ABSTRACT

This article takes a look back, in order to take a step forward, for sports coach mentorship within both academia and practice. Consequently, this article aims to review the contemporary trends within the sports coach mentoring literature and beyond to build upon earlier foundations. Throughout, four areas of significance are identified: (1) A sociocultural analysis of sports coach mentorship; (2) multiple-mentors and developmental networks; (3) developing sports coach mentors; and (4) gender and role models. The existing literature within each area is introduced, analysed, and critiqued, before an innovative future research agenda is established. Whilst mentorship is regularly utilised within sports coaching, the practice remains undertheorised and conceptually vague. Therefore, this literature review attempts to reconstruct sports coach mentorship by highlighting gaps in our knowledge and instigating innovative research agendas to produce contextually and culturally bound empirical evidence. Thus, this article advances our understanding of mentoring practice within sports coaching.

摘要

本文回顾了学术界和实践中的体育教练指导，以便向前迈出一步。因此，本文旨在回顾体育教练指导文献及其他领域的当代趋势，以建立在早期基础之上。在整个过程中，确定了四个重要领域：（1）体育教练指导的社会文化分析；(2) 多导师和发展网络；（三）培养运动教练导师；(4) 性别和榜样。在制定创新的未来研究议程之前，将对每个领域的现有文献进行介绍、分析和评论。虽然在体育教练中经常使用指导，但这种做法仍然缺乏理论和概念上的模糊。所以，这篇文献综述试图通过突出我们知识中的差距并激发创新研究议程以产生与上下文和文化相关的经验证据来重建运动教练指导。因此，本文增进了我们对运动教练指导实践的理解。