Expert Performance in Sports: Advances in Research on Sport Expertise

Abstract

Part 1 The magic and the science of sport expertise - introduction to sport expertise research and this volume. Part 2 Where are we and how did we get there?: expert performance in sport - current perspectives and critical issues the development of elite performance and deliberate practice - an update from the perspective of the expert-performance approach. Part 3 Developing and retaining sport expertise: from play to practice - a developmental framework for the acquisition of expertise in team sport a search for deliberate practice - an examination of the practice environments in figure skating and volleyball tactics the neglected attribute of expertise - problem representations and performance skills in tennis expertise in sport judges and referees - circumventing information processing limitations expert athletes - an integrated approach to decision-making perceptual expertise - development in sport retaining expertise - what does it take for older expert athletes to continue to excel?. Part 4 Novel ways of examining the characteristics of expertise and related theories: the development of expertise - the role of coaching, families and cultural contexts memory and expertise - what do experienced athletes remember? expert performance in sport - views from the joint perspectives of ecological psychology and dynamical systems theory. Part 5 The great debate - is a general theory of export performance achievable?: constraints and issues in the development of general theory of expert perceptual motor performance - a critique of the deliberate practice framework how the expert-performance approach differs from traditional approaches to expertise in sports - in search of a shared theoretical framework for studying expert performances.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 350 citations exist upstream.