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Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed into a coherent and substantial field of scholarly enquiry with a rich and sophisticated research literature. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching is the first book to survey the full depth and breadth of contemporary coaching studies, mapping the existing disciplinary territory and opening up important new areas of research. Bringing together many of the world's leading coaching scholars and practitioners working across the full range of psychological, social and pedagogical perspectives, the book helps to develop an understanding of sports coaching that reflects its complex, dynamic and messy reality. With more importance than ever before being attached to the role of the coach in developing and shaping the sporting experience for participants at all levels of sport, this book makes an important contribution to the professionalization of coaching and the development of coaching theory. It is important reading for all students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in this young and flourishing area.

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Dr Paul Potrac is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Sport, Health, and Exercise Science at the University of Hull. His research interests focus on exploring the social complexity of sports coaching, with a particular emphasis on the political and emotional nature of coaching practice. He has co-authored Sports coaching cultures: From practice to theory (Routledge, 2004), Understanding sports coaching: The social, cultural, and pedagogical foundations of coaching practice (Routledge, 2004 & 2009) and A sociological analysis of sports coaching (Routledge, in press). He has also published his research in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Sport, Education and Society, The International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Quest. Dr. Wade Gilbert is an Associate Professor and Sport Psychology Coordinator in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Fresno. He has co-authored nearly 50 papers on sports coaching in books and academic periodicals including Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, The Sport Psychologist, Olympic Coach, International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, Journal of Sport Behavior, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, Journal of Coaching Education, and the Handbook of Physical Education. He has directed research and applied consulting partnerships with coaches and athletes in the United States and Canada at the youth, college and Olympic levels across a wide range of sports. Most recently Wade was selected to chair the Scientific Advisory Board for BeLikeCoach, a non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of youth sport settings. Dr. Jim Denison is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Canada and Director of the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the social construction and historical formation of coaching ""knowledges"" and coaching and athletic identities. He edited Coaching Knowledges: Understanding the Dynamics of Performance Sport (2007, AC Black) and co-edited with Pirkko Markula, Moving Writing: Crafting Movement in Sport Research (2003, Peter Lang). He is the Associate Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching.

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