Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text

Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text
ISBN-10
1848601646
ISBN-13
9781848601642
Series
Coaching and Mentoring
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2012-07-18
Publisher
SAGE
Author
Simon Western

Description

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.

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