Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching
is an innovative, user-friendly, practical and theoretical guide for educating sports coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports coaching.
Providing theoretical grounding in mentoring conversations, design thinking and case study research, the book centres on a series of redesigned mentoring conversations between some of the world’s leading sports coaching experts, coach educators, mentors and mentees. It covers topics such as:
supporting novice volunteer coaches’ learning
the learning needs of novice volunteer coaches and novice professional coaches
professional communities of learning in coaching
the impact of coaching behaviours on learning environments
autonomy-supportive learning environments
coaching children, young people and adults
Closing with a critique of the sports coach mentor as design thinker,
is important reading for any upper-level student or researcher working in sports coaching, sports pedagogy or youth sport, and any coach looking to integrate sound mentoring theory into their professional practice.