Table of Contents

Part I: Sports coaching: Mentor as design thinker

1. An ecological, reflexive and praxis oriented mentor training programme: The role of the mentoring conversation

2. What is design thinking? A case study of using design thinking in a sports coaching context

Part II: Sports Coaching: Case studies of mentoring conversations

3. Making the transitions from the UEFA Advanced Licence to the UEFA Professional Licence (or not)

4. A mentoring conversation in community sports coaching: Martyn Cooke (mentor) and Lisa Snape (mentee)

5. An Irish case study conversation: Rugby

6. Giving voice to the nodding donkey: A critical-humanistic approach to mentoring from down under

7. Portuguese case study conversation: Handball

8. The coffee club

9. A Canadian case study conversation: Mentorship in elite women’s ice hockey

10.An Irish case study conversation: Gaelic games

11. A university academic mentor–mentee relationship in practice: A Northern Irish sports coaching degree

Part III: Sports coach mentor as design thinker: Some final thoughts

12. Lessons learned: Sports coach mentor as design thinker

About the Author

Fiona C. Chambers is Head of the School of Education and Programme Director of Sports Studies and Physical Education at University College Cork, Ireland, and Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Athens, Georgia, USA. Dr. Chambers is on the Board of Trustees for the Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d’Éducation Physique (AIESEP) and is co-founder of All Island All Active. She is also the Link Convener of the European Educational Research Association Network 18: Research in Sport Pedagogy and works as an advisor to the Teaching Council of Ireland.