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The Sports Coach as Educator: Re-conceptualising Sports Coaching

Editat de Robyn L. Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2006
Teaching athletes to improve their performance is the essence of sports coaching. In response to new government-led initiatives to invest in and develop coaching, this book is the first introduction to pedagogical theory for coaching. Bringing helpful insights from educational theory to bear on coaching practice, The Sports Coach as Educator expands and enriches the role of the coach and allows professionals to approach their work in new and inventive ways. Exploring the nature of coaching, this text covers:
  • educational concepts in coaching
  • coaching, teaching and leadership
  • athletes’ learning
  • coaching communities and the social process
  • reflective practice
  • mentoring
  • developing expert coaches.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415367608
ISBN-10: 0415367603
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 9 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 8 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Section 1: Introduction: Coaching as an Educational Enterprise  1. How Can Educational Concepts Inform Sports Coaching? 2. Coaching as an Educational Relationship 3. Coaching as Teaching: New Acknowledgements in Practice Section 2: Reconceptualising the Role of the Coach  4. The Coach as a 'More Capable Other'   5. The Coach as Orchestrator  6. First among Equals: Shared Leadership in the Coaching Context 7. Athlete Learning Within a Community of  Practice: Is There a Role for the Coach? Section 3: Reconceptualising Coach Education  8. Cultivating Coaches' Communities of Practice  9. The Coach as a Reflective Practitioner 10. Mentoring: Harnessing the Power of Experience  11. Developing Expert Coaching

Recenzii

'Highly recommended, ¦The Sport Coach as Educator is testimony to Robyn Jones outstanding leadership of an international community of researchers and scholars, from largely educational backgrounds, in producing a critical tradition which will help to bridge the gap between sports science and coaching.' - IJSSC
'It is an interesting and thought provoking book which will cause many advanced coaches to re-examine and reflect on their role and relationship with their athletes.' Geoffrey K Platt, Kingston University, UK
 
 

'Highly recommended, ¦The Sport Coach as Educator is testimony to Robyn Jones outstanding leadership of an international community of researchers and scholars, from largely educational backgrounds, in producing a critical tradition which will help to bridge the gap between sports science and coaching.'
 
 

Notă biografică

Robyn L. Jones is a Professor in the School of  Sport, Physical education and Recreation at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

Descriere

Bringing helpful insights from educational theory to bear on coaching practice, this book expands and enriches the role of the coach and allows professionals to approach their work in new and inventive ways.