Disability sport coaching: "You just coach the athlete, not the disability"

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dc.contributor.authorCushion, Chrisen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorHuntley, Taboen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorTownsend, Robert C.en_NZ
dc.contributor.editorWallis, Jamesen_NZ
dc.contributor.editorLambert, Johnen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-04T21:00:36Z
dc.date.available2020-11-04T21:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2020en_NZ
dc.description.abstractDisability and parasport provide visibility and representation of disability and disabled people, providing a space where cultural understandings of ‘disability’ can be challenged and reshaped. As a result, disability and parasport is often assumed a ‘non-disabling’ site or associated with disability ‘empowerment’ and identity work, that is resisting and reconstructing negative disability-specific associations. The disability and parasport field, is therefore, replete with the encouragement and development of ‘athlete-first’ or ‘athlete-centred’ discourses. However, few critically interrogate these notions, and as a concept ‘athlete-centred’ has become ‘taken-for-granted’, is presented uncritically and enthusiastically accepted as a ‘good’ for disability and parasport. The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to discourses on the social construction of disability in sport and through coaching. In particular, challenging the notion of ‘coach the athlete not the disability’ discourses as ‘empowerment’, highlighting the sometimes unintended consequences of well-intended actions that reside in in social formations where power relations mediate.
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dc.identifier.citationCushion, C., Huntley, T., & Townsend, R. C. (2020). Disability sport coaching: ‘You just coach the athlete, not the disability’. In J. Wallis & J. Lambert (Eds.), Sport Coaching with Diverse Populations: Theory and Practice. Routledge.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/13938
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfSport Coaching with Diverse Populations: Theory and Practiceen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.routledge.com/e/9780367854799
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Sport Coaching with Diverse Populations on October 25, 2020, available online: http://www.routledge.com/e/9780367854799
dc.titleDisability sport coaching: "You just coach the athlete, not the disability"en_NZ
dc.typeChapter in Book
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pubs.publisher-urlhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367854799en_NZ
pubs.user.infoTownsend, Robert (rtownsen@waikato.ac.nz)
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