Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text

By Simon Western

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: A Critical Text reveals 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. Author Simon Western 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.

Key Features:

Accounts for how coaching has emerged and what discourses and normative practices underpin and influence contemporary coaching practiceDevelops a meta-theory of coaching that acts as a baseline for future developmentsOffers frames of thinking to support and guide coaching and mentoring practitioners and educators

This is a must read for coaches, mentors and coaching educators, and students and academics studying coaching and mentoring at both advanced undergraduate and graduate level.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848601646
• ISBN13: 9781848601642
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Sage Publishing Ltd
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"