Factors Associated with Teachers’ Recruitment and Continuous Engagement of External Coaches in School-Based Extracurricular Sports Activities: A Qualitative Study

Kenryu Aoyagi, Kaori Ishii, Ai Shibata, Hirokazu Arai, Chisato Hibi, Koichiro Oka

Faculty of Letters, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.
Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan.
Graduate School of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/ape.2013.32010                

Abstract

School-based extracurricular sports activity (SBECSA) has developed as an opportunity that adolescents play sports in Japan. However, there are some issues to maintain active SBECSA such as lack of teacher who can coach SBECSA expertly, and large imposition of teachers to manage SBECSA. For resolving these issues, promoting engagement of external coach is favorable. Nevertheless, the number of external coach has not been enough. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to explain facilitators and barriers related with teacher’s action for recruitment and handling with external coach, and expected qualification for external coach. Personal semi-structured interview was performed toward 22 teachers who worked in a public junior high school or a public high school. In the analysis of the present study, the KJ method―a type of qualitative analyses―was used. All transcribed data were divided into individual content and grouped together into small, middle and large categories. For facilitators, four large categories such as benefits to SBECSA, benefits to teachers, system and support were emerged. For barriers, four large categories such as negative influences on SBECSA, negative influences on teachers, system and support were grouped. For expected qualifications, five large categories such as humanity, ability, cooperativeness, attributions and trust were categorized. In conclusion, the present study identified various facilitators, barriers and expected qualifications. External coach would increase by enhancing facilitators, reducing barriers, and targeting human resource who meets expected qualifications.

Keywords

Adolescent; KJ Method; Facilitator; Barrier; Expected Qualification

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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