Sports Coaching in Europe: Cultural Histories

ISBN-13: 9780367542689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 190 str.

Dave Day

Opis

This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. Intangible Cultural Heritages: British Sports Coaching and Amateurism.  2. Building the New Man: Transnational Training and Trainers in the Netherlands before the First World War.  3. ‘Science Says’: Swedish Sports Coaching and Science During the Twentieth Century.  4. Gender Equity and Sports Coaching in Norway: Political Discourses and Developmental Trajectories from 1970 to 2020.  5. Women’s Work: Gender and the Coaching Profession in British Rowing.  6. Sports Coaching in France: Between an Eclectic Context and Foreign Influences (1852-1970). Part I: Sports Coaching: An Unknown Notion in an Eclectic Sporting Context (1852-1945).  7. Sports Coaching in France: Between an Eclectic Context and Foreign Influences (1820-1970). Part II: From Foreign Influences to the Invention of a French Coaching Method (1940-1970).  8. The Influence of Foreign Coaches on the Development of Italian Sport.  9. The Development of the Spanish Coach: Franco’s Dictatorship to Democracy (1939-1992).

O autorze

Dave Day is Professor of Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where his research focuses on the history of coaching and training, the development of swimming and swimming communities, and the gendered nature of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sport and leisure.