Watching the Web
Ethical Issues in Coaching: a Webliography
Reviewed by
Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus
The University of Calgary Library
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The topic, ethics in coaching, covers a wide range of subjects. In many statements on ethics made by institutions and professional groups, positive goals and objectives are also included. When using Google or other search engines, many different keywords may be used (see the following websites for the terminology to use). For the online library catalogues, the following subject headings should be employed:
Coaching (athletics) – Moral and ethical aspects
Coach – Athlete relationships
The websites, fulltext documents and online resources listed here cover many of the issues of coaching ethics and provide enquirers with a place to start the research process.
International Council for Coach Education: Ethics in Coaching
http://www.icce.ws/ethics/index.htm
Includes fulltext documents on ethics in coaching or codes of ethics from the International Tennis Federation, Australian Sports Commission, Coaching Association of Canada, Finnish Sports Federation and the United States Olympic Committee.
Open access fulltext documents
Dodge, Ann and Robertson, Brenda
Justifications for Unethical Behaviour in Sport: The Role of the Coach
Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching, v4, no4, 2004,
http://www.coach.ca/women/e/journal/may2004/
Werthner, Penny and Coleman, John
Sport psychology consulting with Canadian Olympic athletes and coaches: values and ethical considerations
Athletic Insight: the online journal of sport psychology, v10, no4, Dec 2008
(Special issue on Ethics in Sport Psychology)
http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol10Iss4/104IssueHome.htm
Books available via Google Books, http://books.google.com/
There are a number of books listed in Google Books, many with limits on what can be viewed. This may change in 2010 if Google and the publisher’s associations come to an agreement on copyright and royalty issues. For instance, the following book is available in part:
Storm, Hannah & Jenkins, Mark
Go girl!: raising healthy, confident and successful girls through sport.
Naperville, Ill: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2002
See especially Chapter 7 on the coach’s role.
Selected fulltext articles in Sportdiscus Database
Passmore, Jonathan.
Coaching ethics: making ethical decisions – novices and experts.
CoachingPsychologist, Jun2009, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p6
Drewe, S.B.
Coaches, ethics and autonomy,
Sport, Education & Society Oct 2000: Vol. 5 Issue 2. p. 147-162
Online books by subscription
Many university and college libraries subscribe to online book collections. The resources are available for that institution’s faculty, staff and students. Note that most of the following books are available in a print edition also. The following are selected from these online book collections:
Paulo, David
Human Rights in Youth Sport: Ethics and Sport
London/New York: Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2005.
Discusses education, certification and licensing of youth coaches. Has a chapter on violence and ethics. Available via NetLibrary subscription
http://www.netlibrary.com/
Kirby, Sandra, Greaves, Lorraine, and Hankivsky, Olga
The dome of silence: sexual harassement and abuse in sport.
Fernwood Publishing, 2000
Available by subscription via ebrary Academic Complete
McNamee, M.J. and Parry, S.J., eds.
Ethics and sport
NY: Routledge, 1998, 298p.
Available by subscription via ebrary Academic Complete
Selected print publications
Alberts, Carol L.
Coaching Issues & Dilemmas: Character Building Through Sport Participation
Reston, VA: NASPE, 2003, 167p.
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