Full Description
In many Western nations, community sport coaches occupy a central role in supporting the physical health, mental wellbeing, and wider social development of individuals and communities. However, there is no existing academic textbook that examines the policy contexts in which their work is located or, indeed, the challenges and opportunities that are an inherent feature of their everyday practice.
Bringing together an international team of leading researchers in sport policy, sport development, sport pedagogy, and sport coaching, as well as some of the best emerging talents, this book is the first to critically consider a range of policy and practice issues directly connected to community sport coaching.
Comprehensive, timely, and cutting-edge, no other text brings together in one place such a depth and breadth of scholarly material addressing this important field of endeavour. This book is an essential resource for educators, students, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with community sport coaching globally.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Political, Organisational, and Administrative Landscape of Community Sport Coaching
1. The Politics and Policy of Community Sport Coaching
2. Neoliberalism and Community Sport Coaching in the United States: Meeting Challenges with an Informed Strategy
3. Community Sport Coaches as Policy Actors
4. The Training, Education, and Professional Development of Community Sport Coaches
Part II: Enacting Sport and Physical Activity Interventions for Diverse Groups
5. Coaching Ethnically Diverse Participants: 'Race,' Racism, and Anti-Racist Practice in Community Sport
6. It Is Not a Checking Off of Boxes: Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Spaces and Policies in Community Sport
7. Developing and Coaching Physically Active Girls and Women
8. Coaching Children and Young People
9. Coaching Older Adults (Aged 55+)
10. Reflections on Coaching Policy and Practice in Community Disability Sport
11. Teaching Yoga to Incarcerated Populations: Insights from Canada's Federal Prison System
Part III: Negotiating Social Relationships in Community Sport Coaching Work
12. Political Skill in Community Sport Coaching Work
13. Community Sport Coaching and Impression Management
14. Emotions, Emotion Norms, and Emotion Management in Community Sport Coaching
15. Care in Community Sport Coaching
16. Trust and (Dis)trust in Community Sport Coaching
