ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the philosophical assumptions that guide the research paradigms and the theoretical frameworks adopted by the qualitative researchers on or with women in coaching. It provides a brief discussion of the philosophical considerations and the qualitative research paradigms, and then it reviews a qualitative research on or with the women in coaching. Denzin and Lincoln labeled a series of significant historical periods in the history of qualitative research to summarize the development of paradigms. The goals of post-positivist research are explanation and the prediction, where reoccurring factors or social structures create human behavior. Qualitative research from the interpretivism paradigm comes in many forms such as general or descriptive methodological approaches, or comprehensive methodological approaches such as ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, or biography. Walker and Bopp used phenomenology as their theoretical framework to understand ten women coaches' experiences coaching collegiate basketball and gender issues.
