Routledge handbook of sports coaching / edited by Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, and Jim Denison.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, c2013.Description: xviii, 507 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 9780415782227 (hbk.)
- 0415782228 (hbk.)
- Handbook of sports coaching
- Sports coaching
- 796.077 POT
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 796.077 POT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100518043 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Part 1 Historical and Conceptual Overview of Sports Coaching
- 1 Historical perspectives on coaching
- 2 Coaching with Foucault: An examination of applied sports ethics
- 3 Coaching and professionalization
- 4 Ready, set, action: Representations of coaching through film
- 5 Issues of exclusion and discrimination in the coaching profession
- 6 Coaching efficacy beliefs
- 7 Coaching competency and exploratory structural equation modelling
- 8 The application of video-based performance analysis: The coach supporting athlete learning
- 9 Observing coach-athlete interactions in real time: The state space grid method
- 10 Recommendations on the methods used to investigate coaches' decision making
- 11 A critical realist approach to theorising coaching practice
- Part 2 Perspectives on Sports Coaching In Action
- 12 Defining coaching effectiveness: focus on coaches' knowledge
- 13 Coaches and talent identification
- 14 Holistic sports coaching: A critical essay
- 15 Quality coaching behaviours
- 16 Coaching special populations
- 17 Body politics: Coaching and technology
- 18 Humour and sports coaching: A laughing matter?
- 19 Towards an emotional understanding of coaching: A suggested research agenda
- 20 Expectancy effects in sports coaching
- 21 Coaching life skills
- 22 Ambiguity, noticing, and orchestration: Further thoughts on managing the complex coaching context
- 23 Athlete learning and development: Implications for coaching practice
- 24 Coach: The opens system's manager
- 25 Exploring trust and distrust in coaching: A suggested research agenda
- 26 Empathic understanding and accuracy in the coach-athlete relationship
- 27 Dangerous liaisons: Harassment and abuse in coaching
- 28 Team cohesion in sport: Critical overview and implications for team building
- Part 3 Influences on Becoming a Sports Coach
- 29 Coach education and learning: Developing the field
- 30 Looking at coach development from the coach-learner's perspective: Considerations for coach development administrators
- 31 Effective coaching as a modernist formation: A Foucauldian critique
- 32 What a Foucauldian approach might do for the loss of the female coach
- 33 Women in coaching: The work-life interface
- 34 Coach burnout
- 35 Coaching expertise and the quantitative examination of developmental experiences
- 36 Psychosocial training interventions to prepare youth sport coaches
- 37 Developing high performance coaching craft through work and study
- 38 Mentoring for sport coaches
- 39 Innovative approaches in coach education pedagogy
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Paul Potrac is Professor of Sports Coaching at Edge Hill University. His research interests focus on exploring the social complexity of sports coaching, with a particular emphasis on the political and emotional nature of coaching practice.
Wade Gilbert is a Professor and Sport Psychology Coordinator in the Department of Kinesiology at Fresno State University, USA. He is an active researcher and consultant in the areas of coach education, coaching effectiveness and athlete talent development.
Jim Denison is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Canada and Director of the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the social construction and historical formation of coaching 'knowledges' and coaches' practices.