Sports Coaching Cultures

Name: Sports Coaching Cultures
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415328517
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From Practice to Theory

By Paul Potrac and Kathleen M. Armour and Robyn Jones

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Summary

Sports Coaching Cultures offers a unique 'coach’s eye' perspective, exploring coaching as a deeply personal and socially complex practice. Through detailed interviews with eight international elite coaches across football, rugby, swimming, and athletics, the book examines the realities and challenges of coaching in diverse sporting contexts.
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Format: Hardback

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This book is ideal for sports professionals, coaching students, and anyone interested in the social and personal dimensions of sports coaching.

Examining the personalities, histories, relationships and individual styles of eight coaches at the top of their profession, this book offers a view that focuses on the coach as a person and the coaching practice as a complex social encounter.

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This groundbreaking coaching studies text offers a coaches eye view of coaching, focusing on the coach as a person, and coaching practice as a complex social encounter.

Fascinating interviews with eight leading international sports coaches from a range of team and individual sports, including football, rugby, swimming, and athletics, form the basis for subsequent exploration of key themes in sports coaching.

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‘Sports Coaching Cultures is an easy to read, yet thought-provoking book which provides an open and honest account of the work of eight elite coaches from the world of sport ... [It] is both well written and logically structured.’ - European Physical Education Review

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415328517

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 December 2003

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 530g

Pages: 200

Collections

Coaching & Motivation Kathleen M. Armour Non-Fiction Paul Potrac Robyn Jones Sports

About the Author

Kathleen M. Armour, Paul Potter, Robyn Jones