Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport is a completely
new kind of resource for students and practitioners working in physical
education or youth sport. The book consists of 20 richly described cases
of individual young learners, each written by a team of authors with
diverse expertise from across the sport, exercise and movement sciences.
These cases bring together knowledge from single sub-disciplines into
new interdisciplinary knowledge to inform best practice in physical
education, teaching and coaching in youth sport settings.
At the heart of each case is an individual young person of a specified
age and gender, with a range of physical, social and psychological
characteristics. Drawing on current research, theory and empirical data
from their own specialist discipline, each chapter author identifies the
key factors they feel should be taken into account when attempting to
teach or coach the young person described. These strands are then drawn
together at the end of each chapter and linked to current research from
the sport pedagogy literature, to highlight the implications for
planning and evaluating teaching or coaching sessions.
No other book offers such a rich, vivid and thought-provoking set of
pedagogical tools for understanding and working with children and young
people in sport. This is an essential resource for any student on a
physical education, coaching, kinesiology or sport science course, and
for any teacher, coach or instructor working in physical education or
youth sport.
