Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as
important as expertise in sports skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth …

Coach–athlete sexual relationships constitute ethical, behavioral, social, and emotional
quandaries that are rarely addressed openly. Most of the current body of research in this …

The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of highly skilled and less skilled
volleyball players about the influences that parents, coaches, and peers had on their sport …

Sport coaching scholars extol the hope that relations of care will bring to sport. Yet, the
insidious nature of relations of power and domination have been under-theorised with …

While the topic of caring coaching and its relationship to performance has been explored by
researchers mainly in the UK, it has been neglected in the US with the exception of three …

This study aimed to examine the indirect teaching strategies adopted by a coach educator in
terms of promoting student-coaches' engagement in a positive and active learning …

In this article, we investigate 'no touch policies' as a practical teacher concern that includes
the body as a location, a source and a means in educational activity. We argue that to …

Physical contact between adults and children in educational setting has been a well
debated subject in research over the past 20 years. Although physical contact is often …

Coaches need to be competent in their profession and act in different domains. They have to
be instructors, motivators, strategists, organizers and character builders (Gould, 1987) and …

Sports Coaching: The Basics is an engaging and provocative introduction to sports coaching
which combines coaches' views and experiences of their work with discussions and topical …