Description
Book SynopsisEach year, millions of youth athletes participate in organized sport under the guidance of a coach, who is entrusted with overseeing their development and performance, as well as providing a safe environment. A communicative approach to coaching recognizes that the skills, lessons, values, and experiences that athletes gain are determined by how coaches interact with athletes and structure their sporting environments. Athletic Coaching: A Communication Perspective provides a foundation for a communicative perspective of coaching in an effort to better understand and promote coach effectiveness. As part of this effort, this book conceptualizes coaching as a communicative endeavor, provides a framework from which to understand coaching effectiveness, and explicates four common perspectives (i.e., instructional, organizational, group, and interpersonal) utilized by communication scholars to examine coaching. Moreover, this book forwards a scholarly agenda for building a holist
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – A Communicative Approach to Athletic Coaching – Defining Effective Coaching – The Instructional Perspective: Coaches as Instructors – The Organizational Perspective: Coaches as Managers – The Group Perspective: Coaches as Group Members – The Interpersonal Perspective: Coaches as Relational Partners – Setting a Scholarly Agenda: Building Toward a Holistic Framework – Building Athletic Coaching Theory: Extending Confirmation Theory to Athletic Coaching.
