Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the critical issues facing those pursuing research in elite sport. Exploring how athletes reach and stay at the pinnacle of their sport, it identifies questions typically asked in this field and offers theoretical and practical applications for its development.
Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Magic and the Science of Sport Expertise: Introduction to Sport Expertise Research and This Volume
Janet L. Starkes
Part II. Where Are We and How Did We Get There?
Chapter 2. Expert Performance in Sport: Current Perspectives and Critical Issues
Christopher M. Janelle and Charles H. Hillman
Chapter 3. Development of Elite Performance and Deliberate Practice: An Update From the Perspective of the Expert Performance Approach
K. Anders Ericsson
Part III. Developing and Retaining Sport Expertise
Chapter 4. From Play to Practice: A Developmental Framework for the Acquisition of Expertise in Team Sport
Jean Cï ¿Å“tï ¿Å“, Joseph Baker, and Bruce Abernethy
Chapter 5. A Search for Deliberate Practice: An Examination of the Practice Environments in Figure Skating and Volleyball
Janice M. Deakin and Stephen Cobley
Chapter 6. Tactics, the Neglected Attribute of Expertise: Problem Representations and Performance Skills in Tennis
Sue L. McPherson and Michael W. Kernodle
Chapter 7. Expertise in Sport Judges and Referees: Circumventing Information Processing Limitations
Diane Ste-Marie
Chapter 8. Expert Athletes: An Integrated Approach to Decision Making
Gershon Tenenbaum
Chapter 9. Perceptual Expertise: Development in Sport
A. Mark Williams and Paul Ward
Chapter 10. Retaining Expertise: What Does it Take For Older Expert Athletes to Continue to Excel?
Janet L. Starkes, Patricia L. Weir, and Bradley W. Young
Part IV. Novel Ways of Examining the Characteristics of Expertise and Related Theories
Chapter 11. Development of Expertise: The Role of Coaching, Families, and Cultural Contexts
John H. Salmela and Luiz Carlos Moraes
Chapter 12. Memory and Expertise: What Do Experienced Athletes Remember?
Sian L. Beilock, Sarah A. Wierenga, and Thomas H. Carr
Chapter 13. Expert Performance in Sport: Views From the Joint Perspectives of Ecological Psychology and Dynamical Systems Theory
Peter Beek, D. Jacobs, A. Daffertshofer, and R. Huys
Part V. The Great Debate: Is a General Theory of Expert Performance Achievable?
Chapter 14. Constraints and Issues in the Development of a General Theory of Expert Perceptual-Motor Performance: A Critique of the Deliberate Practice Framework
Bruce Abernethy, Damian Farrow, and Jason Berry
Chapter 15. How the Expert Performance Approach Differs From Traditional Approaches to Expertise in Sports: In Search of a Shared Theoretical Framework for Studying Expert Performance
K. Anders Ericsson
