ABSTRACT

Despite its positive rhetoric, formalised coach mentoring can be problematic due to the institutional agendas of National Governing Bodies (NGB), with mentoring functioning as a method to reproduce organisational cultures and beliefs. This research attempted to explore this issue in greater depth by critically analysing a formalised coach mentoring programme. Fourteen mentors and four mentees participated in semi-structured interviews to discuss their experiences of an NGB’s formalised mentoring programme. Analysed through a Bourdieusian lens, the findings present formalised coach mentoring as a source of cultural reproduction, where mentors embodied a group habitus that reinforced the NGB’s dispositions and beliefs towards coaching practice. Mentors strived to inculcate mentees and rework their habituses to align with the field’s doxa through a process of pedagogic action, with symbolic capital proving influential in reproducing coaching ideologies. NGBs should begin to critically analyse their coach mentoring provision to maximise opportunities for mentee learning and development.

摘要

尽管采取了积极的措辞，但由于国家领导机构（NGB）的机构议程，正规的教练指导仍然存在问题，而指导则是一种再现组织文化和信仰的方法。这项研究试图通过批判性分析正规的教练指导计划来更深入地探讨这个问题。14位导师和4位导师参加了半结构化访谈，讨论了他们对NGB正规导师计划的体验。通过布尔迪厄斯主义的视角进行分析，发现提出了正规的教练指导，作为文化再生产的来源，指导者体现了一种团体习性，加强了NGB对教练实践的性格和信念。导师努力通过教育行动，灌输受训者并重整其习性，以适应该领域的问题，并证明了象征性资本在复制教练意识形态方面具有影响力。NGB应该开始批判性地分析其教练指导条款，以最大程度地提高受训者学习和发展的机会。