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Understanding Sports Coaching : The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice
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Understanding Sports Coaching as discussed by the authors 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.Abstract:
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.read more
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An integrative definition of coaching effectiveness and expertise.
Jean Côté,Wade Gilbert +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrative definition of coaching effectiveness and expertise that is both specific and conceptually grounded in the coaching, teaching, positive psychology, and athletes' development literature.
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Formal, Nonformal and Informal Coach Learning: A Holistic Conceptualisation
TL;DR: In this paper, Coombs and Ahmed's framework of formal, non-formal, and informal learning as the analytical framework was used to review and conceptually locate literature exploring how sports coaches acquire the knowledge that underpins their professional practice.
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A New Theoretical Perspective for Understanding How Coaches Learn to Coach
Penny Werthner,Pierre Trudel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of an elite Canadian coach is used to illustrate the different learning processes in three types of learning situations: mediated, unmediated, and internal, and the potential of this conceptual research framework for the study of coaches' development, specifically at the elite/expert level, is discussed.
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Another bad day at the training ground: Coping with ambiguity in the coaching context
Robyn L. Jones,Mike Wallace +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic and therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners.
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