1st Edition

Sports Coaching in Europe Cultural Histories

Edited By Dave Day Copyright 2021
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context, resulting in different countries being characterized by different coaching traditions. By helping us to understand the history of coaching... Read more

Contributors

Introduction
Dave Day

Chapter 1. Intangible Cultural Heritages: British Sports Coaching and Amateurism.
Dave Day

Chapter 2. Building the New Man: Transnational Training and Trainers in the Netherlands before the First World War.
Nick Piercey

Chapter 3. ‘Science Says’: Swedish Sports Coaching and Science During the Twentieth Century.
Daniel Svensson and Robert Svensson

Chapter 4. Gender Equity and Sports Coaching in Norway: Political Discourses and Developmental Trajectories from 1970 to 2020.
Anne Tjønndal

Chapter 5. Women’s Work: Gender and the Coaching Profession in British Rowing.
Lisa Taylor

Chapter 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).
Jean-François Loudcher, Julien Krier and Eric Claverie

Chapter 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).
Serge Vaucelle

Chapter 8. The Influence of Foreign Coaches on the Development of Italian Sport.
Gherardo Bonini, Sergio Giuntini and Nicola Sbetti

Chapter 9. The Development of the Spanish Coach: Franco’s Dictatorship to Democracy (1939-1992).
Carlos García-Martí and Juan Antonio Simón

Index

Biography

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.