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Sport Coaching with Diverse Populations: Theory and Practice book cover

1st Edition

Sport Coaching with Diverse Populations Theory and Practice

Edited By James Wallis, John Lambert Copyright 2021
226 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts, and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than ever before. This book introduces the professional competencies and knowledge needed to build successful working relationships across the different communities and groups with which coaches operate. The book offers important insight for coaches who work with... Read more

Introduction

James Wallis

  1. Coaching for Youth Performance: Challenging Tradition through Understanding and Applying Non-Linear Approaches to Skill Development

    2. James Wallis and Tim van Noort

  2. Coaching Children and Youth: Building Physical Foundations

    3. Floris Pietzsch and James Wallis

  3. Understanding the Sport Values of Young People and Recognising the Implications for their Coaches: Sport for Kids, Not Kids for Sport

    4. John Lambert

  4. Coaching Female Combat Athletes: Creating Positive Environments for Women and Girls

    5. Catherine Phipps, Anastasia Khomutova and Alex Channon,

  5. Sport Coaching in a Disadvantaged Community: A Case Study of Freestyle BMX

    6. Ben Gould and Carlotta Giussani

  6. A Structural Shift in Voluntary Work with Refugees within Sports Clubs in Germany

    7. Sebastian Braun, Katrin Albert, Mareike Alscher and Stefan Hansen

  7. The Importance of Sport in Engaging Refugees: ‘It’s Only a Game?’

    8. Mark Doidge

  8. Addressing the Under-representation of BAME Coaches in Professional Football Club Youth Academies: An Examination of the EFL Mandatory Code of Coach Recruitment

    9. Steven Bradbury and Dominic Conricode

  9. Coaching and Teaching LGBT Youth

    10. Gillian Teideman and Graham Spacey

  10. Disability Sport Coaching: ‘You Just Coach the Athlete not the Disability’

    11. Chris Cushion, Tabo Huntley and Robert Townsend

  11. Coaching Athletes with Intellectual Disabilities: Same Thing but Different?

    12. Natalie J. Campbell and Jon Stonebridge

  12. The Role of Physical Activity in Cancer Rehabilitation

    13. Louisa Beale and Jan Sheward

  13. Decreasing the Fear of Falling in Older Adults: The Use of Adapted Utilitarian Judo

    14. Óscar del Castillo Andrés, Luis Toronjo Hornillo, María Teresa Toronjo Hornillo and María del Carmen Campos Mesa

  14. Physical Activity and Ageing: Keep Moving!

Peter Watt and Janus Gudlaugsson

Concluding Thoughts and Future Considerations

James Wallis and John Lambert

 

Biography

James Wallis is Principal Lecturer in Sport, Coaching and Exercise Science at the University of Brighton, UK, as well as Visiting Lecturer at the German Sports University, Germany. His main teaching and research interests are in the design and delivery of youth sport programmes. He has extensive applied experience in coaching and coach education in performance and sport for development contexts. He has most recently contributed to the development of coaching programmes in professional cricket and Freestyle BMX.

John Lambert is First Team Scout at a football club in the English Premier League. He was previously Principal Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Physical Education at the University of Brighton, UK, and Visiting Lecturer at the German Sport University, Germany. He is a UEFA A licence coach and worked for ten years as a coach educator and researcher on a major international sport for development programme.

　

　

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