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Warming Up to Race: Exploring Foucauldian Inspired Coaching Practices in Swimming through Coach Development
DownloadSpring 2018
Currently, sport science is the dominant body of knowledge informing coach development, coach education (Cassidy, Potrac, & McKenzie, 2006; Cushion & Nelson, 2013; Jones & Turner, 2006; Piggott, 2012), and coaching research (Cassidy, Jones, & Protrac, 2009; Denison, 2007; Gilbert & Trudel, 2004)....
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What can Foucault tell us about Fun in Sport? A Foucauldian Critical Examination of the Discursive Production and Deployment of Fun within Varsity Coaching Contexts
DownloadFall 2014
Fun is a concept of growing importance in sport and in sport coaching research (e.g., Bigelow et al. 2001; Mastrich, 2002; Small, 2002; Smoll et al., 1988; Thompson, 1997; 2003). Fun, and especially fun in sport, is generally understood not only as being unproblematic but also as being inherently...
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Fall 2012
Motivated by the apparent ineffectiveness of feminist critiques to ameliorate my negative experiences of my body, this thesis investigates Michel Foucault’s understanding of experience and critique in an effort to explain this inefficacy. Caught between intuitions that my “stubborn” experiences...
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Women Poets and National History: Reading Margaret Atwood, Anna Akhmatova, and Lina Kostenko
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This dissertation focuses on the portrayal of historical events in the works of Margaret Atwood, Anna Akhmatova, and Lina Kostenko. These Canadian, Russian, and Ukrainian poets present women as participants in political events, possessing historical agency, and taking part in the creation of a...
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Spring 2013
Educational decision-makers rarely legitimize youth’s perspectives in constructing ‘effective’ sex education. In this study, I concentrated on what students have to say about this aspect of their educational experience, and learned how decision-makers respond to youth’s perspectives. I draw on...