Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport is a comprehensive text that underscores the importance of learning and context for those who sculpt the environment in which people of all ages develop in and through sport.
Coaches and those responsible for the development of coaches are best positioned as both learners and facilitators of learning. As sport becomes more globalised, the concomitant professionalisation of coaches necessitates ongoing learning and development to embrace new knowledge and understanding. Moreover, contemporary coach development presents as a wicked problem, in that it continues to evolve, it is contextually bound, and there is no single or obvious way to approach it. Problematically, there is often limited assistance available to support coaches and coach developers in their ongoing development. As such, this book provides a truly international reference point that brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to provide an overview of the theories and practices of coaches and coach developers that are impacting the quality of sporting environments.
Therefore, this book is an important reference for researchers, scholars, and practitioners alike in the fields of Sport Coaching, Coach Development, Sport Development, Sport for Development, Physical Education and related disciplines.
Contents
Part I: Coach Development Globally
1. Foundations and Evolution of Coach Development
2. Coach Development in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Evolutions and Current Directions
3. Coach Education and Development Systems in Asia
4. Coach Development across North America
5. The Richness, Diversity and Inequality of Coach Development in South America
6. This Ship is Going to be Wicked Hard to Steer: Coach Development in Europe
7. Coach Development in Africa
Part II: Theorising and Research Informing Coach Development
8. Sport as a Learning Setting
9. Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice
10. Internal Processes and Cognitive Approaches to Coach Learning and Development
11. 'Becoming and Being' a Contemporary Coach Through the Framework of Ecological Dynamics.
12. Learning as a Social Enterprise: Wenger-Trayner's Social Learning Theory in Coach Development
Part III: Perspectives on Coach Development in Action
13. Quality in (Performance) Coach Development
14. Coach Development Curriculum
15. Coach Development Pedagogy
16. Assessment in Coach Education
17. Coach Development in a Rugby Union Context (New Zealand)
18. Football Coaching, the Portuguese way: The Ecology of Practice as the Referent for Evidence-based Coach Education
19. Coach Development in an Ice Hockey Context
20. Coach Development in World Athletics
21. Coach Development in a Basketball Context: Identification and Development of Youth Performance Coaches in Spain.
22. Developing Coach Developers in and for Performance Development and High-performance Sport
Part IV: Critical Issues in Coach Development
23. Global Coach Development in a Knowledge Society: Critical Issues
24. Coaching's Urgent Need: Addressing Coaches' Abuse of Their Power
25. Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Coach Development
26. What Forms of Learning in Sport Coaching are Valued, Valuable, or 'Rubbish'?
27. Challenging the Norm: Sporting Megatrends and their Implications for Athlete Learning and Coach Development
28. High Performance Coach Development: A Wicked Problem
