College Coaches and Teaching Civil Society Literacy

Off the Bench, Into the Curriculum

Daniel R. Gilbert Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

558 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5658-0 (ISBN)

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This is a book about a treasure hidden on college campuses across the United States. This treasure is the expertise that college coaches acquire as they do their life work in intercollegiate athletic competition. In their work, coaches routinely join to sustain relationships among parties who hold very different interests as they meet in scheduled athletic competition. This expertise is a treasure for General Education, because General Education entails preparing adults to live thoughtfully and with civility in the company of one another. This treasure is hidden, because coaches are customarily ineligible to teach in the academic program.The author shows that such exclusion is optional. He charts a pathway for bringing coaches "off the bench" and into General Education teaching. He presents plans with which college faculty and coaches can join to assemble texts for teaching learners about claiming places in something larger than career and familiar comfort. In the precise grammar of these texts, the author demonstrates that college coaches are positioned to contribute comprehensively to the advancement of General Education.

Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr., is Professor Emeritus, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He earned a BA from Dickinson College, MBA from Lehigh University, and PhD from the University of Minnesota, all USA. For 27 years, Dr Gilbert taught undergraduate learners to practice habits of disciplined inquiry in courses about organizations, civil society, and competition. His most recent book emerged from that teaching: A Civil Society Teaching Primer: Seeing Through Water (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025). As a three-sport high school athlete and a four-year college basketball player, Gilbert has a long history of working in conversation with coaches. He annually invited coaches to join his class discussions as Guest Competitors. At the intersection of his modest basketball accomplishments (433 college career points) and his college teaching, Gilbert authors a new book in which he charts a central, comprehensive, and unexpected place for college coaches in the General Education teaching endeavor.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-0364-5658-7 / 1036456587
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5658-0 / 9781036456580
Zustand	Neuware