Handbook of Sport Coaching Research

Edited by Bettina Callary, Gordon A. Bloom, Steven B. Rynne and Brian T. Gearity

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Abstract: This enlightening Handbook draws on a broad array of interdisciplinary fields to provide a nuanced exploration of contemporary research in sports coaching. Esteemed scholars assess cutting edge scholarship, uncovering potential tensions and contestations while encouraging future debate.

Keywords: Sport Psychology; Sport Pedagogy; Sport Sociology; Coach Education; Coaching Science; Sport Coaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035341634
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Understanding sport coaching as a dynamic and contested research domain

Bettina Callary, Gordon A. Bloom, Steven B. Rynne and Brian T. Gearity

Ch 2 From then to now: a short history of sport coaching research

Wade Gilbert

Ch 3 A reflection tool to foster transformational coaching behaviors

Mia KurtzFavero, Jordan S. Lefebvre, Jennifer Turnnidge and Jean Côté

Ch 4 Coaching life skills in youth athletes

Scott Pierce and Daniel Gould

Ch 5 Integrating technology into coaching and the coach-athlete relationship

Douglas Stewart and Sophia Jowett

Ch 6 The role of passion in sport coaching

Robert J. Vallerand, Jérémie Verner-Filion and Benjamin J. I. Schellenberg

Ch 7 Coach burnout

Göran Kenttä and Thomas D. Raedeke

Ch 8 Mentoring and developmental networks

Jordan S. Lefebvre, Danielle Alexander-Urquhart, Koon Teck Koh and Gordon A. Bloom

Ch 9 Elite sport coaches as architects, sculptors, leaders, and performers

Clifford J. Mallett, V. Vanessa Wergin and James Coleman

Ch 10 The constraints-led approach: how skill acquisition principles can inform learning design in sport

Adam D. Gorman, Keith Davids, Brendan Moy and Ian Renshaw

Ch 11 Creating coaching episodes for retrieval and creativity using The Spectrum of Coaching Styles and Game Based Approaches

Brendan SueSee and Shane Pill

Ch 12 Sport coaching research using an andragogical perspective

Bettina Callary

Ch 13 Towards effectiveness of learner-centered pedagogical practices in coach education: the urgency of designing learner-centered curriculums

Michel Milistetd and Lincoln Cruz Martins

Ch 14 Tangohia te awe māpara: Māori pedagogies in sport coaching

Jeremy Hapeta, Luke Rowe, Mohi Rua and Isaac Warbrick

Ch 15 Getting to the heart of the matter

Robyn L. Jones, Gethin L. I. Thomas and Charles L. T. Corsby

Ch 16 Women sport coaches, gender essentialism, and media representations

Claire Wanzer, Anna Goorevich and Nicole M. LaVoi

Ch 17 Understanding dis/ableism in sport coaching

Robert C. Townsend, Kelsey M. Randrup, Olivia Clare and William M. Roberts

Ch 18 The scholar-coach undone: poststructural sport coaching inquiry

Sara Campbell, Brian T. Gearity, Clayton Kuklick and Joseph Mills

Ch 19 Intersectionality and positionality in youth sport coaching: implications for research

Tarkington J. Newman, Fernando Santos and Marta Ferreira

Ch 20 Doing critical coaching research: issues and opportunities

Christopher Cushion

Ch 21 A nudge to sport coaching scholarship and the ‘researcher-developer’ or ‘developer-researcher’ role

Julian North

Ch 22 Futures in sport coaching: new materialisms and the doing of agential realism

Allison Jeffrey, Pirkko Markula and Marianne Clark

Ch 23 Digital technology in coach learning and development

Katherine A. O’Brien and Andrew Kennedy

Ch 24 Coaches’ roles and needs around safeguarding sport

Joseph Gurgis, Gretchen Kerr and Ashley Stirling

Ch 25 The sport coaching researcher: one actor in a complex world

Pierre Trudel and Bettina Callary

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