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The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going. The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections: Part One: Positioning Coaching as a Discipline Part Two: Coaching as a Process Part Three: Common Issues in Coaching Part Four: Coaching in Contexts Part Five: Researching Coaching Part Six: Development of Coaches It provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, educators and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with current research and debate in the academic and influential practitioners' literature on coaching.
Discipline, Profession and Industry: How our Choices Shape our Future
Discipline, Profession and Industry: How our Choices Shape our Future
INTRODUCTION
The coach began as a technology used for transportation, evolved into an object that was associated with a type of status and then becomes a prominent character in sport, before ultimately becoming an influential management concept. (Stec 2012, p. 331)
This historian of coaching makes the rather tongue in cheek comment as he seeks to identify the tensions inherent in exploring the professional and scientific legitimacy of the occupation. Others have also explored potential antecedents to coaching, for example see Garvey, Stokes and Megginson (2014). At the time of writing the practice of coaching is definitely an industry, could be underpinned by a discipline ...
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