Sport Coaching Concepts

Sport Coaching Concepts was the first textbook to offer a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical issues that underpin sports coaching practice. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this book explains why a conceptual approach to sports coaching is more important than ever before, using practice-orientated analysis to help students develop a full understanding of coaching theory and technique. Also included are six completely new chapters on the evolution of coaching theory, coaches' expertise, decision-making, social perspectives on the coach-athlete relationship, social inclusion, and principles of coach development.

John Lyle is Professor of Sport Coaching at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and previously Dean of the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. He has had a long and successful career in higher education, first in physical education and later specialising in sport coaching studies. He established the first professional diploma in sport coaching and played a significant role in the development of sport coaching as an academic field of study. He is the author of Sports Coaching Concepts: First Edition, and co-editor of The Coaching Process and Sports Coaching: Professionalisation and Practice. Chris Cushion is Professor of Coaching and Pedagogy at Loughborough University, UK. His research interests focus on understanding coach learning, coaching practice and coach behaviour, within a framework of developing a sociology of coaching. He has worked on projects with a number of governing body organisations and professional clubs, as well as developing coaching and coach education in non-sporting contexts such as the police and the military. He is Associate Editor of the journal Sports Coaching Review and has co-edited two recent books: Sports Coaching: Professionalisation and Practice and The Sociology of Sports Coaching.

Introduction 1. Developments in the field 2. Developing a conceptual framework 3. The coaching process 4. Coaching domains and the role of the coach 5. Expertise in sport coaching 6. Modelling the coaching process 7. A proposed model for coaching 8. Operationalising the model: or, what coaches really do! 9. Approaches to coaching: linking theory and practice 10. Sport coaching in social context 11. Coaching philosophy 12. Pedagogy in practice 13. The professionalisation of sport coaching 14. Coach education and coaching practice 15. Setting a research agenda