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Best practice for youth sport / Robin S. Vealey, PhD, Miami University, Melissa A. Chase, PhD.

By: Contributor(s): Illinois : Human KInetics, c2016 copyright 2016Description: xviii, 414 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780736066969 (print)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.083 .V394 2016
LOC classification:
  • GV709.2 .V43 2016
Summary: "In Best Practice for Youth Sport, readers will gains an appreciation of an array of issues regarding youth sport. The content is based on the principle of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP), which involves engaging in decisions, behaviors, and policies that meet the physical, psychological, and social needs of children and youth based on their ages and levels of maturity. This groundbreaking resource covers a breadth of topics, including bone development, burnout, gender and racial stereotypes, injuries, motor behavior, and parental pressures. Armed with the knowledge from this text, students, coaches, parents, administrators, and others will be able to become active agents of social change in structuring and enhancing youth sport programs to meet the unique developmental needs of children, making the programs athlete centered rather than adult centered so that they truly are all about the kids. Instructor ancillaries, including an instructor guide, test package, and image bank, can be found at www.HumanKinetics.com/BestPracticeForYouthSport." --Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-403) and index.

"In Best Practice for Youth Sport, readers will gains an appreciation of an array of issues regarding youth sport. The content is based on the principle of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP), which involves engaging in decisions, behaviors, and policies that meet the physical, psychological, and social needs of children and youth based on their ages and levels of maturity. This groundbreaking resource covers a breadth of topics, including bone development, burnout, gender and racial stereotypes, injuries, motor behavior, and parental pressures.
Armed with the knowledge from this text, students, coaches, parents, administrators, and others will be able to become active agents of social change in structuring and enhancing youth sport programs to meet the unique developmental needs of children, making the programs athlete centered rather than adult centered so that they truly are all about the kids.
Instructor ancillaries, including an instructor guide, test package, and image bank, can be found at www.HumanKinetics.com/BestPracticeForYouthSport." --Provided by publisher.

Young Adult

Text in English

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