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Exploring Sport and Fitness: Work-Based Practice [Kõva köide]

Edited by (The Open University, UK), Edited by (The Open University, UK), Edited by (The Open University, UK)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 354 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 760 g, 43 Tables, black and white; 40 Line drawings, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 041549155X
  • ISBN-13: 9780415491556
  • Formaat: Hardback, 354 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 760 g, 43 Tables, black and white; 40 Line drawings, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 041549155X
  • ISBN-13: 9780415491556
Exploring Sport and Fitness is a comprehensive guide to the development of essential professional and interpersonal skills in the sport, leisure and fitness sector. Designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace, the book introduces the fundamental principles of reflective practice in sport and fitness, and explains how students and professionals can develop their personal effectiveness and workplace performance.
The book draws together important material from a wide range of academic and professional sources, including articles from leading experts in sport management, psychology and coaching, and explores key topics such as: Reflective practice, The importance of effective communication, Motivation and Leadership, Working in teams, Working with customers, Learning and instructional frameworks for coaches and instructors, Organisational cultures in sport and fitness.
Exploring Sport and Fitness is essential reading for all students of sport, leisure and fitness management, sports coaching or sports development, and for all sport and fitness professionals looking to improve their performance and practice.

Exploring Sport and Fitness is a comprehensive guide to the development of essential professional and interpersonal skills in the sport, leisure and fitness sector. Designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace, the book introduces the fundamental principles of reflective practice in sport and fitness, and explains how students and professionals can develop their personal effectiveness and workplace performance.

The book draws together important material from a wide range of academic and professional sources, including articles from leading experts in sport management, psychology and coaching, and explores key topics such as:

  • reflective practice

  • the importance of effective communication
  • motivation and Leadership
  • working in teams
  • working with customers
  • learning and instructional frameworks for coaches and instructors
  • organizational cultures in sport and fitness

Exploring Sport and Fitness is essential reading for all students of sport, leisure and fitness management, sports coaching or sports development, and for all sport and fitness professionals looking to improve their performance and practice.

1. Reflection Principles and Practice  2. Using Reflective Practice  an
Open University Perspective  3. The Where, What and Why of Reflective
Practice  4. The 'How to' of Reflection  5. Evaluating Professional Practice
Through Reflection: Professionalism in the Workplace  6. Reflective Practice 
7. Experiential and Reflective Learning 
8. Thinking About Motivation in the
Workplace 
9. Motivating People in the Workplace 
10. Creating a Motivational
Climate 
11. Outcome, Performance and Process Goals 
12. Active Listening and
Effective Questioning in Sport and Fitness 
13. Ethical and Professional
Issues in Sport and Exercise 
14. Communication and Groups 
15. Valuing
Diversity 
16. What is Leadership? 
17. A Leadership Approach to Managing
People 
18. Leading Teams for Success 
19. Understanding Organisational
Culture in Sport 
20. Leading Change and Strategic Planning 
21. Learning How
to Coach: The Different Learning Situations Reported by Coaches  22. Learning
Physical Skills: Theoretical Perspectives 
23. What Makes Successful
Sessions? 
24. Coaching and Learning Styles 
25. Coaching and Instruction:
Understanding and Developing Professional Knowledge 
26. Identifying
Customers and Their Expectations 
27. Getting the Most out of a Sport and
Fitness Facility 
28. Self-Employment Programming to Manage Time and
Energy 
29. The Sport Marketing Communications Mix
Caroline Heaney, Ben Oakley, Simon Rea