Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to critically examine contemporary sports coaching, and to consider how social ecology might provide a valuable framework for critiquing current expectations placed on coaches, and how a socio-ecological approach may improve coaching practice. There are significant and diverse demands now being placed on the 'grassroots' community coach that are under-researched and under-theorised within the academic community and rarely considered by coach educators and policy makers. This chapter firstly uses a socio-ecological framework to deconstruct some of the assumptions which underpin 'sport for social good' projects. Secondly, a socio-ecological approach is presented as a possible alternative way to underpin sports coaching that is seeking to lead to certain wider social outcomes. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the holistic vision encouraged by a socio-ecological framework can offer a great deal for conceptualising of effective sports coaching.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Socioecological Educator: A 21st Century Renewal of Physical, Health,Environment and Outdoor Education |
| Editors | Brian Wattchow, Ruth Jeanes, Laura Alfrey, Trent Brown, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Justen O'Connor |
| Place of Publication | The Netherlands |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Volume | 9789400771673 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789400771673 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9400771665, 9789400771666 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2014 |
Keywords
- Community coaching
- Social justice
- Socio-ecological coaching