1st Edition

Teaching Tactical Creativity in Sport Research and Practice

By Daniel Memmert Copyright 2015
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make decisions that are both unexpected – and therefore less easily predicted by his/her opponent – and appropriate is the player who is likely to be successful. In this ground-breaking new book Daniel Memmert explores the concept of tactical creativity, introducing a new theoretical framework based on extensive... Read more

1. Creativity – An introduction  2. Creativity in Science  3. Creativity in Physical Education and Team and Racket Sports  4. Learning and Teaching within the Scope of the Tactical Creativity Approach in Team and Racket Sports  5. Empirical Evidence of the Tactical Creativity Approach in Team and Racket Sports  6. How to measure Tactical Creativity in Team and Racket Sports?  7. Practical Implications of Tactical Creativity Approach  8. Summary

Biography

Daniel Memmert is a Professor and Head of the Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research at the German Sport University of Cologne with a visiting assistant professorship at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is a football and tennis coach with a PhD in cognition and a habilitation in creativity in team and racket sports from the Elite University of Heidelberg. His research interests are cognitive science, human movement science, computer science, and sport psychology. He has 15 years of teaching and coaching experience, and has published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and 35 books or book chapters. Daniel is a reviewer for several international (sport) psychology journals and transfers his expertise to business companies and several professional football clubs (e.g. German Bundesliga, Champions/Europa League)