scholarly journals A Reflection on the State of Sport Coaching Research, Its Community, and Representation: The 2020 International Council for Coaching Excellence Research Committee

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Julian North ◽  
Bettina Callary ◽  
Kristen Dieffenbach ◽  
Larissa Galatti ◽  
Sergio Lara-Bercial ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
International Council ◽  
International Sport ◽  
Sport Coaching

This article provides an overview of the context, details, and outcomes of a consultation and review of the International Council for Coaching Excellence’s interactions and engagements with, and service provision to, the international sport coaching research community. The consultation and review were undertaken by the International Council for Coaching Excellence Research Committee (RC). The paper starts with a description of the sport coaching research landscape. It then provides details of the role of the International Council for Coaching Excellence, its Research Fair, and RC. The paper then offers an overview of the formal initiation of the consultation and review at the Global Coach Conference, Japan 2019, as well as a brief overview of the approach used. It then details the consultation findings providing direction for the RC moving forward. The resultant revised RC terms of reference are included as an appendix.

A Brief Statement on the Future of Public Scholarship and the Research Methods Landscape

2019 ◽  
pp. 700-707
Author(s):  
Patricia Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Book Editor

The book editor offers some final comments about the state of the field and promise for the future. Leavy suggests researchers consider using the language of “shapes” to talk about the forms their research takes and to highlight the ongoing role of the research community in shaping knowledge-building practices. She reviews the challenges and rewards of taking your work public. Leavy concludes by noting that institutional structures need to evolve their rewards criteria in order to meet the demands of practicing contemporary research and suggests that professors update their teaching practices to bring the audiences of research into the forefront of discussions of methodology.

Beyond Contestation

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-246
Author(s):  
Holly Snape
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
The Way

This paper draws on empirical research undertaken in mainland China spanning five years to examine the role of a quiet, incremental, and holistic approach adopted by grassroots ngos as they attempt to carve out greater governance and service provision roles for themselves and influence the state. In light of this approach, it also questions the way we conceptualize the autonomy of ngos and the search for contestation between ngos and the state which clouds our view of more subtle yet powerful interaction. It goes on to suggest that by adjusting the lens through which we interpret the transformation of the state-society relationship, we may be able to form a clearer understanding of the wave-like development of civil society in China as the space for social organizing expands and contracts on an upward trajectory.

scholarly journals The International Sport Coaching Bachelor Degree Standards of the International Council for Coaching Excellence

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Lara-Bercial ◽  
Andy Abraham ◽  
Pascal Colmaire ◽  
Kristen Dieffenbach ◽  
Olivia Mokglate ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Step Change ◽  
Short History ◽  
Bachelor Degree ◽  
International Council ◽  
Evolving Context ◽  
Education And Development ◽  
International Sport ◽  
Sport Coaching

Sport coaching is at a pivotal moment in its short history. The publication of the International Sport Coaching Framework by the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) in 2013 has drawn attention to coaching world-wide and fostered a step change in the way coaching systems are understood and built. Within this evolving context, higher education institutions are increasingly playing a greater role in the education and development of coaches in many countries. One way in which they are doing so is through the delivery of partial or full sport coaching degrees. ICCE recognises this emerging landscape. In this article we present an introduction to the newly developed International Sport Coaching Bachelor Degree Standards. The Standards are the culmination of a 12-month process of cooperation and consultation between an expert group and the coaching community at large. They aim to respond to the needs of higher education institutions and serve as an internationally accepted reference point to aid the development of bachelor coaching degrees that prepare coaches to effectively support athletes and participants.

9 The changing role of the state in healthcare systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (S1) ◽  
pp. 187-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEINZ ROTHGANG ◽  
MIRELLA CACACE ◽  
SIMONE GRIMMEISEN ◽  
CLAUS WENDT
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Small Shift ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Changing Role

This article focuses on two major questions concerning the changing role of the state in the healthcare systems of OECD countries. First, we ask whether major changes in the level of state involvement (in healthcare systems) have occurred in the past 30 years. Given the fact that three types of healthcare system, each of which is characterized by a distinct role of the state, evolved during the ‘Golden Age’, we discuss how this distinctiveness – or more technically, variance – has changed in the period under scrutiny. While many authors analysing health policy changes exclusively concentrate on finance and expenditure data, we simultaneously consider financing, service provision and regulation. As far as financing is concerned, we observe a small shift from the public to the private sphere, with a tendency towards convergence in this dimension. The few data available on service provision, in contrast, show neither signs of retreat of the state nor of convergence. In the regulatory dimension – which we analyse by focusing on major health system reforms in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States – we see the introduction or strengthening of those coordination mechanisms (hierarchy, markets and self-regulation) which were traditionally weak in the respective type of healthcare system. Putting these findings together we find a tendency of convergence from distinct types towards mixed types of healthcare systems.

Exploring the Role of Islam in Mali

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaimie Bleck ◽  
Alex Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Reputational Costs ◽  
Secular State

The absence of Islamist parties or religious candidates in Mali conceals the important role that Muslim leaders have played in politics during the multiparty era. Unlike other contexts, where religious leaders have leveraged networks of service provision to launch mass parties, Islamic service provision fuels personalist networks for major religious figures in Mali, who exist in varying degrees of complementarity with the secular state. This chapter examines clerics’ roles in politics and governance in Mali. As trusted providers of social services, including education and justice provision, Muslim clerics also offer patronage networks that are an alternative to those embedded in the secular state. Rather than explicitly challenge the regime, the country’s leading clerics have struck a delicate balance between competition and complementarity with the state. They use their close proximity to the state to influence politics, gain power, and engage in contentious politics, but minimize reputational costs associated with running for office. The chapter demonstrates that the introduction of jihadist groups, and their repertoires of service provision, which explicitly challenges the state, is a strong departure from existing patterns of political engagement by Muslim clerics and their networks. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the ways that jihadist presence, with its explicit challenge to the secular state, could challenge existing patterns of accommodation between religious leaders and the state.

scholarly journals Political patronage and political values: The developmental role of political patronage and its impact on shaping political values in rural Uganda.

Afrika Focus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristof Titeca
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
The State ◽  
Informal Logic ◽  
Political Values ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Patronage ◽  
Western Uganda

This article points out the importance of neo-patrimonial theories in understanding local socio-political dynamics. Through the analysis of a case study in Western Uganda, it is firstly shown how within 'formal' state institutions, there is an 'informal' logic of competing political camps. These political camps, and their subsidiary networks of political patronage, have adverse effects for development. Secondly, this system has a profound impact on how people perceive the service- delivery functions of the state: people on the ground do not expect the state to be there for everyone, but only for the people of their 'political camp' or network. Also the role of the state is seen as strongly personalised, as the 'big men' are perceived to have taken over the service provision activities of the state.Key Words: Local Government, Neo-Patrimonialism, Patronage, Uganda, Service-Provision 

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