Routledge Research in Sports Coaching
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Sports Coaching series provides a platform for leading experts and emerging academics in this important discipline to present ground-breaking work on the history, theory, practice and contemporary issues of sports coaching. The series sets a new benchmark for research in sports coaching, and offers a valuable contribution to the wider sphere of sports studies.
Conditioned Games for Team Sports Training: Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice
1st Edition
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By Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente
April 23, 2025
Conditioned Games for Team Sports Training allows the reader to discover the dynamic world of conditioned games, popularly known as “small-sided games.” This groundbreaking book unlocks the secrets to revolutionizing training dynamics, via comprehensive exploration of conditioned games, unveiling ...
Sports Coaching Education and Alternative Pedagogies: Approaches in Higher Education
1st Edition
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By Laura Purdy, Natalie Barker-Ruchti
February 27, 2025
Sports Coaching Education: Applying Innovative Pedagogies theorises alternative pedagogies and presents examples of what such teaching looks like in sports coaching higher education. To do this, this new volume outlines the teaching goals of higher education coach education, summarises the ...
Coach Education in Football: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Thomas Leeder
May 27, 2024
Association Football is undoubtedly a global sport, with millions of individuals participating in more than 200 countries. The need for an educated football coaching workforce to deliver appropriate coaching practices has never been greater. Formal coach education, which is often the primary medium...
Birth Advantages and Relative Age Effects in Sport: Exploring Organizational Structures and Creating Appropriate Settings
1st Edition
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By Adam Kelly, Jean Côté, Mark Jeffreys, Jennifer Turnnidge
September 25, 2023
Relative age effects (RAEs) refer to the participation, selection, and attainment inequalities in the immediate, short-term, and long-term in sports. Indeed, dozens of studies have identified RAEs across male and female sporting contexts. Despite its widespread prevalence, there is a paucity in the...
Complexity in Games Teaching and Coaching: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
1st Edition
By Felix Lebed
September 25, 2023
Shedding new light on sport pedagogy and the teaching and coaching of games, this book shows how complexity theory can be used to improve team sport performance, coach education, and young player development. The book draws together insights from both the humanities and behavioural sciences, ...
Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model
1st Edition
By Javier Sainz
June 13, 2022
Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model presents a novel approach to team sports training, examining football (soccer), rugby union, field hockey, basketball, handball and futsal through the paradigm of complexity. Under a traditional prism, these sports have been analysed using a deterministic ...
Sport Coaching with Diverse Populations: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By James Wallis, John Lambert
April 29, 2022
Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts, and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than ever before. This book introduces the professional competencies and knowledge needed to build successful working relationships across the different communities and ...
Professional Advances in Sports Coaching: Research and Practice
1st Edition
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By Richard Thelwell, Matt Dicks
December 18, 2020
Despite the rapid advance of the academic study of coaching science, there is a dearth of evidence on contemporary progressions within the coaching profession itself, particularly around the wide-ranging challenges that coaches face. Professional Advances in Sports Coaching constitutes an essential...
Athlete Learning in Elite Sport: A Cultural Framework
1st Edition
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By Natalie Barker-Ruchti
September 30, 2020
Elite athletes lead a particular way of life, which creates significant learning and shapes their selves. This is the first sociological-pedagogical text to conceptualise athlete learning in elite sport and across athletic careers. It outlines theories of learning and argues for a cultural ...
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching: A Design Thinking Approach
1st Edition
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By Fiona C. Chambers
August 14, 2020
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is an innovative, user-friendly, practical and theoretical guide for educating sports coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports coaching. Providing theoretical grounding...
Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases
1st Edition
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By Colum Cronin, Kathleen Armour
December 03, 2019
While it is accepted that sport coaches should safeguard participants, Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases argues that coaches have a duty of care that moves beyond protection and involves the development of caring relationships with athletes. Recent high-profile incidents of abuse in sport ...
Leadership in Sports Coaching: A Social Identity Approach
1st Edition
By Paul Cummins, Ian O'Boyle, Tony Cassidy
February 04, 2019
The professionalisation of sports coaching has demanded higher standards of leadership in order to improve performance and effectiveness. This book focuses on leadership in sports coaching, exploring key concepts and principles underpinned by a presentation of new empirical research. Placing social...