Coaching and Coach Education in Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Milistetd ◽  
Pierre Trudel ◽  
Isabel Mesquita ◽  
Juarez Vieira do Nascimento

In Brazil, contrary to the situation in many countries, sport coaching at all levels is considered a profession. Following a law passed by the government, those who want to coach are required to earn a university diploma called a ‘Bachelor in Physical Education’. This bachelor’s degree prepares future professionals to work in any of the following areas: health, leisure, and sport performance. Because universities have some fexibility regarding the courses that they offer and can also focus on one or any combination of the three aforementioned areas, we cannot assume that graduate students have acquired the same knowledge and developed the same competencies. Therefore, a broad inquiry of what is provided by different universities was needed to create a picture of the curriculum that future sport coaches will experience. In an effort to situate the Brazilian coaching and coach education system within a worldwide perspective, the data collected are interpreted using the International Sport Coaching Framework (ISCF).

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastián Feu ◽  
Javier García-Rubio ◽  
Antonio Antúnez ◽  
Sergio Ibáñez

The purpose of this paper is to describe the status of coaching and coach education in Spain. Particular emphasis is placed on legislative evolution of the qualifications of sport coaches and the repercussions it has had on the sport and education system. The formal training of sport coaches in Spain has undergone many legislative changes since the promulgation of the Constitution in 1978. This period of legislative changes has been long and has not ended as a single process. Transitory provisions are still being used to impart and approve training courses. The changes adopted have served to introduce sport teaching into the Spanish education system as a special education system; and to homogenize the study plans, the requisites for teachers who give the courses and the administrative procedures, among the different sport disciplines. The equalization of professional sport qualifications at the European level is now more feasible.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Hedlund ◽  
Carol A. Fletcher ◽  
Simon M. Pack ◽  
Sean Dahlin

Around the world, there is a growing movement to improve sport coaching education. In recent years, the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) has begun to address questions related to the education, training and development of sport coaches through the publication of the International Sport Coaching Framework (ISCF) and the Sport Coaching Bachelor Degree Standards (SCBDS). In the United States, because sport coaches can undertake a wide variety of coaching-related educational opportunities, the United States Olympic Committee has taken steps to address the disparity in training through the publishing of the Quality Coaching Framework (QCF). All of these documents provide valuable information about the best principles for educating and training sport coaches. While principles, standards and theories provide valuable overarching information about how to organize education, specific information about what topics should actually be taught in education programs is still lacking. In this manuscript, utilizing principles of participation versus performance sport and professional knowledge, intra- and interpersonal skills, information about what and when to teach important sport coaching topics is proposed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Avner ◽  
Pirkko Markula ◽  
Jim Denison

Drawing on a modified version of Foucault’s (1972) analysis of discursive formations, we selected key coach education texts in Canada to examine what discourses currently shape effective coaching in Canada in order to detect what choices Canadian coaches have to know about “being an effective coach.” We then compared the most salient aspects of our reading to the International Sport Coaching Framework. Our Foucauldian reading of the two Canadian coach education websites showed that the present set of choices for coaches to practice “effectively” is narrow and that correspondingly the potential for change and innovation is limited in scope. Our comparison with the International Sport Coaching Framework, however, showed more promise as we found that its focus on the development of coach competences allowed for different coaching knowledges and coaching aims than a narrow focus on performance and results. We then conclude this Insights Paper by offering some comments on the implications of our Foucauldian reading as well as some suggestions to address our concerns about the dominance of certain knowledges and the various effects of this dominance for athletes, coaches, coach development and the coaching profession at large.


Author(s):  
Chiedza Simbo

Despite the recent enactment of the Zimbabwean Constitution which provides for the right to basic education, complaints, reminiscent of a failed basic education system, have marred the education system in Zimbabwe. Notwithstanding glaring violations of the right to basic education by the government, no person has taken the government to court for failure to comply with its section 75(1)(a) constitutional obligations, and neither has the government conceded any failures or wrongdoings. Two ultimate questions arise: Does the state know what compliance with section 75(1)(a) entails? And do the citizens know the scope and content of their rights as provided for by section 75(1)(a) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe? Whilst it is progressive that the Education Act of Zimbabwe as amended in 2020 has addressed some aspects relating to section 75(1)(a) of the Constitution, it has still not provided an international law compliant scope and content of the right to basic education neither have any clarifications been provided by the courts. Using an international law approach, this article suggests what the scope and content of section 75(1)(a) might be.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
UMESH SRIVASTAVA

In order to revitalize Indian education system, the Government of India has recently approved National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) and proposed sweeping changes including opening up of Indian higher education to foreign universities, dismantling of the UGC and the AICTE, introduction of a 4-year multidisciplinary undergraduate program with multiple exit options, and discontinuation of the M Phil program. It aims at making ‘India a global knowledge superpower’. In the light of National Education Policy-2020, agricultural education system needs to be redefined in India as it increases knowledge or information and farmer’s capacity to learn. As the level of agricultural education increases, farmers will become more and more self-reliant and will depend more on their self-studies dealing with farming. It is suggested that reorientation of agricultural higher education in context of globalization, food security, diversification, sustainability of ecosystems, and agribusiness is necessary. The curriculum of agricultural higher education needs to be made more broad based and manpower has to be trained scientifically in topics such as biotechnology, genetic engineering, agro-meteorology, environmental science, agro-ecology, computer application, information technology, conservation of natural and human resources, specialized job-oriented courses, and trade and export in agribusiness. Finally, adequate emphasis should be placed on practical skills and entrepreneurial capabilities among the students to achieve excellence. To properly address the challenges faced by today’s Indian agriculture, competent human resource in sufficiently large numbers would be required in the near future. There is a vast scope for young graduates to undertake agriculture as their profession which is directly or indirectly contributing to the economic and social development of the country.


1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Charlotte Hanner

Big changes in the educational system of Sweden took place in 1992/1993 because of political changes in the government. Earlier the government and parliament made decisions about course details at the different universities, and research education was offered only by the universities, and not by the colleges. In the early 1970s the College of Librarianship in Borås was commissioned by the government to offer a two-year academic level supplementary course in librarianship. Until the spring term in 1993, education for librarianship in Borås changed course several times, and five years ago courses in art and music librarianship, which had given students some insights in art history, were discontinued. Beginning in the autumn of 1993 the education system in Sweden will be much freer, implying that every university and college will be permitted to make its own decisions about courses. And from now on courses in librarianship will be offered by the universities in Umeå, Stockholm (starting spring 1994) and Lund, as well as in Borås. Librarianship at the research level was established three years ago at Göteborg University in close cooperation with the college of librarianship in Borås


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-372
Author(s):  
A.J. Rankin-Wright ◽  
Jason Tee ◽  
Tom Mitchell ◽  
Ian Cowburn ◽  
Kevin Till ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-191
Author(s):  
Siti Ruzana Ab Ghani ◽  
Rahilah Omar ◽  
Azlizan Mat Enh ◽  
Russli Kamaruddin

Artikel ini membincangkan sumbangan Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) terhadap masyarakat Melayu di Malaysia dalam menangani isu-isu sosioekonomi, 1971-2000-an. Kajian artikel ini dilakukan untuk mengisi kekurangan penulisan terhadap sumbangan badan NGO Islam bukan kerajaan yang dikenali sebagai gerakan Islam ABIM kepada masyarakat Melayu dalam menangani isu-isu sosioekonomi. Isu-isu sosioekonomi masyarakat Melayu selepas merdeka adalah sangat meruncing dan ini ditambah lagi dengan kesan Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) yang diperkenalkan pada tahun 1970. Masyarakat Melayu masih terpinggir dari aspek sosioekonomi khususnya pendidikan Islam dan jurang pendapatan masih membimbangkan. Maka gerakan Islam ABIM bangkit membantu masyarakat Melayu dalam menangani isu-isu sosioekonomi ini. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah pendekatan disiplin sejarah dengan menganalisis dokumen terhadap sumber primer seperti Laporan Tahunan ABIM, Risalah, Siaran Media, Kenyataan Akhbar, Ucapan Dasar Muktamar dan melalui temu bual. Sumber sekunder pula dikumpul daripada kajian perpustakaan berdasarkan bahan ilmiah, buku, akhbar dan data atas talian. Hasil kajian membuktikan bahawa dari aspek sosial sistem pendidikan dalam gerakan Islam ABIM berjaya memenuhi keperluan sistem pendidikan Islam kepada masyarakat Melayu selari dengan pendidikan nasional. Sistem pendidikan dalam gerakan Islam ABIM yang terancang dan tersusun memberikan kesan kepada lahirnya pendidikan diniah. Manakala dari aspek ekonomi pula gerakan Islam ABIM telah menubuhkan Koperasi Belia Islam Malaysia Berhad (KBI) yang dapat menambah pendapatan masyarakat Melayu khususnya dalam kalangan ahli semakin meningkat.  Gerakan Islam ABIM juga secara tidak langsung dapat membantu pihak kerajaan Malaysia menyeimbangkan sosioekonomi penduduk khususnya masyarakat Melayu sehingga tahun 2000. This article discusses the contribution of Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM) of the Malay community in Malaysia in addressing socio-economic issues, 1971-2000. This article studies conducted to fill the lack of movement ABIM writing contributions in addressing socio-economic issues of the community. ABIM movement arose to help the Malay community in addressing the socio-economic issues. This study uses the method of historical discipline approach by analyzing documents on primary sources such as ABIM Annual Report, Brochures, Media Releases, Press Statements, Muktamar Policy Speeches and through interviews. Secondary resources were collected from library studies based on scientific materials, books, newspapers and online data. The results prove that the social aspects of the education system in the Islamic movement ABIM successfully meet the needs of the education system to the community in line with the national education. The planned and organized education system in the ABIM Islamic movement has an impact on the birth of education today. Whereas the economic aspects of the Islamic movement ABIM also established the Cooperative Belia Islam Malaysia Berhad (IAC), which can increase the income of the community, especially among members is increasing. The Islamic movement ABIM also indirectly help the government balance the socio-economic conditions, especially the Malays until 2000.


Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Jordan Maclean

One might assume that sport coaches are experts in coaching relationally as they do, after all, have to consider how their lieutenants work together in any given practice. If true, then coach developers, who coach the coaches, might be thought of as superior experts in relational provision. If also true, then a relational inquiry into coach education programmes is necessary for conceptualising learning. But previous conceptualisations of learning have neither considered relational analyses nor viewed learning as something that is not derivative from the coach. In this article, I examine how materials participate in and the ways materiality shapes two coach developers’ practices. Methodologically, I draw inspiration from actor-network theory, which is a sociomaterial approach that focuses on the relations of humans and nonhumans in practices. Methods include the ‘interview to the double’ ( Nicolini 2009 ), followed by observations during two level one coach education programmes: children and youth. Two vignettes of cones and the CD-ROM describe how social and material relations come together and shape coach developers’ practices in surprising and unexpected ways. The coach developers grappled with their ‘educator’ role so that coaches were better prepared to articulate the materiality of practices. Based on my analysis, I conclude by making a case for a material engagement with coach development.


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