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Watching the Web Ethical Issues in Coaching: a Webliography Reviewed by Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus The University of Calgary Library |

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.
Websites
Australian Sports Commission > Coaches > Participating in Sport
http://www.ausport.gov.au/participating/coaches/education/ethics
Has links to the Coaches’ Code of Behaviour and Play by the Rules.
The Australian Sports Commission also has an Ethics in Sport section
http://www.ausport.gov.au/supporting/ethics
Has section on Strategies and Initiatives along with many resources, lists of ethical issues,
Coaching Association of Canada, Ethics
http://www.coach.ca/eng/ethics/index.cfm
Has discussions on trust, ethical principles and resources that include two codes of ethics.
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.
Intute – Ethics in Sport and Leisure
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=114557
This database annotates and lists 36 sources on the topic of ethics in sport and leisure.
Scholarly Sport Sites – Section on Sports Charters, Codes, Declarations…..
Codes of Ethics
http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/ssportsite/biblio.html
WomenSport International > Task Forces > Sexual Harassment in Sport
http://www.sportsbiz.bz/womensportinternational/taskforces/harassment_brochure.htm
Note the WSI position statement on this ethical issue along with other information on their task force work.
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/
Council of Europe
Revised Code of Sport Ethics, rev. 2001, 4p.
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/epas/resources/texts/Rec%2892%2914rev_en.pdf
Engelhorn, Rich
Legal and ethical responsibilities of a coach
Iowa High School Athletic Association website, ca 2003, 4p.
http://www.iahsaa.org/RichEngelhorn.html
Fasting, Kari.
Preventing sexual harassment in sport – a need for transforming coach education?
Invited Paper, 6th European Conference on Women and Sport, Paris, April 23-25, 2004, 6p.
http://www.ews-online.org/files/doc/Conference-Paris/Fasting.pdf
McNamee, Mike
Ethics + sport (Teaching Resources, British Philosophy of Sport Association, reprinted with permission from the Learning and Teaching Support Network)
http://www.philosophyofsport.org.uk/ethsport.html
Robertson, Sheila.
Ethics Count with NHL Coach Mike Babcock
Ottawa: Coaching Association of Canada
http://www.coach.ca/eng/ethics/ethics-count.cfm
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.
Coaching Psychologist, 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.
National Association for Sport & Physical Education
Quality Coaches, Quality Sports: National Standards for Sport Coaches, 2nd Edition
Reston, VA: NASPE, 2006, 42p. Purchase at:
http://iweb.aahperd.org/iweb/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=304-10274
Contact
Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus
The University of Calgary Library, MLB 405A
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
gghent@ucalgary.ca
Scholarly Sport Sites website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/ssportsite/
North American Sport Library Network, http://libguides.ucalgary.ca/naslin

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