Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport

Herausgeber: Toms, Martin; Jeanes, Ruth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive and range of critical reflections of key areas impacting on children's sport and coaching up to the age of 16 and includes chapters written by academic in various disciplines, including nutrition, psychology, pedagogy, medicine, youth development and sociology.

Produktdetails

• Routledge International Handbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1024g
• ISBN-13: 9781032058191
• ISBN-10: 1032058196
• Artikelnr.: 65917596

Autorenporträt

Martin Toms, PhD is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. A former professional sports coach with an MPhil and PhD exploring the sociological issues of young people in junior sport, Martin has been heavily involved in juniors sport all of his adult life. He has published widely and presented extensively around the world on youth sport, including working on international projects and for NBGs/Federations and National Governmental organisations. He has gained European and SCUK funding for youth and coaching related projects as well as being involved in international consultancy. He is a co-editor of the European Journal for Sport and Society as well as the current Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Golf Science. Ruth Jeanes, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Ruth's research examines inclusion and exclusion within youth sport, particularly examining how sport can be used to achieve broader social policy objectives targeted at young people. Within this, she is particularly interested in the role of coaches in facilitating broader social outcomes for young people. Ruth has published extensively in these areas with over 100 publications across journal articles, book chapters and books. She is widely cited and has been successful in securing extensive funding for her research including two highly competitive Australian Research Council grants.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Learning and Skill Development
1. Coaching Children in Sport: A Focus on Learning
2. Coaching Pedagogy
3. Developmental Considerations for Coaching Preschooler Sport
4. Supporting the Development of Sporting Creativity in Children Through
an Enskilment Approach
5. To Have Fun: What is Means and its Significance in Sport
6. Creativity-enhancing Approaches in the Coaching of Children in Sport:
Present and Future Directions
7. Coaching Psychological and Life Skills Through Sport: Advancing the
Contemporary Coaching Agenda
8. Exploring Contextual Factors Influencing Positive Development Through
Sport
9. Transitions in Child and Youth Sport
10. The Role of The Coach in Player Retention and Attrition
Section 2: Protecting Child Athletes
11. Preparing Children for Sport: The Importance of Athletic Development
12. Sport Readiness and Injury Prevention in Young Athletes: Current
Recommendations on When to Enter, Compete and Specialise in Sport
13. Nutritional Considerations for Children in Sport
14. Sports Related Concussions in Children
15. Disordered Eating in Child and Youth Sport: The Role of the Coach
16. Parental Involvement in Organised Youth Sport
17. Making the Cut: Coaches and the Deselection Young Athletes
18. Mental Health and Coaching Children in Sport
19. Child's Play? Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport
20. Coaching Care-Experienced Children and Young People in Sport
Section 3: Talent Identification and Development
21. Coaching Elite Junior Athletes
22. What Makes Champions? Childhood Multi-Sport Practice Facilitates
Long-Term Development
23. The Impact of Growth and Maturation Upon Children's Participation in
Sport and Physical Activity
24. Digging for Diamonds? The Abstract and Questionable Nature of Talent
Identification in Children's Sport
25. The Child and Adolescent Sport Dropout Problem: Could Modifying the
Coaching Micro-System Climate Help?
26. Psycho-Social Maturation and the Implications for Coaching Children
27. Integrating Specificity and Generality of Practice to Enrich
Children's Learning in Sport
28. Sampling and Specialising in Children's Sport: Implications for
Research and Coaching Practice
29. Group Based Strategies in Children's Organised Sport: Looking Beyond
Fixed Chronological Age
Section 4: Diversity and Inclusion
30. Children's Rights and Sports Coaching
31. Coaching Disabled Children: A Brief Look Around and Forward
32. "I treat every Player equally": Coaching Culturally Diverse Children
in Sport
33. Addressing the Needs of Indigenous Children?: Coach Education
Programs in Canada, Aotearoa New Zeeland and Australia
34. Coaching Children and Youth with Refugee Backgrounds
35. Towards a Critical Inclusion of LGB Youth in Coaching Contexts
36. Exploring the Implications of Ability in Children's Sport
37. Social Justice Organisations, Community Sport and Coaching Children
Section 5: Cultures and Context
38. Coaching Children and Youth Sport Policy
39. Volunteering in Children's Sport: From Motivation to Child Protection
40. Retaining Volunteer Coaches in Child and Youth Sport
41. The Digital Sideline: What Coaches Need to Know about Children's
Engagement with Social Media
42. A Space to Play: The Geographies of Children's Sport and Physical
Activities
43. The Learning Cultures of Informal Self-Organised Action Sports:
Implications for Child and Youth Coaching
44. Scaling Children's Sport to Augment Motor Skill Acquisition
45. Learning to Coach Children in Sport