ABSTRACT
Growth in university sport coaching programs offers opportunity for promoting athlete-centred approaches but the extent to which these programs influence the coaching of their graduates has not been explored. This chapter redresses this oversight by drawing on a study that inquired into the influence of student-centred, inquiry-based higher education teaching in course on Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching (PPed) in individual sports. It briefly looks at the effectiveness of using the same pedagogy promoted in PPed before moving on to focus on experiences of six coaches who completed course of applying it to their coaching. The chapter also looks at how coaches applied and adapted PPed to their coaching needs and situations over six months following their completion of the course after briefly looking at how the students felt they learned. It provides some useful understanding of young coaches’ experiences of learning about, and using, PPed and how they adapted it to their practice and particular situations.
