Full Description
This practical textbook explains the sport development process from a practitioner's viewpoint, showing what actually works, how, and why. Focusing on the development of sport, the book considers the efforts of sport organisations to revitalise their sports at a community level to ensure their future relevance, growth, and sustainability.
Full of real-world cases and data, as well as the voices and reflections of a wide range of practitioners, Sport Development in Action explains how to research and draw up a development plan, how to design and implement programmes and establish delivery networks, and how to monitor and evaluate initiatives.
This is essential reading for any sport development course, and useful reading for courses in sport management, sports coaching, or sports studies. It is also an indispensable reference book for practitioners.
Contents
List of figures and tables
List of appendices
List of pause and ponders
List of facts and figures
List of case studies
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: opening the innings
PART I Sport development in theory and practice
1 Sport development: the concept and a model of interpretations
2 Development of sport: its relevance to community sport
PART II Getting started in sport development
3 Formulating a sport development plan
4 Designing a sport development programme
5 Establishing a sport development delivery network
6 Implementing a sport development programme: putting the plan into practice
7 Monitoring and evaluating the programme
PART III Sport development in practice
8 Changing focus in the development and delivery of community tennis
Alec Astle and Jamie Tong
9 A whole of football plan
Alec Astle and John Herdman
PART IV Reflections on sport development in practice
10 Practitioners' perspectives on the 'development of sport' in a community setting
11 Closing the innings: development lessons to be shared
Index
