Sports Coaching in Europe

Cultural Histories

Dave Day (Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire, UK)

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Routledge
09 January 2023

Social & cultural history; Sports training & coaching

Series: Routledge Research in Sports History

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 across Europe, this book allows us to better understand both the history of sport and the cultural and social history of Western European nations. Drawing on cutting-edge historical research by international scholars, the book presents studies of coaching cultures in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom. It explores how sporting histories, cultural attitudes, and social contexts resulted in distinctive coaching heritages, which were further shaped through coach migration and the adoption of elements of other countries’ coaching structures. This book explores these phenomena to provide critical evidence of the historical impact of culture on the development of sports coaching.

The book offers insight into the characteristics of European coaching traditions. It will be fascinating reading for academics in sports history, sports and coaching studies, gender studies, and transnational studies, as well as those with an interest in British or European history and social and cultural history.

Edited by: Dave Day (Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780367542702
ISBN 10: 0367542706
Series: Routledge Research in Sports History
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. 1. Intangible Cultural Heritages: British Sports Coaching and Amateurism. 2. Building the New Man: Transnational Training and Trainers in the Netherlands before the First World War. 3. ‘Science Says’: Swedish Sports Coaching and Science During the Twentieth Century. 4. Gender Equity and Sports Coaching in Norway: Political Discourses and Developmental Trajectories from 1970 to 2020. 5. Women’s Work: Gender and the Coaching Profession in British Rowing. 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). 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). 8. The Influence of Foreign Coaches on the Development of Italian Sport. 9. The Development of the Spanish Coach: Franco’s Dictatorship to Democracy (1939-1992).

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.