A History of Sports Coaching in Britain - Day, Dave; Carpenter, Tegan
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This is the first book to examine the full history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key individuals in British coaching. Tracing the continuing impact of the nineteenth century amateur ethos throughout the twentieth century, and the influence of developments in international coaching, particularly in North America and the Eastern Bloc, the book illuminates the origins of the organisations…mehr

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This is the first book to examine the full history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key individuals in British coaching. Tracing the continuing impact of the nineteenth century amateur ethos throughout the twentieth century, and the influence of developments in international coaching, particularly in North America and the Eastern Bloc, the book illuminates the origins of the organisations and philosophies that surround performance sport in Britain today.
Autorenporträt
Dave Day is Reader in Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include the history of sports coaching and constructing the biographies of coaches. His book Professionals, Amateurs and Performance: Sports Coaching in England, 1789-1914 was published in 2012 Tegan Carpenter is a Sports Lecturer at Bath College, UK, where her research interests have centred on the history of coaching practice and training in the twentieth century.