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Coaching is a central feature of sport at all levels. This groundbreaking new text is the first to offer a comprehensive introduction to the conceptual issues that underpin sports coaching practice, and to provide a complete conceptual framework for understanding sports coaching. The analysis presented within the book is practice-orientated, exploring the language of the coaching process in order to define the role of the coach, and to better understand the relationship between the coach and the sports performer. Sports Coaching Concepts introduces the key issues behind every stage of the coaching process, presenting important new material on topics such as: * the historical and international context of the development of sports coaching* the role of the coach* participation and performance coaching modes* modelling the coaching process* coaching 'style' and 'philosophy'* decision-making and regulating the process* social factors influencing practice* the future of coach education and professionalisation. The book draws together the existing sports coaching literature for the first time, setting it against important new conceptual developments, and promises to have a profound influence on the nature of our coach education programmes. This book therefore represents essential reading for any student of sports coaching and any serious coach wishing to develop and extend their own coaching practice.
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SPORTS COACHING CONCEPTS
SPORTS COACHING CONCEPTS A FRAMEWORK FOR COACHES’ BEHAVIOUR
John Lyle
London and New York
First published 2002 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2002 John Lyle Some of the concepts in this book were originally explored by the author in The Coaching Process. This resource supported the National Coaching Foundation’s (NCF) BSc (Hons) course in Applied Sports Coaching, validated by De Montfort University. sports coach UK (formerly NCF) offers a wide range of services – for further details visit www.sportscoachuk.org. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record has been requested ISBN 0-203-99498-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0–415–26158–9 (pbk) 0–415–26157–0 (hbk)
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CONTENTS
List of figures Preface Acknowledgements PART 1 WHAT IS COACHING ABOUT?
x xii xv 1
Chapter One Historical and Developmental Context Introduction Historical Roots Physical Education Higher Education and Academic Development Overseas Influences Recent Developments Concluding Comments Summary Projects and Reading
3 3 5 8 11 12 13 16 18 18
Chapter Two Developing a Conceptual Framework Introduction Contemporary Sport and Conceptual Questions Building a Conceptual Framework Coaching and Theory Development The Contribution of Literature on Sports Coaching Sport as a Concept Summary Projects and Reading
20 20 22 24 28 31 33 34 34
Chapter Three The Coaching Process Introduction A Definition of Coaching
35 35 38
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