Coaches Self-education from the Point of View of an Economic Character of their Coaching Activity

The paper occupies with further education of coaches of individual and team sports with the respect to the fact, whether coaches carry out their activity as main economic activity, partial economic activity or if they are volunteers (without any right to a salary). The goal of the paper was to investigate the approach of coaches to their education. As the main research method, we use a questionnaire from Svoboda (1998), which was adjusted with the respect to current social conditions. The data were processed by using a descriptive statistics, namely crossed tables, further we use a chi-square test. All data were processed by statistical programme NCSS (version 6.0.21). The research sample contains 511 coaches with different levels of training licence (311 men and 200 women). Respondents were choosed by an intentional selection and research sample consists from attenders of coaching licence education in FTVS UK. On one hand, coaches have generally positive attitude to taking part in coaching licence education, one the other hand their attitude to education which is not joined with coaching is prevailingly negative. Their effort to gain a coaching licence is apparently connected with an economic character of coaching acitivity. If we assess differences between individual sports and team sports, we can see them mainly in the area of further proffesional education (but not namely coaching licence), again with the connection to an economic character of coaching acitivity. We can conclude that sport coaches have a very different approach to different kinds of their education and the obvious agent is mainly formalism.