Understanding Sports Coaching

An innovative introduction to sports theory and the practice of sports coaching

This textbook highlights the social, cultural and teaching concepts underpinning good practice. It also includes practical exercises to highlight issues faced by sports coaches.

Aiming to deepen your understanding of the coaching process and teaching sport, the resource enables you to systematically develop coaching programmes that will get the very best out of athletes.

Introduction

1. Reflection
2. Coaching Methods
3. Providing Feedback to Athletes
4. Quality in Coaching
5. Developing Coaching Philiosophy
6. Understanding the Learning Process
7. Developing' Athletes
8. Understanding Athletes' motivation
9. Understanding Athletes' Identities
10. Examining Coaches' Content Knowledge
11. Assessing Athletes' Understanding
12. Coaching Athletes with Disability
13. Discourses of Sports Coaching
14. Coaching Ethics
15. Coaching Holistically
16. Way Forward for Coach Education

Tania Cassidy is based at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Robyn Jones is based at the University of Bath, UK.

Paul Potrac is based at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Robyn Jones is one of the leading international figures in coaching studies.