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Coaches play a highly influential role across the whole spectrum of sport. Their proficiency is crucial to the progression, welfare and even the personal development of the athletes under their charge. Maximising the development of that... more
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      Informal LearningCommunities of practiceSports CoachingCoaching and Coach Education
This paper presents an evidence-based model (the I3E model) for embedding education for sustainability (EfS) within a higher education institution. This model emerged from a doctoral research that examined organisational learning and... more
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      Action ResearchHigher EducationAction research (Methodology)University
There is a growing body of action research on school improvement and development. Many of these studies have found the use of critical friendship valuable in relation to teachers’ or principals’ practice. Yet, little attention has been... more
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      EducationEducational LeadershipAction ResearchSystems Thinking
This article examines the learning by a dean of education through the process of executive coaching. In adopting a self-study approach to explore the experience of executive coaching, we draw on the notion of critical friendship as a way... more
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      Teacher EducationLeadershipAdministrationExecutive Coaching
Researchers conducting studies in communities have long taken an interest in exploring the different merits of positioning themselves as 'insiders', 'outsiders' or 'in-betweeners' in relation to their participants. Yet research exploring... more
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      TrustTransformationSocial Cognitive TheoryProfessional Learning
• Reflectivity is an important professional competence of contemporary teachers. In order to explore how to encourage students' reflection, we conducted a two-year action research project impelling them to become mutual critical friends.... more
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      Action ResearchCritical ReflectionCritical Friendshipreflection in teacher education
On the criticality for scientists to work with creative & neurodiverse allies. Lecture & Masterclass commissioned for the 2020 CoCA Annual Meeting. scheduled for 17/3/2020 at Frankfurt University Hospital. Commissioned for the 2020 CoCA... more
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      Health SciencesAttention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderADHD (Psychology)Interdisciplinarity
"Critical friend" is a term widely used in professional development, teacher education, and evaluation contexts. It is defined by Costa and Kallick (1993) as a trusted person who asks the researcher provocative questions, provides an... more
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      TrustAcademic WritingDialogueLearning And Teaching In Higher Education