1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport
The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport is a comprehensive text that underscores the importance of learning and context for those who sculpt the environment in which people of all ages develop in and through sport.
Coaches and those responsible for the development of coaches are best positioned as both learners and facilitators of learning. As sport becomes more globalised, the concomitant professionalisation of coaches necessitates ongoing learning and development to embrace new knowledge and understanding. Moreover, contemporary coach development presents as a wicked problem, in that it continues to evolve, it is contextually bound, and there is no single or obvious way to approach it. Problematically, there is often limited assistance available to support coaches and coach developers in their ongoing development. As such, this book provides a truly international reference point that brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to provide an overview of the theories and practices of coaches and coach developers that are impacting the quality of sporting environments.
Therefore, this book is an important reference for researchers, scholars, and practitioners alike in the fields of Sport Coaching, Coach Development, Sport Development, Sport for Development, Physical Education and related disciplines.
Part I: Coach Development Globally
1. Foundations and Evolution of Coach Development
Pierre Trudel and Wade Gilbert
2. Coach Development in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Evolutions and Current Directions
Donna O’Connor, Blake Bennett, Kate Perry, Glenn Fyall, Andy Rogers, and David Morley
3. Coach Education and Development Systems in Asia
Koon Teck Koh, Masamitsu Ito, Jun Mizushima, and Li Quan Warrick Tan
4. Coach Development across North America
Beth Barz and Melissa Thompson
5. The Richness, Diversity and Inequality of Coach Development in South America
Larissa Rafaela Galatti, Heitor de Andrade Rodrigues, Yura Yuka Sato dos Santos, and Gabriel Fessia
6. This Ship is Going to be Wicked Hard to Steer: Coach Development in Europe
Christine Nash and Adrian Alexandru Moșoi
7. Coach Development in Africa
Alliance Kubayi, Desiree Vardhan, John Chalukulu and Heather Morris-Eyton
Part II: Theorising and Research Informing Coach Development
8. Sport as a Learning Setting
Steven B Rynne and Bob Crudgington
9. Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice
Ben Ives, Lee Nelson, Laura Gale, Paul Potrac, and John Toner
10. Internal Processes and Cognitive Approaches to Coach Learning and Development
Anna Stodter, Andrew Abraham, and Gary Hodgson
11. ‘Becoming and Being’ a Contemporary Coach Through the Framework of Ecological Dynamics.
Katherine A O’Brien and Adam D Gorman
12. Learning as a Social Enterprise: Wenger-Trayner’s Social Learning Theory in Coach Development
Diane M. Culver, Tiago Duarte, Erin Kraft, and Penny Werthner
Part III: Perspectives on Coach Development in Action
13. Quality in (Performance) Coach Development
Clifford J. Mallett, Steven B. Rynne, and Katherine O’Brien
14. Coach Development Curriculum
Tania Cassidy, Gary Byrne, Clifford J. Mallett, and Gordon A. Bloom
15. Coach Development Pedagogy
Andrea Woodburn and Michel Milistetd
16. Assessment in Coach Education
Liam McCarthy and Bettina Callary
17. Coach Development in a Rugby Union Context (New Zealand)
Tania Cassidy and Jeremy Hapeta
18. Football Coaching, the Portuguese way: The Ecology of Practice as the Referent for Evidence-based Coach Education
Duarte Araújo, Hugo Sarmento, Rui Resende, and A. Rui Gomes
19. Coach Development in an Ice Hockey Context
Vladislav A. Bespomoshchnov, Markus Arvaja, Mika Vahalummukka, and Gordon A. Bloom
20. Coach Development in World Athletics
Clifford J. Mallett, Frank W. Dick, Craig Handford, and Herbert Czingon
21. Coach Development in a Basketball Context: Identification and Development of Youth Performance Coaches in Spain.
Sergio Lara-Bercial and Manuel Peña-Garces
22. Developing Coach Developers in and for Performance Development and High-Performance Sport
Julian North, Bob Muir, and Andrew Gillott
Part IV: Critical Issues in Coach Development
23. Global Coach Development in a Knowledge Society: Critical Issues
John Lyle and Miguel Crespo
24. Coaching’s Urgent Need: Addressing Coaches’ Abuse of Their Power
Jim Denison, Brian Gearity, Göran Gerdin, Roslyn Kerr, Jennifer McMahon, Montse Martin, and Leanne Norman
25. Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Coach Development
Robert Townsend, Andrew Bennie and Kate Russell
26. What Forms of Learning in Sport Coaching are Valued, Valuable, or ‘Rubbish’?
Steven B Rynne, Alex Blackett, and Stiliani “Ani” Chroni
27. Challenging the Norm: Sporting Megatrends and their Implications for Athlete Learning and Coach Development
Eva Ellmer, Anna-Liisa Ojala, and Matthew Watson
28. High Performance Coach Development: A Wicked Problem
Jarred Parkes and Clifford J. Mallett
Biography
Steven B. Rynne is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia.
Clifford J. Mallett is a Professor in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia.
