Background The education and training of coaches is considered central to maintaining and
improving the quality of coaching. Formal coach education is accessed by thousands of …

Coaching is a vital factor for success in sport at all levels. Sport Coaching Concepts offers a
comprehensive introduction to the theoretical issues that underpin sport coaching practice …

Background The current approaches used to develop coaches within many sport
organisations extend beyond merely the professional knowledge related to sport-specific …

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as
important as expertise in sports skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth …

Research into sport coaches' learning previously relied on descriptive learning histories and
retrospective coach perceptions that revealed little detail about the processes and outcomes …

The Canadian National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) redesigned its coaching
education programmes to utilise a learner-centred, problem-based approach. The purpose …

A constraints-led approach (CLA), based on an ecological dynamics rationale for athlete
learning and development has been applied to analyses of individual and team sports. To …

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports
coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of technologies on the knowledge transfer
process. In particular, the authors aim to analyze the topic of knowledge brokers and the …

Despite its straightforward premise, coaching has found the implementation of Game
Centered Approaches (GCAs) more difficult than is perhaps acknowledged. This paper …