Description
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is an innovative, user-friendly, practical and theoretical guide for educating sports coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports coaching.
Providing theoretical grounding in mentoring conversations, design thinking and case study research, the book centres on a series of redesigned mentoring conversations between some of the world’s leading sports coaching experts, coach educators, mentors and mentees. It covers topics such as:
- supporting novice volunteer coaches’ learning
- the learning needs of novice volunteer coaches and novice professional coaches
- professional communities of learning in coaching
- the impact of coaching behaviours on learning environments
- autonomy-supportive learning environments
- coaching children, young people and adults
Closing with a critique of the sports coach mentor as design thinker, Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is important reading for any upper-level student or researcher working in sports coaching, sports pedagogy or youth sport, and any coach looking to integrate sound mentoring theory into their professional practice.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Editor Introduction
Part I Sports Coaching: Mentor as Design Thinker
1 An Ecological, Reflexive and Praxis Oriented Mentor Training Programme: The Role of the Mentoring Conversation
Fiona C. Chambers,, Tandy Haughey, Gavin Breslin and Deirdre Brennan
2 What is Design Thinking? A Case Study of Using Design Thinking in a Sports Coaching Context
Brian Cuthbert, Trevor Vaugh and Fiona C. Chambers
Part II Sports Coaching: Case Studies of Mentoring Conversations
3 Making the Transitions from the UEFA Advanced Licence to the UEFA Professional Licence (or not)
Ryan Groom and Rebecca Sawiuk
4 A Mentoring Conversation in Community Sports Coaching Martyn Cooke [mentor] and Lisa Snape [mentee]
Laura Gale, William Taylor and Martyn Cook
5 An Irish Case Study Conversation: Rugby
Fiona C. Chambers, Gary Byrne and Ultan O'Callaghan
6 Giving Voice to the Nodding Donkey: A Critical-humanistic Approach to Mentoring from Down Under
Glenn Fyall, Jackie Cowan and Hugh Galvan
7 Portuguese Case Study Conversation: Handball
João Costa and Marcos Onofre
8 The Coffee Club
Christine Nash and Clifford J. Mallett
9 Canadian Case Study Conversation: Mentorship in Elite Women’s Ice Hockey
Gordon A. Bloom, Jordan S. Lefebvre and Peter Smith
10 Irish Case Study Conversation: Gaelic Games
Wesley O’ Brien, Brian Cuthbert and Niall McCarthy
11 A University Academic Mentor – Mentee relationship in practice; A Northern Irish Sports Coaching Degree
Tandy Jane Haughey and Robin Gregg
Part III Sports Coach Mentor as Design Thinker - Some Final Thoughts
12 Lessons Learned: Sports Coach Mentor as Design Thinker
Trevor Vaugh, Joanne Moles and Fiona C. Chambers
Index
