ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case study of key scientific insights and consider the implications the cultural perspective of learning has for research and practice. It proposes key insights and implications for sport organisations, officials, coaches, and coach educators and elite sport practice. Thinking about athletes' learning from a cultural perspective has a number of implications for research and researchers. Regardless of interpretative challenges or concerns, the case study authors commented that they found relating their athletes' sporting contexts, biographies, and horizontal development valuable. Athletes continuously negotiate activities in relation to the assemblage of social, cultural, situational, circumstantial, biographical, and individual factors they face within and outside of elite sport. The chapter argues that case study inquiry informed by a cultural perspective of learning offers a framework to comprehensively research athlete learning in elite sport. The insights further reveal that athletes' learning is normalising, entails friction and conflict, and may be agentic.
