Studies in sports coaching

This book highlights the 'gritty' reality of sports coaching, inclusive of its messy and contested, as well as its humorous and self-actualising, nature. The text is initially given over to a critical deconstruction of coaching as a socio-pedagogic endeavour, before a subsequent reconstruction in terms of how it can be done better. In being the first to provide a distinct theorisation of sports coaching, the book marks a ground-breaking clearing of some of the conceptual fog that remains around the activity, and claims back for coaching some of the definitional rights conceded to other disciplines.