The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport

This handbook 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.

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.

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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.

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Part I: Coach Development Globally

1. Foundations and Evolution of Coach Development

2. Coach Development in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Evolutions and Current Directions

3. Coach Education and Development Systems in Asia

4. Coach Development across North America

5. The Richness, Diversity and Inequality of Coach Development in South America

6. This Ship is Going to be Wicked Hard to Steer: Coach Development in Europe

7. Coach Development in Africa

Part II: Theorising and Research Informing Coach Development

8. Sport as a Learning Setting

9. Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice

10. Internal Processes and Cognitive Approaches to Coach Learning and Development

11. 'Becoming and Being' a Contemporary Coach Through the Framework of Ecological Dynamics.

12. Learning as a Social Enterprise: Wenger-Trayner's Social Learning Theory in Coach Development

Part III: Perspectives on Coach Development in Action

13. Quality in (Performance) Coach Development

14. Coach Development Curriculum

15. Coach Development Pedagogy

16. Assessment in Coach Education

17. Coach Development in a Rugby Union Context (New Zealand)

18. Football Coaching, the Portuguese way: The Ecology of Practice as the Referent for Evidence-based Coach Education

19. Coach Development in an Ice Hockey Context

20. Coach Development in World Athletics

21. Coach Development in a Basketball Context: Identification and Development of Youth Performance Coaches in Spain.

22. Developing Coach Developers in and for Performance Development and High-performance Sport

Part IV: Critical Issues in Coach Development

23. Global Coach Development in a Knowledge Society: Critical Issues

24. Coaching's Urgent Need: Addressing Coaches' Abuse of Their Power

25. Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Coach Development

26. What Forms of Learning in Sport Coaching are Valued, Valuable, or 'Rubbish'?

27. Challenging the Norm: Sporting Megatrends and their Implications for Athlete Learning and Coach Development

28. High Performance Coach Development: A Wicked Problem