Successful sports coaching is as dependent on utilising good teaching and social practices as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Understanding Sports Coaching offers an innovative introduction to the theory and practice of sports coaching, highlighting the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts underpinning good coaching practice. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the book explores the complex interplay between coach, athlete, coaching programme and social context, and encourages coaches to develop an open and reflective approach to their own coaching practice. It addresses key issues such as:   athlete motivation and long term development  viewing the athlete as a learner  instructional methods and reflection  working with different athletic and learning abilities  coaching philosophy and ethics Understanding Sports Coaching also includes a full range of practical exercises and case studies designed to encourage coaches to reflect critically upon their own coaching strategies, their interpersonal skills and upon important issues in contemporary sports coaching. This book is essential reading for all students of sports coaching and for any professional coach looking to develop their coaching expertise.

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice

Cassidy, Tania G.

Jones, Robyn L.

Potrac, Paul

Sports & Outdoors

Routledge

Successful sports coaching is as dependent on utilising good teaching and social practices as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Understanding Sports Coaching offers an innovative introduction to the theory and practice of sports coaching, highlighting the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts underpinning good coaching practice. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the book explores the complex interplay between coach, athlete, coaching programme and social context, and encourages coaches to develop an open and reflective approach to their own coaching practice. It addresses key issues such as: <ul>
<li>athlete motivation and long term development </li> <li>viewing the athlete as a learner </li> <li>instructional methods and reflection </li> <li>working with different athletic and learning abilities </li> <li>coaching philosophy and ethics</li>
</ul>
Understanding Sports Coaching also includes a full range of practical exercises and case studies designed to encourage coaches to reflect critically upon their own coaching strategies, their interpersonal skills and upon important issues in contemporary sports coaching. This book is essential reading for all students of sports coaching and for any professional coach looking to develop their coaching expertise.

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice (Volume 2)

'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club. Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this groundbreaking new coaching studies text offers a view that focuses the coach as a person and the coaching practice as a complex social encounter. Unlike existing titles in the field which look at coaching as a science, this book examines the personalities, histories, relationships and individual styles of eight coaches at the top of their profession. One-to-one interviews with some of the best-known and respected elite sports coaches include Steve Harrison, Hope Powell and Graham Taylor from football; Ian McGeechan and Bob Dwyer from rugby; Di Bass from swimming; Lois Muir from netball; and Peter Stanley from athletics; and form the basis for subsequent exploration of four key themes in sports coaching: * coaching pedagogy * the coach's role * the coach's interaction with athletes * the coach's power. This text will be of significant interest to students of coaching science and sports science, and will appeal to the considerable body of amateur sports coaches with an interest in the styles of those at the top.

Sports Coaching Cultures

Jones, Robyn

Armour, Kathleen M.

Water Sports

Successful sports coaching is as dependent on utilising good teaching and social practices as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Understanding Sports Coaching offers an innovative introduction to the theory and practice of sports coaching, highlighting the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts underpinning good coaching practice. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, the book explores the complex interplay between coach, athlete, coaching programme and social context, and encourages coaches to develop an open and reflective approach to their own coaching practice. It addresses key issues such as:  power and the coach-athlete relationship viewing the athlete as a learner  instructional methods and reflection how our view of ability informs assessment coaching philosophy and ethics. Understanding Sports Coaching also includes a full range of practical exercises and case studies designed to encourage coaches to reflect critically upon their own coaching strategies, their interpersonal skills and upon important issues in contemporary sports coaching. This book is essential reading for all students of sports coaching and for any professional coach looking to develop their coaching expertise.

Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice

JONES, IAN

Gratton, Chris

Jones, Dr Robyn L

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Understanding Sports Coaching is still the only introduction to theory and practice in sports coaching to fully explore the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts underpinning good coaching practice. The book examines the complex interplay between coach, athlete, coaching programme and social context, and encourages coaches to develop an open and reflective approach to their own coaching practice. It covers every key aspect of coaching theory and practice, including important and emerging topics, such as: <ul>
<li>athletes’ identities</li> <li>athlete learning</li> <li>emotion in coaching</li> <li>coaching ethics </li> <li>professionalization</li> <li>talent identification and development </li> <li>coaching as a (micro)political activity </li> </ul>
Understanding Sports Coaching also includes a full range of practical exercises and extended case studies designed to encourage coaches to reflect critically upon their own coaching strategies, their interpersonal skills and upon important issues in contemporary sports coaching. This is an essential textbook for any degree-level course in sports coaching, and for any professional coach looking to develop their coaching expertise.

Cassidy, Tania

Coaching

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, and introducing a new author team, Understanding Sports Coaching introduces theories and practices while exploring pedagogical, social, and cultural concepts underpinning good sports coaching practice. Broken into four sections, Understanding Sports Coaching examines the complex interplay between coach, athlete, coaching programme and social context, and encourages coaches to develop an open and reflective approach to their own coaching practice. It covers key aspects of coaching theories and practice, including important and emerging topics, such as: <ul> <li>leadership</li> <li>athlete learning</li> <li>emotion in coaching</li> <li>culture as meaning making</li> <li>quality in coaching</li> <li>talent identification and development</li> <li>philosophy and sports coaching</li> </ul> Understanding Sports Coaching also includes a full range of practical exercises and extended case studies designed to encourage coaches to critically reflect upon their own coaching strategies, their interpersonal skills and upon important issues in contemporary sports coaching. This is an essential textbook for any degree-level course in sports coaching, and for any professional coach looking to develop their coaching expertise.

Understanding Sports Coaching

Rynne, Steven

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Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice (Volume 2)

Sports Coaching Cultures

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice

Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice

Understanding Sports Coaching

Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice