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Coaching is often discussed as if it is a new “profession’ without adequate attention to how it has evolved, what underpins its practice or its training methods. Situating coaching in a wider social and historical context, Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text reveals that contemporary ‘coaching theory’ is more a collection of models and approaches mostly transferred from psychotherapy theory. Coaching claims to liberate creativity but can also entrap us by individualizing social experience. Author Simon Western brings a fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring, challenging its normative assumptions and narratives, and proposing an ethical and emancipatory approach that takes it beyond instrumentalism and individualism.
Key Features:
- Accounts for how coaching has emerged and what discourses and normative practices underpin and influence contemporary coaching practice
- Develops a meta-theory of coaching that acts as a baseline for future developments
- Offers frames of thinking to support and guide coaching and mentoring practitioners and educators
This is a must read for coaches, mentors and coaching educators, and students and academics studying coaching and mentoring at both advanced undergraduate and graduate level.
Scoping the Field: Definitions and Divergence of Practice
Scoping the Field: Definitions and Divergence of Practice
- Coaching and mentoring: differentiated or merged? Definition of terms
- Coaching and mentoring: ordering and categorizing
- A typology of mentoring
- A typology of coaching
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
Coaching and Mentoring: Differentiated or Merged?
Coaching and mentoring are contested and confused terms that embrace multiple ...
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