Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text

Brand: SAGE Publications Ltd

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$48.63 - $49.93
UPC:
9781848601642
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
7/31/2012
Release Date:
7/31/2012
Author:
Simon Western
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Coaching is often discussed as if it is a new profession without adequate attention to how it has evolved, what underpins its practice or its training methods. Situating coaching in a wider social and historical context, Coaching and Mentoring that contemporary coaching theory is more a collection of models and approaches mostly transferred from psychotherapy theory. Coaching claims to liberate creativity but can also entrap us by individualizing social experience. This vital new book brings a fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring, challenging its normative assumptions and narratives, and proposing an ethical and emancipatory approach that takes it beyond instrumentalism and individualism.