ABSTRACT
Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed into a coherent and substantial field of scholarly enquiry with a rich and sophisticated research literature.
The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching is the first book to survey the full depth and breadth of contemporary coaching studies, mapping the existing disciplinary territory and opening up important new areas of research. Bringing together many of the world’s leading coaching scholars and practitioners working across the full range of psychological, social and pedagogical perspectives, the book helps to develop an understanding of sports coaching that reflects its complex, dynamic and messy reality.
With more importance than ever before being attached to the role of the coach in developing and shaping the sporting experience for participants at all levels of sport, this book makes an important contribution to the professionalization of coaching and the development of coaching theory. It is important reading for all students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in this young and flourishing area.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |142 pages
Historical and conceptual overview of sports coaching
part |63 pages
Foundations of sports coaching
part |78 pages
Analysing sports coaching
chapter |12 pages
The Application of Video-Based Performance Analysis in the Coaching Process 1
part |212 pages
Perspectives on sports coaching in action
part |75 pages
Perspectives on Quality Coaching
part |75 pages
Coaching, pedagogy, and communication in sports coaching
chapter |12 pages
Towards an Emotional Understanding of Coaching Practice
chapter |13 pages
Ambiguity, Noticing and Orchestration
part |61 pages
Exploring social relationships in coaching
part |140 pages
Influences on becoming a sports coach
part |78 pages
Critical perspectives on becoming a sports coach
chapter |13 pages
Looking at Coach Development from the Coach-Learner's Perspective
part |61 pages
Developing competency in sports coaching