I.M. McEwan and W.G. Taylor Department of Exercise and Sport Science

1. Recasting the coach as a welfare agent: transprofessional possibilities in the age of new professionalism I.M. McEwan and W.G. Taylor Department of Exercise and Sport Science Manchester Metropolitan University

2. Overview • UK government policy and the role of the sports coach • How this relates to the professionalisation of sports coaching in the UK • Transprofessionalism and the sports coach • Barriers and beliefs • Moving into the future IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

3. Government policy and the repositioning of sport • London 2012 • Widening participation agenda • Out of school opportunities • Life health practices • Health and sustainability of funding for sport ‘take seriously the responsibilities for the health benefits of participation in sport at all levels’ (Richard Caborn, 2006) IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

4. Recasting of the sports coach through professionalisation • Integral and valid part of a health and welfare provision • general and specific use of sport • Interprofessional relationships • Transprofessionalism? IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

5. Transprofessionalism • ‘Third space thinking’ • ‘Occupational hybridity’ • (Hulme, Cracknell & Owens, 2009) • To prevent ‘falling through the gaps’ in services • Foster inter-agency knowledge • Sport? IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

6. Transprofessionalism • Increasing knowledge and sensibility towards others in related fields leading to advancements in practice • Seamless and integrated systems approach of a holistic management of provision • Knowledge, histories and responsibilities are shared by various professionals IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

7. Barriers and blocks • Can transprofessionalism be achieved without the vested spectre of power being ever present? • How will differing forms of capital affect professional ‘currency’ in a field? • Lack of training in the practicalities of transprofessional workings IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

8. Professional boundaries • Resistance towards fluidity of practice and understanding across professional boundaries • New vocabularies for collaboration • Boundary protectionism • Intra-professional isolationism IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

9. Moving forward • Understanding transprofessionalism • Training and knowledge • Taking opportunities • ‘highlights the gap between the new opportunities that occur as a result of any field change and the field participants with attitudes and practices that are needed to recognize, grasp and occupy these new field positions’ (Genfell, 2008, 135) IPR Conference June 2011: McEwan & Taylor

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