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| Title: | Ostrich or eagle? Protection and professionalism in sport science and coaching |
| Authors: | Brackenridge, C H |
| Date of Issue: | 2001 |
| Citation: | Keynote address to the Annual Conference of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Sport and exercise in the real millennium – our way forward, Department of Humanities and Science, University of Wales College, Newport, South Wales, September 4-7th 2001 |
| Abstract: | In this presentation I examine the processes of professionalisation and mutual development within and between two occupational groups in the UK - sport and exercise scientists and sports coaches. At the outset I acknowledge the ‘cultural turn’ in science and use my own positionality, based on 30 years of experience within both communities, to inform the analysis. The main questions addressed here are whether these two interdependent groups have found a satisfactory professional relationship and how they have adjusted to the destabilising forces of late modernity. The issue of child protection in sport is used as a case study through which to examine these questions. The readiness of the two groups to acknowledge and embrace associated ethical and professional practices differs considerably. It is argued that sports coaching has addressed protection issues much more readily and effectively than has sport science. It is also suggested that the preoccupation of sport science with scholarl... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2438/620 |
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | Sport Sciences School of Sport and Education Research Papers |
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