The Ethics of Sports Coaching (Ethics and Sport)

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Synopsis
Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice? Despite the increasing sophistication of our understanding of the player-sport-coach relationship, the dominant perspective of the sports coach is still an instrumental one, focused almost exclusively on performance, achievement and competitive success. In this ground-breaking new book, leading sport scholars challenge that view, arguing that the coaching process is an inherently moral one with an inescapably ethical dimension, involving intense relationships between players and coaches. The Ethics of Sports Coaching critically examines this moral aspect, develops a powerful idea of what sports coaching ought to be, and argues strongly that coaches must be aware of the ethical implications of their acts. The book is structured around four central themes: the nature of coaching, the character of the coach, coaching specific populations and specific coaching contexts. It explores in detail many of the key ethical issues in contemporary sports coaching, including: coaching special populations the ethics of talent identification understanding the limits of performance enhancement coaching dangerous sports expatriate coaching setting professional standards in sports coaching. Combining powerful theoretical positions with clear insights into the everyday realities of sports coaching practice, this is an agenda-setting book. It is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in sports coaching or the ethics and philosophy of sport.
Copyright:
2011

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781135282950
Related ISBNs:
9780203868447, 9780415557740, 9780415557740, 9780415557757, 9780415557757
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Alun R. Hardman and Carwyn Jones
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Sports, Education, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Alun R Hardman
Edited by:
Carwyn Jones

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