Sport coaching with diverse populations : theory and practice / edited by James Wallis and John Lambert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallis, James, 1973- editor.

Lambert, John, 1956- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge research in sports coaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coaching (Athletics).

Coach-athlete relationships.

Sports for children--Coaching.

Sports for children.

Sports for women--Coaching.

Sports for women.

Sports for people with disabilities--Coaching.

Sports for people with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

James Wallis is Principal Lecturer in Sport, Coaching and Exercise Science at the University of Brighton, UK, as well as Visiting Lecturer at the German Sports University, Germany. His main teaching and research interests are in the design and delivery of youth sport programmes. He has extensive applied experience in coaching and coach education in performance and sport for development contexts. He has most recently contributed to the development of coaching programmes in professional cricket and Freestyle BMX. John Lambert is First Team Scout at a football club in the English Premier League. He was previously Principal Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Physical Education at the University of Brighton, UK, and Visiting Lecturer at the German Sport University, Germany. He is a UEFA A licence coach and worked for ten years as a coach educator and researcher on a major international sport for development programme.

Contents:

Coaching for youth performance : challenging tradition through understanding and applying non-linear approaches to skill development / James Wallis and Tim van Noort

Coaching children and youth : building physical foundations / Floris Pietzsch and James Wallis

Understanding the sport values of young people and recognising the implications for their coaches : sport for kids, not kids for sport / John Lambert

Coaching female combat athletes : creating positive environments for women and girls / Catherine Phipps, Anastasia Khomutova and Alex Channon

Sport coaching in a disadvantaged community : a case study of freestyle BMX / Ben Gould and Carlotta Giussani

A structural shift in voluntary work with refugees within sports clubs in Germany / Sebastian Braun, Katrin Albert, Mareike Alscher and Stefan Hansen

The importance of sport in engaging refugees : 'It's only a game?' / Mark Doidge

Addressing the under-representation of BAME coaches in professional football club youth academies : an examination of the EFL mandatory code of coach recruitment / Steven Bradbury and Dominic Conricode

Coaching and teaching LGBT youth / Gillian Teideman and Graham Spacey

Disability sport coaching : 'You just coach the athlete not the disability' / Chris Cushion, Tabo Huntley and Robert Townsend

Coaching athletes with intellectual disabilities : same thing but bifferent? / Natalie J. Campbell and Jon Stonebridge

The role of physical activity in cancer rehabilitation / Louisa Beale and Jan Sheward

Decreasing the fear of falling in older adults : the use of adapted utilitarian judo / Óscar Castillo, Andrés Luis Toronjo Hornillo, María Teresa Toronjo Hornillo, and María del Carmen Campos Mesa

Physical activity and ageing : keep moving! / Peter Watt and Janus Gudlaugsson

Concluding thoughts and future considerations / James Wallis and John Lambert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Sport coaching with diverse populations

ISBN:

0367854791

9781000195941

1000195945

9781000196047

1000196046

9781000195996

1000195996

9780367854799

Publisher Number:

40030324283

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Restricted for use by site license.