Tenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

The recent academic literature has sought to understand how the education programs for sports coaches can be elaborated efficiently, optimizing the integration between theoretical and practice aspects. This study aims to collaborate on the production of knowledge about this theme. First, we detailed the scenario of initial education in the coaches’ career in Brazil. Next, we described the educational activities promoted by the Olympic summer sports confederations during the year 2016. This period is particularly relevant because it was the year in which the country hosted the Olympic Games. Then, through content analysis we classified such activities according to categories. Finally, we discussed the coherence between the initial education proposal for coaches and what confederations held as a proposal for continuing education, and the activities offered by the confederations analyzed considering the literature on coaching development and learning. The results indicated 224 educational activities were promoted by confederations in 2016. Some confederations had specific departments, and commissions focused on sports education and science, and a public document related to their conception of continuing education for coaches. It was verified that regard to the learning situation the majority of the activities were mediated. The main context focus on these activities was the development of sport, and in these activities, the target audience was newcomer’s coaches and coaches in general. It was also verified there is a prevalence of contents related to sport technic and tactics, followed by pedagogy, physiology and biomechanics in the activities promoted.