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“robyn jones”

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  • An Introduction to Sports Coaching

    Connecting Theory to Practice

    Edited by Kieran Kingston, Robyn Jones ...
    An Introduction to Sports Coaching provides students with an accessible and engaging guide to the scientific, social scientific, medical and pedagogical theory that underlies the practice of quality sports coaching. Now in a fully updated and revised second edition, it introduces students to the complex, messy, multi-faceted nature of coaching, and explores the full range of ‘knowledges’ which ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Sports Coaching Cultures

    From Practice to Theory

    by Kathleen M. Armour, Robyn Jones, Paul Potrac ...
    'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club.Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this groundbreaking new coaching studies text offers a view that focuses the coach as a person and the ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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  • The Psychology of Cricket: Developing Mental Toughness [Cricket Academy Series]

    Peak Performance, #2

    by Stewart Cotterill, Jamie Barker ...
    Series Book 2 - Peak Performance
    The mental side of cricket is what separates the best players from the rest.Technical, tactical, and physical preparation are important for top class performances but it is often what happens inside a player's mind that is the difference between success and failure. Whether batting, bowling, or fielding, a player's psychological strength has been identified by coaches, players, and commentators as ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essentials of School Leadership

    by Brent Davies ...
    Building on the success of the first edition, this book provides a focused up-to-date introduction to the current themes and dimensions of educational leadership through contributions from some of the leading authors in the field.Each chapter introduces the reader to a key aspect of leadership. This new edition has been fully updated to include recent developments, new chapter summaries and ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

  • What's the Point of School?

    Rediscovering the Heart of Education

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schoolsWith their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today’s schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education’s key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Psychology in Football

    Working with Elite and Professional Players

    by Mark Nesti ...
    How can the skills of the sport psychologist be put to best use within a football club?How can a sport psychologist help elite footballers perform at their maximum level?In this groundbreaking guide to the role of the sport psychologist within elite and professional football, leading sport psychologist Mark Nesti argues that working closely with coaches and players to create a receptive ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Coach Yourself

    How to create solutions in your life

    by Anthony Grant, Jane Greene ...
    Life coaching empowers people to make lasting, positive, inspirational change in their working life and life outside work. As such, coaching is a proven highly successful management technique. Many people seek coaches from within their organisation or visit a professional life coach. But many more still feel uncomfortable asking another person to fulfil this role, or don't have access to the right ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Work of Professional Football

    A Labour of Love?

    by Martin Roderick ...
    A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived.A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundation ... Read more

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  • Inspirational Teachers Inspirational Learners

    A Book of Hope for Creativity and the Curriculum in the Twenty First Century

    by Will Ryan ...
    What is it that Inspirational teachers do differently? In short, they plan for their pupils to be inspirational. Many teachers who join the teaching profession do so because they were taught by inadequate teachers and they feel they can provide a far better and more exciting education for youngsters than they received themselves. Whereas other teachers speak with clarity of detail about ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Learning Power Approach

    Teaching learners to teach themselves (The Learning Power series)

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Series series The Learning Power series
    In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students' learning muscles and develop their independence, initiative, determination, and love of learning. Foreword by Carol S. Dweck. Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge, and skills, but ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sports Coach as Educator

    Re-conceptualising Sports Coaching

    Edited by Robyn L. Jones ...
    Teaching athletes to improve their performance is the essence of sports coaching. In response to new government-led initiatives to invest in and develop coaching, this book is the first introduction to pedagogical theory for coaching. Bringing helpful insights from educational theory to bear on coaching practice, The Sports Coach as Educator expands and enriches the role of the coach and allows ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Coaching Process

    A Practical Guide to Becoming an Effective Sports Coach

    by Lynn Kidman, Stephanie J. Hanrahan ...
    In this fresh and engaging introduction to sports coaching, Lynn Kidman and Stephanie Hanrahan guide students through the coaching process. Focusing on the practical aspects of sports coaching, the book helps students to develop their basic technical skills as well as strategies for working with individual and team athletes, and to plan and implement effective coaching sessions.The book develops ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD