Community Sport Coaching

<p>In many Western nations community sport coaches occupy a central role in supporting the physical health mental wellbeing and wider social development of individuals and communities. However there is no existing academic textbook that examines the policy contexts in which their work is located or indeed the challenges and opportunities that are an inherent feature of their everyday practice.</p><p>Bringing together an international team of leading researchers in sport policy sport development sport pedagogy and sport coaching as well as some of the best emerging talents this book is the first to critically consider a range of policy and practice issues directly connected to community sport coaching.</p><p>Comprehensive timely and cutting-edge no other text brings together in one place such a depth and breadth of scholarly material addressing this important field of endeavour. This book is an essential resource for educators students practitioners and policy makers concerned with community sport coaching globally.</p>