Athletic training as a profession traces back to Ancient Greece with the birth of athletics ( Ebel, 1999 ). The Greeks viewed Herodicus, a physician and a mentee of Hippocrates, as an athletic trainer (AT; Ebel, 1999 ). During the dark ages, athletic training went dormant until the 1800s ( Ebel
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Eleni Diakogeorgiou, R. Richard Ray Jr., Sara Brown, Jay Hertel, and Douglas J. Casa
Jeffrey Martin
profession do not mention job scarcity, or it appears as an afterthought, it is understandable that such articles, and the unintended consequence of what they imply (i.e., a healthy profession), drown out the few articles focused on the reality of the state of affairs (e.g., Andersen et al., 1997 ). It
Xiaofen D. Keating, Jingwen Liu, Xiaolu Liu, Jeff Colburn, Jianmin Guan, and Ke Zhou
). Unfortunately, Richards, Gaudreault, and Templin ( 2014 ) has noted that beliefs regarding the PE profession have not received much attention, which may have hindered the quality of PPET preparation. Given that teachers’ beliefs about their profession ultimately influence their career pathway ( Dündar, 2014
Bettina Callary, Diane Culver, Penny Werthner, and John Bales
High quality education programs across the globe could help coaching move forward as a profession. Although there have been suggestions to improve sports coaching education programs by integrating theory and practice through alternative learning approaches such as mentoring and critical refection (Armour, 2010; Cushion, Armour, & Jones, 2003), it is unclear whether such approaches have been implemented in coach education programs and how different countries are educating their coaches. The purpose of this paper is to describe how seven high performance coach education programs are educating coaches and to what extent they are employing alternative learning approaches. The goals, curricula, and pedagogical approaches are described and implications for the professionalization of coaching are discussed.
Patricia Vertinsky
In this paper I view the history of kinesiology in America through the lens of a shifting academic landscape where physical culture and building acted upon each other to reflect emergent views concerning the nature of training in physical education and scientific developments around human movement. It is also an organizational history that has been largely lived in the gymnasium and the laboratory from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its current arrangements in the academy. Historians have referred to this in appropriately embodied terms as the head and the heart of physical education, and of course the impact of gender, class, and race was ever present. I conclude that the profession/discipline conundrum in kinesiology that has ebbed and flowed in the shifting spaces and carefully organized places of the academy has not gone away in the twenty-first century and that the complexities of today’s training require more fertile and flexible collaborative approaches in research, teaching, and professional training.
Stacy Winter and David J. Collins
Although the field of applied sport psychology has developed, it faces further challenges on its way toward gaining greater professional status. The following principal criteria of professionalism are proposed as a test of such status: (a) provides an important public service, (b) has a knowledge-base underpinning, (c) has organizational regulation, (d) has a distinct ethical dimension, and (e) has professional autonomy. This article undertakes to explore the nature of implications for practice and the extent to which the suggested principal criteria justify a distinctive applied sport psychology profession. In doing so, we hope to stimulate debate on these and other issues in order that an even greater professionalization of our applied discipline may emerge.
Ahmed Al-Emadi, Nicholas D. Theodorakis, Donna Pastore, Abdellatif Sellami, and Abdulaye Diop
Coaching is considered a challenging profession and has been studied from a variety of perspectives. For example, studies have been completed on topics such as reasons to select and leave the profession ( Kamphoff & Gill, 2008 ; Pastore, Inglis, Danylchuk, 1996 ), coaching effectiveness ( Horn
Göran Kenttä, Marte Bentzen, Kristen Dieffenbach, and Peter Olusoga
High-performance (HP) coaching is a demanding profession that challenges mental health and sustainability in the profession ( Didymus, 2017 ). Coaches face constant pressure related to performance expectations, along with the perennial threat of negative consequences such as funding cuts and job
Hal A. Lawson
Specialized, theoretical knowledge is important to professions such as physical education as they attempt to gain and later maintain their status and control over the labor market. This knowledge must be monopolized and used in work by the profession’s members if they are to be granted this status and control by society’s members. Upon examination physical educationists do not enjoy a knowledge monopoly, nor do they appear to use their specialized, theoretical knowledge in work. Chief among the explanations offered are the limitations in the positivist conception of knowledge for the professions and the different frames of reference for researchers and practitioners. Analyses of the monopoly and use of knowledge in professions such as physical education yield insights about the ways in which knowledge is articulated and contested, the internal and external relationships of the profession, and the relationship among the structure of knowledge, the professions, and social theory.
Matea Wasend and Nicole M. LaVoi
Sport Coaching The research is clear: women are vastly underrepresented in sport coaching profession across sports, levels, and positions. While over 90% of US collegiate women’s teams were coached by women in 1972, that percentage declined steadily even as Title IX prompted an increase in opportunities
