Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport

Section 1: Learning and Skill Development

1. Coaching Children in Sport: A Focus on Learning

Justen P. O’Connor

2. Coaching Pedagogy

Shane Pill and Brendan SueSee

3. Developmental Considerations for Coaching Preschooler Sport

Jessica Fraser-Tomas and Meghan Harlow

4. Supporting the Development of Sporting Creativity in Children Through an Enskilment Approach

Carl T. Woods, James Rudd, and Sam Robertson

5. To Have Fun: What is Means and its Significance in Sport

Amanda J. Visek, Andreas Ivarsson, Gary Putt, and Jordyn L. Learner

6. Creativity-enhancing Approaches in the Coaching of Children in Sport: Present and Future Directions

Ludvig Johan Torp Rasmussen, and Niels Nygaard Rossing

7. Coaching Psychological and Life Skills Through Sport: Advancing the Contemporary Coaching Agenda

Chris Harwood, Sam Thrower, Sara Kramers, and Paul Wylleman

8. Exploring Contextual Factors Influencing Positive Development Through Sport

Leisha Strachan, Jessica Fraser-Thomas, Nickolas Kosmenko, and Craig Brown

9. Transitions in Child and Youth Sport

Rochelle Eime

10. The Role of The Coach in Player Retention and Attrition

Deborah Agnew and Shane Pill

　

　

Section 2: Protecting Child Athletes

Introduction –Ruth Jeanes and Martin Toms

11. Preparing Children for Sport: The Importance of Athletic Development

Rhodri S. Lloyd, Sylvia Moeskops, and Jon L. Oliver

12. Sport Readiness and Injury Prevention in Young Athletes: Current Recommendations on When to Enter, Compete and Specialise in Sport

Michelle Mullins, Emma Cronk, and Neeru Jayanthi

13. Nutritional Considerations for Children in Sport

Jennifer Hamer

14. Sports Related Concussions in Children

Casey Wagner, Jeff Webb, Brendon Mines, and Pooja Sharma

15. Disordered Eating in Child and Youth Sport: The Role of the Coach

Anthony Papathomas, Maria Luisa Fernanda Pereira Vargas, and Erin Prior

16. Parental Involvement in Organised Youth Sport

Camilla J. Knight, Sam Elliott, Olivier Y. Rouquette, James Maurice, and Rachael A. Newport

17. Making the Cut: Coaches and the Deselection Young Athletes

Kacey Neely and James Dugdale

18. Mental Health and Coaching Children in Sport

Andy Smith and Kenny Greenough

19. Child’s Play? Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport

Melanie Lang and Laura Purdy

20. Coaching Care-Experienced Children and Young People in Sport

Thomas Quarmby, Rachel Sandford, and Oliver Hooper

　

　

Section 3: Talent Identification and Development

Section Introduction – Martin Toms and Ruth Jeanes

21. Coaching Elite Junior Athletes

Frode Moen, Stig Arve Sæther, and John Anders Bjørkøy

22. What Makes Champions? Childhood Multi-Sport Practice Facilitates Long-Term Development

Arne Güllich, Michael Barth, Brooke, N. Macnamara, and David Z. Hambrick

23. The Impact of Growth and Maturation Upon Children’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Sean Cumming

24. Digging for Diamonds? The Abstract and Questionable Nature of Talent Identification in Children’s Sport

Kathryn Johnston, Nick Wattie and Joseph Baker

25. The Child and Adolescent Sport Dropout Problem: Could Modifying the Coaching Micro-System Climate Help?

Stephen Cobley and Kylie Moulds

26. Psycho-Social Maturation and the Implications for Coaching Children

Fieke Rongen, Ian Cowburn, Sergio Lara-Bercial, Tom Mitchell, and David Piggott

27. Integrating Specificity and Generality of Practice to Enrich Children’s Learning in Sport

Martyn Rothwell, James Rudd, and Keith Davids

28. Sampling and Specialising in Children’s Sport: Implications for Research and Coaching Practice

Colin D. McLaren, Mark W. Bruner, Alex Murata, Luc J. Martin, and Jean Côté

29. Group Based Strategies in Children’s Organised Sport: Looking Beyond Fixed Chronological Age

Adam L. Kelly and Jennifer Turnnidge

　

Section 4: Diversity and Inclusion

Introduction – Ruth Jeanes and Martin Toms

30. Children’s Rights and Sports Coaching

Peter Donnelly and Gretchen Kerr

31. Coaching Disabled Children: A Brief Look Around and Forward

Robert C. Townsend

32. "I treat every Player equally": Coaching Culturally Diverse Children in Sport

Brent McDonald

33. Addressing the Needs of Indigenous Children?: Coach Education Programs in Canada, Aotearoa New Zeeland and Australia

Andrew Bennie, Jeremy Hapeta, Dan Henhawk, and Audrey Giles

34. Coaching Children and Youth with Refugee Backgrounds

Carla Luguetti, Christopher Hudson, and Ramón Spaaij

35. Towards a Critical Inclusion of LGB Youth in Coaching Contexts

Dawn E. Trussell, Kyle A. Rich, and Jake Quinton

36. Exploring the Implications of Ability in Children’s Sport

Tania Cassidy

37. Social Justice Organisations, Community Sport and Coaching Children

Matthew Atencio, E. Missy Wright, Duke Austin, Carl Stempel, and Christina Rodriguez

　

Section 5: Cultures and Context　

Section Introduction - Martin Toms, and Ruth Jeanes

38. Coaching Children and Youth Sport Policy

Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Iain Lindsey, Jimmy O’Gorman, and John Hayton

39. Volunteering in Children’s Sport: From Motivation to Child Protection

Matheus Galdino, Sebastian Gehrmann, and Pamela Wicker

40. Retaining Volunteer Coaches in Child and Youth Sport

Haley Baxter and Katie E. Misener

41. The Digital Sideline: What Coaches Need to Know about Children’s Engagement with Social Media

Victoria A. Goodyear, Mark Griffiths, Jonathon McKeever, and Gary Priest

42. A Space to Play: The Geographies of Children’s Sport and Physical Activities

Catherine Waite

43. The Learning Cultures of Informal Self-Organised Action Sports: Implications for Child and Youth Coaching

Belinda Wheaton and Robert C. Townsend

44. Scaling Children’s Sport to Augment Motor Skill Acquisition

Tim Buszard, Machar Reid, and Damian Farrow

45. Learning to Coach Children in Sport

Biography

Martin Toms, PhD is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. A former professional sports coach with an MPhil and PhD exploring the sociological issues of young people in junior sport, Martin has been heavily involved in juniors sport all of his adult life. He has published widely and presented extensively around the world on youth sport, including working on international projects and for NBGs/Federations and National Governmental organisations. He has gained European and SCUK funding for youth and coaching related projects as well as being involved in international consultancy. He is a co-editor of the European Journal for Sport and Society as well as the current Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Golf Science.

Ruth Jeanes, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Ruth’s research examines inclusion and exclusion within youth sport, particularly examining how sport can be used to achieve broader social policy objectives targeted at young people. Within this, she is particularly interested in the role of coaches in facilitating broader social outcomes for young people. Ruth has published extensively in these areas with over 100 publications across journal articles, book chapters and books. She is widely cited and has been successful in securing extensive funding for her research including two highly competitive Australian Research Council grants.

"Beyond other resources, the Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport provides a contemporary overview of a wide-range of key topic areas associated with coaching children in sport. This book provides a breadth and depth of child-specific coaching content like no other, and is therefore important reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested (or working) in child and youth sport."

-Ed Cope, Loughborough University, UK