
Sports Coaching
Professionalisation and Practice
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Sports Coaching: Professionalisation and Practice is a comprehensive evidence-based textbook of sports coaching theory and practice. The book is edited by leading academics in sports coaching studies and authored by a world-renowned team of experts in sports coaching research. It deals with all aspects of coaching behaviour and practice, including coaches' decision making, coaching pedagogy, and the development of expertise. Each of the chapters provides an up-to-date position statement on coaching themes, and makes explicit reference to the professionalisation of coaching. Written in an accessible style, and identifying critical ideas and issues, the book will complement and challenge both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes, and will be an invaluable source of ideas for researchers and academics.Multicontributed chapters follow uniform structure to increase clarity and accessiblity of text 'Snapshots' of critical ideas and issues presented as models or diagrams to facilitate students' understanding Case examples and scenarios illustrate key concepts in each chapter Latest research and current literature summarised for each thematic topic.
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Table of contents
- Cover Image
- Table of Contents
- Front matter
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Dedication
- Chapter summaries
- Contributor biographies
- 1. Conceptual development in sports coaching
- 2. Complex practice in coaching
- 3. Coaches' decision making
- 4. Coach behaviour
- 5. Athlete development and coaching
- 6. Planning for team sports
- 7. The professionalisation of sports coaching
- 8. Becoming a high-performance coach
- 9. Coach education effectiveness
- 10. The learning coach…the learning approach
- 11. Towards a socio-pedagogy of sports coaching
- 12. Understanding athlete learning and coaching practice
- 13. Coaching workforce development
- 14. Coaching practice and practice ethics
- 15. Coaches' expertise
- 16. Coaching philosophy
- 17. Narrowing the field
- Index