Telling Tales in Sport and Physical Activity: A Qualitative Journey

By Linda Naylor Dench. 2003

457 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

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In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. Brett W. Smith
2. Kerry R. McGannon
3. P. Potrac
4. Robyn L. Jones
5. A. Sparkes
6. M. Weed
7. L. Purdy
8. R. Schinke

Citations in the corpus

• Narrative inquiry in psychology: exploring the tensions within (2006, background): “, 1998; Riesmann, 1993; Sparkes, 2002). In saying this, there are many other scholars whose work meets these non-foundational criteria. This brings us to our second reason. Our choices are also pragmatic. Quite simply, we could not cite all the authors and literature we have read over the years due ”
• Research quality considerations for grounded theory research in sport & exercise psychology (2009, background): “As such, grounded theory research had already followed the path later advocated by Sparkes (2002) in developing quality measures appropriate to the research approach, namely: fit, work, relevance and modifiability (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).”
• Coaching redefined: an everyday pedagogical endeavour (2007, background): “I chose a conversational format to present the case made in the article primarily in response to Sparkes’ (2002) related challenge for greater experimental writing within sports science.”
• A Qualitative Exploration of Participant Motives Among Committed Amateur Triathletes (2012, background): “Indeed, Sparkes (2002) believes that use of an insider’s perspective in researching specialized populations can inject a unique depth and insight into understanding the phenomenon under investigation.”
• New Ideas for High Performance Coaches: A Case Study of Knowledge Transfer in Sport Science (2008, methodology): “Consistent with the recommendations of Sparkes [19], quotations from the participants are presented in the results to represent the participants’ views and to allow readers to judge for themselves the meaning of the data and the authors’ conclusions.”
• Sporting Spinal Cord Injuries, Social Relations, and Rehabilitation Narratives: An Ethnographic Creative Non-Fiction of Becoming Disabled Through Sport (2013, methodology): “Drawing on the results of these analyses of narrative, and recognizing that writing is a form of analysis (Richardson, 2000; Sparkes, 2002), the standpoint of a storyteller was then adopted (Smith & Sparkes, 2009).”
• Cultural sport psychology research: conceptions, evolutions, and forecasts (2015, background): “Sparkes (2002) pondered the place of the author and researcher more than 10 years ago through the following questions: Whose story is being told in the research?”
• ‘I found out the hard way’: micro-political workings in professional football (2015, methodology): “We believe that stories provide a valuable tool for describing and interpreting Adam’s lifeworld, as they enable us to ‘see’ and ‘feel’ how he understood his own motivations and behaviours, as well as the actions of others at Hollington F.C. (Sparkes, 2002).”
• Seeing the world of physical culture: the potential of visual methods for qualitative research in sport and exercise (2010, background): “The topic of representation is a familiar one within qualitative research, and comprehensively discussed by Andrew Sparkes (2002) in his book, ‘Telling Tales in Sport & Physical Activity’.”
• Toward Cultural Praxis and Cultural Sensitivity: Strategies for Self-Reflexive Sport Psychology Practice (2012, background): “Confronting one’s own background, biases, and interests in a self-reflexive manner provides opportunity to draw attention to dilemmas about how to express one’s social position and identity without marginalizing another’s culture and identity (McGannon & Johnson, 2009; Sparkes, 2002).”
• Narrative and its potential contribution to disability studies (2008, background): “An exception, though, can be found in the work of Smith and Sparkes (2002, 2005) and Sparkes and Smith (2003, 2005). For them, as for Prussing et al. (2005), this type of narrative analysis is valuable because the formal aspects of structure ‘express’ the identities, moral dilemmas, perceptions and ”
• Narrative inquiry: ongoing conversations and questions for sport and exercise psychology research (2010, background): “For certain purposes, they can now justly harness the potential benefits (see Sparkes, 2002) of not just realist or scientific tales, but also of more novel forms of representation, such as ethnodrama, poetic representation, autoethnography, and/or fiction.”
• Ethnography and the senses: challenges and possibilities (2009, background): “…other attempts by scholars to produce more evocative and sensual forms of writing are successful, there is a need to be aware of the point made by Sparkes (2002a) that if, in part, it is the experience that chooses the form of representation to make its presence felt, then the written text might…”
• Using Ethnography in Applied Sport Psychology (2005, methodology): “A realist ethnographic text is one that provides thick description and detailed depictions of a social setting while writing the researcher out of the text (Brewer, 2000; Sparkes, 2002).”
• Power, consent and resistance: an autoethnography of competitive rowing (2008, background): “In recent years, the value of utilising autoethnography to further our understanding of human behaviour in the sporting context has been increasingly recognised (e.g. Denison, 1996; Tsang, 2000; Sparkes, 2002a).”