| （1.Department of Physical Education，Xiangnan Institute，Chenzhou 423000，China；2.Library，Shanghai University of Sport，Shanghai 200438，China） Abstract: Starting at analyzing the meaning of occupation and profession, the authors studied the meaning and ne-cessity of and implementation strategies for occupational professionalization of sports coaches, and drew the fol-lowing conclusions: occupational professionalization of sports coaches refers to the process of enhancement of indi-vidual professional level of sports coaches as well as the process of sports coach group making efforts in striving for the professional status of the occupation of sports coaches; it is necessary for enhancing the social status of the oc-cupation of sports coaches, and for following the development of professionalization of sports coaches, and in con-formity with the need and orientation of sports coach education reform; its implementation strategies are as follows: establish the awareness of professionalization, reconstruct the education system, reform the curriculum system, and strengthen professional independence, etc.
Key words: sports coaches；occupational professionalization；sports coach education |
