Routledge Research in Sports Coaching

<p><em>Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching</em> 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. </p><p>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: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>supporting novice volunteer coaches’ learning</li> <p> </p> <li>the learning needs of novice volunteer coaches and novice professional coaches</li> <p> </p> <li>professional communities of learning in coaching</li> <p> </p> <li>the impact of coaching behaviours on learning environments</li> <p> </p> <li>autonomy-supportive learning environments</li> <p> </p> <li>coaching children, young people and adults </li> </ul><p>Closing with a critique of the sports coach mentor as design thinker, <i>Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching</i> 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.</p>