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PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTION IN ADVENTURE SPORTS: A CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Abstract

This study presents and discusses a set of concepts to provide a broad understanding about professional intervention in adventure sports. The conceptual delimitation adopted for adventure sports includes those sports that are possibilities for pedagogical intervention in sports. Collins and Collins’s (2015) Adventure Sports Coach Model (ASC) was designed under the influence of theoretical frameworks used in sports coach research. The Model’s components include the intervention focus, ASC’s ability to remain in the natural environment, risk management and decision-making processes, and the personal epistemological structure at the basis of their intervention. The analysis of these conceptual components in different contexts can be useful for knowledge production and scientific interchange with implications on ASC’s development and social recognition.

Keywords:
Coach; Physical Education and Training; Sports; Nature

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