The purpose of this chapter is to critically examine contemporary sports coaching, and to consider how social ecology might provide a valuable framework for critiquing current expectations placed on coaches, and how a socio-ecological approach may improve coaching practice. There are significant and diverse demands now being placed on the 'grassroots' community coach that are under-researched and under-theorised within the academic community and rarely considered by coach educators and policy makers. This chapter firstly uses a socio-ecological framework to deconstruct some of the assumptions which underpin 'sport for social good' projects. Secondly, a socio-ecological approach is presented as a possible alternative way to underpin sports coaching that is seeking to lead to certain wider social outcomes. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the holistic vision encouraged by a socio-ecological framework can offer a great deal for conceptualising of effective sports coaching.
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Jeanes, R., Magee, J., & O’Connor, J. (2014). Through coaching: Examining a socio-ecological approach to sports coaching. In The Socioecological Educator: A 21st Century Renewal of Physical, Health,Environment and Outdoor Education (Vol. 9789400771673, pp. 89–107). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7167-3_5
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