Sports coaching the basics

"Sports Coaching: The Basics is an engaging and provocative introduction to sports coaching which combines coaches' views and experiences of their work with discussions and topical issues that feature in this fast-growing field. In doing so, it places the coach at the centre of the discuss...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Purdy, Laura G. (Author)
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge [2018]
Series:The Basics
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • What is sports coaching?
  • The philosophical coach
  • A history and a herstory of sports coaching
  • Coaching as social: considering the taken for granted in coaches work
  • Causes and consequences: coaches as motivated and as constructors of motivational climates
  • Athlete/player learning and coaches' methods
  • Learning the labour: considering coaches' learning initiatives
  • Crossing lines: considering problematic coaching behaviour(s)
  • Twelve hour days, six days a week, fifty weeks a year: considering the careers of performance coaches
  • References.