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Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, The Ethics of Sports Coaching examines the key ethical issues at the centre of sports coaching practice.
Arguing that the coaching process is inherently moral rather than simply instrumental, and that coaches must be fully aware of the ethical implications of their actions, the book adds an important dimension to our understanding of sports coaching and the relationship between coach and athlete. The book is structured around three interrelated themes that are central to an understanding of coaching from a moral point of view: the practice of coaching, the character of the coach, and the coaching environment. It explores a range of key themes in contemporary sports coaching, including gender, coaching young athletes, coaching in disability sport, performance enhancement, dangerous and violent sports, and expatriate coaching. This edition also has brand new material on topics including professional ethics, professional judgment, women coaches, and ambiguity in 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.
Contents
Introduction
Alun R. Hardman, Carwyn Jones, and Pam R. Sailors
PART I
The Nature of Coaching
1 The Good Coach as an Enlightened Generalist
Sigmund Loland
2 Codes of Conduct, Compliance, and Trust in Coaching Ethics
Mike McNamee and Julian North
3 Coaching of Ambiguity: The Sports Coach as an Existential Pedagogue
Kenneth Aggerholm
PART II
The Character of the Coach
4 Becoming a Good Coach: Sports Coaching and Phronesis
Øyvind F. Standal and Liv B. Hemmestad
5 Objectivity and Subjectivity in Coaching
Paul Davis
6 Sports Coaching and Virtue Ethics
Alun R. Hardman, Carwyn Jones and Tafara Chivasa
PART III
Coaching Specific Populations
7 The Moral Ambiguity of Coaching Youth Sport
John S. Russell
8 Women Coaches Coaching Women
Pam R. Sailors
9 Men Coaching Women Athletes: More Thoughts
Michael Burke
10 Coaching Ethics and Disability Sport
Rachael Newport and Alun R. Hardman
PART IV
Coaching in Context: Contemporary Ethical Issues
11 Coaching Ethics and Performance Enhancement
Irena Martínková and Jim Parry
12 Ethical Issues in Coaching Dangerous Sports
Emily Ryall and Steve Olivier
13 A Defense of Expatriate Coaching in Sport
Cesar R. Torres
