Sports Coaching Cultures: From Practice to Theory

by Paul Potrac, Robyn L. Jones, Kathleen M. Armour, et al.

Book Overview

'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club.

Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this groundbreaking new coaching studies text offers a view that focuses the coach as a person and the coaching practice as a complex social encounter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415328527
• ISBN13: 9780415328524
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"