coach used noticing and relational schemas to navigate ambiguity, the micropolitical landscape, and interpersonal relationships to steer the team toward personal growth and high performance.
Document Type: Article
ISSN: 2328-9198
2328-918X
DOI: 10.1123/iscj.2023-0072
Accession Number: edsair.doi...........0e78d2ebedc7dd222eb4f4dba9e1a5bc
Database: OpenAIRE
Description
ISSN:23289198
2328918X
DOI:10.1123/iscj.2023-0072