Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport

The Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport provides a comprehensive and extensive range of critical reflections of key areas impacting on children's sport and coaching up to the age of 16. With coaching related chapters authored by academic across various disciplines, including nutrition, psychology, pedagogy, medicine, youth development and sociology, the text provides detailed reviews of the existing state of research and consideration of the implications of these particular factors upon parents, coaches, administrators and clearly the young people themselves as well as recommendations for future research.

This new volume provides in-depth investigation to key topics of coaching topics such as Learning and Child Development, Protecting Young Athletes, Talent Identification and Development and Inclusive Coaching and finally introduce a broad array of contextual considerations for coaches from considering professional learning through to coaching in particular contexts.

This book is more than simply an academic text and it offers insights that will further inform practice in children's sport coaching. The handbook is relevant for students (UG, PG), researchers, academics, parents, coaches and administrators, as well as those interested in children's sport coaching and the related topics therein.

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Report

"Beyond other resources, the Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport provides a contemporary overview of a wide-range of key topic areas associated with coaching children in sport. This book provides a breadth and depth of child-specific coaching content like no other, and is therefore important reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested (or working) in child and youth sport."

-Ed Cope, Loughborough University, UK

Product details

• Authors: Martin (University of Birmingham Toms, Martin Jeanes Toms
• Assisted by: Ruth Jeanes (Editor), Jeanes Ruth (Editor), Martin Toms (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032058191
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3205819-1
• No. of pages: 490
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching / General, Sports training & coaching, Teaching of a specific subject, Sports training and coaching, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten