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The Way that Things Are Done Around Here: An Investigation into the Organisational and Social Structures that Contribute to Structural Power Within the Australian Swim Coach Education Pathway

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What is an appropriate structure for reporting a study of relational structures in a coach education pathway, following social constructivist and critical enquiry perspectives, and adopting narrative and auto-ethnographic approaches.

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Zehntner, C. (2018). The Way that Things Are Done Around Here: An Investigation into the Organisational and Social Structures that Contribute to Structural Power Within the Australian Swim Coach Education Pathway. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_28

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