Reimagining Talent Development in Sport

Auteur

Andy Borrie, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Coaching and Professional Practice at the University of Derby, UK as well as running his own consultancy business. He has over 30 years' experience in elite sport and higher education as an applied sport science practitioner, lecturer and coach educator. Andy was Head of Performance at Loughborough University managing their high-performance talent programmes and helping athletes to transition on to senior international programmes. Andy has experience as an author and deliverer of coach education programmes as well as being on the Premier Leagues 'Elite Mentoring Panel'.

Emily Ryall, PhD is a Reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Emily is an applied philosopher who has worked on a wide range of projects looking at the ethical and moral foundations of how we develop sport. She has been delivering and co-designing the BASES workshop on Professional and Research Ethics. She advises sports organisations about ethical governance and is a member of a several ethics and integrity advisory committees.

Texte du rabat

This book **examines the processes, systems and fundamental beliefs about talent. It brings together researchers, practitioners and former Olympic athletes to re-imagine the way talent development programmes work. This book imagines an environment that achieves sporting success and long-term athlete wellbeing.

Résumé

Reimagining Talent Development in Sport takes a fresh look at the processes, systems and fundamental beliefs about talent. It brings together researchers, practitioners and former Olympic athletes to re-imagine the way talent development programmes work and the foundational values they are built on. This book imagines an environment that is able to achieve both sporting success and long-term athlete wellbeing.

Talent development systems are now part and parcel of all effective high performance sport systems in Olympic and professional sports. Talented young athletes are being recruited into programmes at ever younger ages as sports are looking to identify and attract athletes who they perceive have potential to become senior elite performers. However, there are fundamental challenges for talent systems in the way that they treat the young athletes within them. Just the 'mathematics' of talent development means that there will always be higher numbers of young athletes who are rejected by a system than ever become elite adult performers. So, we need new ways of thinking that allow us to find ways of nurturing athletic potential at the same time as developing the person.

Reimagining Talent Development in Sport examines new ways of conceptualising talent programmes so that the young athlete is seen as a whole person first and an athlete second. The book touches upon a wide range of topics encompassing sociological perspectives, philosophical thinking and new ideas on re-defining 'success', as well as discussing programmes that are already being implemented in pursuit of creating more ethical and positive approaches to talent development. Accessible to both academics and practitioners, Reimaging Talent Development in Sport is key reading for practitioners and academics who have an interest in talent development, skill acquisition and coaching programmes.

Contenu

Section 1: Setting the Scene

1. Talent Systems: Whose Needs Do They Serve?

Section 2: Seeing a Different World

2. Seduced by an Enigma: Narrative Reflections on the Story of Talents

3. Making Talent Development a Meaningful Process

4. An Existential Approach to Talent Development

5. Craftsmanship: Healing Modern Talent Development Using 'old medicine'

6. Salutogenisis: The Foundation for Supporting the Young Athlete

7. Compassion: A Missing Link in Talent Development

8. Thriving in Youth Talent Development Environments

Section 3: Experiencing a Different World

9. How Definitions of Success Impact on Talent Development: Bringing Long Win Thinking into Talent Development

10. The True Athlete Project (TAP)

11. Being a Gentle Renegade: Building a Mindfulness Programme for Performance Sport

12. From the Olympics to Mindfulness

Section 4: Looking across the Landscape

13. Excellence Literacy: Weaving the Threads Together