Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848601642)

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.


Author: Simon Western
ISBN-10: 1848601646
ISBN-13: 9781848601642
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 0.80d