Thread by @SingleBlade1

OK - I don't doubt this is well-intentioned & in good faith... but fundamentally, it embeds talent-pathway / elite sport "exceptionalism" in ways which justify sustaining norms of elite-athlete-transfer & reliance on lots of "-ologies" (declarative professional knowledge).

https://twitter.com/uk_sport/status/1339625405028954115

Keith Davids is cited... but aside from a token reference to non-linearity, the report reads as if his lifetime's work (& the contributions of his colleagues around the world) has no relevance & poses no major challenges to a "business-as-usual" approach.
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Crucially, the "new" position statement doesn't even register challenges from the likes of @markstkhlm - who has called into question the ethics of sustaining established priorities & asks if we should even have a social license to continue with them...

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Where's the coaching pathway for promising younger athletes who combine playing with coaching at club level?Where's the talk of an apprenticeship in youth-coaching? Of developing as a real-world coach by making mistakes & learning from them under the watchful eye of others?

Where's the sense of the 21st century? Of where @tobyjlowe, the @NewSystemAlly & others are challenging us all to develop Human Learning Systems @SystemsHuman approaches to leading, funding & managing ? Or even of priorities around inclusion & diversity?
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Plus a QQ: who gains / loses if coach development is shaped by this @uk_sport & @eis2win model? With a consultant-based "filter" on anything that's being learned or developed through what @Sport_England, @_UKCoaching & the wider developer-workforce & academia might be doing? 🤔