Athletes' Careers Across Cultures (ISSP Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology) - Tapa blanda

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"A unique and coherent collection of state-of-the art expertise from around the world, Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is a milestone text and a scientific breakthrough in the study of careers in sport psychology." - Sidónio Serpa, President of International Society of Sport Psychology

"In Athlete’s careers across cultures Natalia Stambulova and Tatiana Ryba have brought together the leading experts from around the world in what is the most comprehensive and complete work on issues involved in athlete career development. Topics discussed include early career and talent development, sport specialization, elite athlete career issues, athletic retirement and career assistance programs. Looking across cultures allows the authors to not only derive general principles of career development, but at the same time demonstrate how the application of these principles is shaped by cultural forces. This book is a must read for anyone interested in athlete career development." - Daniel Gould, Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, Michigan State University,

Reseña del editor

Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development.

The area of athlete career development has traditionally been dominated by a Western perspective, an imbalance which has had a considerable influence on the shaping of career studies more generally. Stambulova and Ryba adopt a more culturally sensitive approach, offering a comprehensive analytical review of athlete career research and assistance in 19 different nations. The authors employ diverse theoretical, methodological and practical ideas to demonstrate how local knowledge enables a better understanding of the dynamics of cultural diversity within the field.

Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures considers the ‘cultural praxis’ of athletes’ careers as a practical implication of the cultural turn. As such it will stimulate the development of culturally situated career research and assistance and be an invaluable and internationally relevant resource for academics, professionals and students working in sport and exercise psychology.