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1 online resource (527 pages) |
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Routledge International Handbooks |
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Routledge international handbooks.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; 1 Talent identification and development in sport: An introduction; Part I Talent identification; 2 Does talent exist? Yes!; 3 Does talent exist? A re-evaluation of the nature-nurture debate; 4 Conceptions of giftedness and talent; 5 How contemporary international perspectives have consolidated a best-practice approach for identifying and developing sporting talent |
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6 Why conceptualizations of talent matter: Implications for skill acquisition and talent identification and development7 On the efficacy of talent identification and talent development programmes; 8 Applied statistics for practitioners and researchers; Part II Talent development; 9 Sport activity in childhood: Early specialization and diversification; 10 Method in the madness: Working towards a viable 'paradigm' for better understanding and supporting the athlete pathway; 11 Talent identification and development in the context of "growing up." |
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12 Psychological factors in developing high performance athletes13 Family influences on talent development in sport; 14 Understanding environmental and task constraints on talent development: Analysis of micro-structure of practice and macro-structure of development histories; 15 Perceptual-cognitive training: The next piece of the puzzle; 16 Windows of optimal development; 17 Could sports biomechanics provide the missing pieces to the talent identification and development puzzle?; 18 Longitudinal studies of athlete development: Their importance, methods and future considerations |
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Part III Creating optimal environments19 Creating optimal environments for talent development: A holistic ecological approach; 20 On the (potential) value of coaching; 21 Group cohesion and athlete development; 22 Applied motor learning: Optimal environments for successful development; 23 Understanding dropout in the athlete development process; 24 A smooth sea never made a skilful sailor: Optimizing and exploiting the rocky road in talent development; Part IV Health and development concerns; 25 Understanding underrecovery, overtraining, and burnout in the developing athlete |
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26 Medical perspectives on talent development in youth sports27 Developing talent while promoting positive youth development: A balancing act; 28 High performance sport and athlete health; 29 Issues of maltreatment in high performance athlete development: Mental toughness as a threat to athlete welfare; Part V Emerging issues; 30 The role of analytics in assessing playing talent; 31 Talent development in parasport; 32 The structured repsychling of talent: Talent transfer; 33 Talent policies; 34 Concluding, but definitely not conclusive, remarks on talent identification and development; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sports.
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sports.
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Sports
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cobley, Stephen
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Schorer, Jörg
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Wattie, Nick
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| ISBN |
9781317359845 |
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1317359844 |
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