1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport

Edited By Steven B. Rynne, Clifford J. Mallett Copyright 2024
472 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

472 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

472 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.