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(2014) The socioecological educator, Dordrecht, Springer.
Through coaching
examining a socio-ecological approach to sports coaching
Ruth Jeanes, Jonathan Magee, Justin O'Connor
pp. 89-107
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.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7167-3_5
Full citation:
Jeanes, R. , Magee, J. , O'Connor, J. (2014)., Through coaching: examining a socio-ecological approach to sports coaching, in B. Wattchow, R. Jeanes, L. Alfrey & T. Brown (eds.), The socioecological educator, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 89-107.
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