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Paralympic Legacies

Published on July 11, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Paralympic Legacies edited by David Legg and Keith Gilbert is available as part of the  Sport and Society series.

Dr Keith Gilbert will be joining us for the 2012 Sport and Society Conference in London.

Dr. Keith Gilbert is a Professor in the School of Health & Bioscience at the University of East London and Director of the Centre for Disability, Sport & Health. He researches in the area of sport sociology [which includes opening up many areas of research innovation] and disability of sport and has a strong interest in qualitative, interpretive and narrative research methodologies. He has numerous publications and has edited several books in the broad areas of sport, sociology, cultural studies, environment and disability.

Dr. Gilbert has written over 55 published research articles. He has been an Executive Board Member of the International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) and is currently on the publications Board of (ICSSPE). He has won university awards for teaching and also professional development and given numerous keynote conference presentations. Dr. Gilbert has several PhD students working across different areas of sport and society. His own current research interests include the exploration of the sociological dimensions of sport, sport and the environment, legacy and Paralympic research. Professor Gilbert is chief editor of the International Journal of Sport in Society and he has two book series one in the area of Disability and Sport and the other in the broad area of Sport in Society. Professor Gilbert was also the organiser and chair of a conference on Sport in Society with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in March 2010 between the Winter Olympics and Paralympics and will continue the Sport and Society conferences in Kolkata 2011 and Cambridge 2012.

Paralympic Legacies

Published on June 27, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Paralympic Legacies edited by David Legg and Keith Gilbert is now available as part of the  Sport and Society series.

Legacy remains one of the most important issues relating to multisport mega-events across the globe and it could be argued that the development of legacy is one of the most urgent imperatives in elite sport. In this regard the Paralympics is no exception to the quest for long term legacy; however, little in the way of documentation appears to be forthcoming from the International Paralympic community in this regard. This book reviews the concept of legacy across previous Paralympic Games by providing a series of chapters under the headings of ‘The Paralympic Legacy Debate’, ‘Paralympic City Legacies’, ‘Emerging Issues of Paralympic Legacy’ and ‘Reconceptualising Paralympic Legacies’. The issues arising are discussed in terms of a meta-analysis of the author’s work and offer interesting ideas which if taken up by the International Paralympic Committee, International Olympic Committee, Bid Committees, OCOG’s and major sports could change the face of Paralympic legacy towards the positive forever.

Coaching A Family

Published on January 13, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 1 Comment

From Matt Gaschk on Sounders FC:

Sounders FC broadcaster and former Seattle U coach Pete Fewing recently published a book about successful leadership techniques.

There are lawyers, teachers, doctors and dentists.  There has been a few to go on to play as professionals, but only one can still call himself a pro soccer player.  Regardless of where they ended up, though, they always come back.

That was the nature of Seattle University soccer when Peter Fewing was at the helm.

When he took over the team, they had nine consecutive losing seasons.  Under his watch, they fielded a Rhodes Scholar and had a near-100 percent graduation rate.  All while developing two National Players of the Year and winning National Championships in 1997 at the NAIA level and 2004 as an NCAA Division II outfit.

All with the family environment that not only made the teams successful, but also made the athletes great individuals who went on to personal success, regardless of the field.

Those leadership skills and techniques are the basis of Fewing’s new book, authored by Fewing and former assistant coach Herbert L. Hoffman.  However, “Coaching Principles for the Development of Championship Teams: On and Beyond the Pitch” is not about one of the most successful coaches Seattle sports has seen.  Instead each player tells the story of why the team was successful.

“What is really rewarding is to pick it up at any time and read the stories.  There are so many great stories in there,” Fewing said.

Continue reading…

Coaching Principles for the Development of Championship Teams: On and Beyond the Pitch

Published on November 18, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

coaching-cover_v3_frontCoaching Principles for the Development of Championship Teams: On and Beyond the Pitch by Herbert (Herbie) Louis Hoffman and Peter R.J. Fewing is now available from the Sport and Society imprint.

Coaching student-athletes is a moral endeavor. Despite countless hours of time, dedication and effort, the stark reality for the vast majority of youth and college athletes is that they will not become professional athletes. With this in mind, what should parents, educators, citizens and even student-athletes expect from coaches? Can athletic coaches model authentic leadership? Is it possible to prepare student-athletes for their lives beyond the field of play in highly competitive settings?

Through the voices of former players, a powerful story emerges of how Peter Fewing built a nationally recognized soccer program from obscurity that earned a #4 collegiate ranking in 2010 from U.S. News and World Report for college soccer facilities.

Despite inheriting a program that had nine losing seasons in a row, Fewing led teams to the 1997 NAIA and 2004 NCAA national championship titles, developed two National Players of the Year, and achieved nearly a 100 percent graduation rate – including a 1994 Rhode Scholar. In addition, Coach Fewing spearheaded efforts for a new soccer stadium and established the foundation for a NCAA Division I soccer program while twice receiving Seattle University’s Presidential award for campus leadership. At the center of this success was Coach Fewing’s understanding that few if any of the players he coached would play professional soccer.

Now Coach Fewing shares the guiding leadership principles he used to educate his players and achieve authentic and transformational leadership. This book explores how and why these principles enabled Coach Fewing and his players to accomplish championship results both on and beyond the soccer pitch.

Series: Sport and Society

Published on August 8, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

We are accepting book proposals for the imprint Sport and Society.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

Embodying Dixie: Studies in the Body Pedagogics of Southern Whiteness

Published on June 17, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

dixie_cover_frontEmbodying Dixie: Studies in the Body Pedagogics of Southern Whiteness by Joshua I. Newman is now available from the Sport and Society imprint.

Embodying Dixie offers a critical exploration into how race-based identities are formed in and around the educative bodies of the US South. Using historiographic and ethnographic methods to analyze the pedagogies and practices at the University of Mississippi (more reverently known as ‘Ole Miss’), the interrelated studies within this book bring into focus how transformational episodes such as the US Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II, Brown v. Board, and the Civil Rights Movement—as well as more recent events such as September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina—have influenced the physical and social relations on the campus and beyond.

This book canvases a university defined by a history of slavery, segregation, and exclusion; a university that has in recent years brought international notoriety for preserving symbols (i.e. the Confederate flag or the school sporting mascot, ‘Colonel Reb’), practices (i.e. the ‘Confederate Lawn Party’ or songs of the Old South), and spaces (i.e. campus monuments) of the Confederate South. Through this detour deep into the heart of Dixie, we learn important lessons about citizenship, power, and politics in US cultural life. In sum, Embodying Dixie tells the story of an institution still wrestling with an exclusionary past on its way toward a more inclusive future.