The ethics of sports coaching

Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice? This book argues that the coaching process is an inherently moral one with an inescapably ethical dimension, involving intense relationships between players and coache...

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Other Authors: Hardman, Alun (Editor), Jones, Carwyn 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge 2011
Series:Ethics and sport
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Table of Contents:
  • The nature of coaching: The normative aims of coaching: the good coach as an enlightened generalist
  • Celebrating trust: virtues and rules in the ethical conduct of sports coaches
  • The character of the coach: Becoming a good coach: coaching and phronesis
  • Objectivity and subjectivity in coaching
  • Sports coaching and virtue ethics
  • Coaching specific populations: The moral ambiguity of coaching youth sport
  • Sport-smart persons: a practical ethics for coaching young athletes
  • Males coaching female athletes
  • Coaching ethics and Paralympic sports
  • Coaching in context: contemporary ethical issues: Coaching and the ethics of youth talent identification: rethinking luck and justice
  • Coaching and the ethics of performance enhancement
  • Ethical issues in coaching dangerous sports
  • A defense of expatriate coaching in sport.