Abstract

This publication captures a range of theoretical, professional and practical issues in talent identification and development and seeks to distil them into an applied framework of use to coaches, teachers and students in higher education. It makes an equally strong case for a sound, well balanced and high quality physical education curriculum in schools, as a basis for talent identification and development as well as for lifelong participation in sport and physical activity in general. In addition the importance of acknowledging fundamental issues in children's growth and development patterns as well as their needs and interests as adolescents remains as strong. In addition to inevitable advances in the knowledge base, the evolution of ever more comprehensive systems to find and provide for talented young people, often fuelled by national interests in doing well in sport, and the sophistication of the methods used have changed over the years. Whilst the influence of the model developed in the former German Democratic Republic continues to this day, based largely as it was on physical parameters of performance, it has been complemented and to an extent reshaped by the emergence of more sensitive approaches that acknowledge a broader more holistic view of the field, paying much greater attention to such things as the dispositions and personal qualities that individuals possess. There have also been advances in the way that talent is conceived, which highlight a need to offer more opportunities for that talent to show itself, as well as greater recognition of the value of more developmental approaches that are sensitive to the nature and process of adolescence. In order to portray effectively the scope of the field of talent identification and development and to best reflect the multi-disciplinary and applied principles on which books in this series are based, the content is presented in two sections: the first looking at disciplinary approaches and the second dealing with themes and models. Whilst it is impossible to cover the entire field in either section, leading authors were invited to write on a selection of key disciplinary approaches and related issues and together they provide a reasonable representation of what is happening across the world in talent identification and development. Die Autoren und ihre Beiträge sind: 1. Bailey, Richard: Philosophical perspectives on talent development. 2. Holt, Nicholas L.: Psychological perspectives on talent identification and development in sport. 3. Philippaerts, Renaat M.; Coutts, Aaron; Vaeyens, Roel: Physiological perspectives on the identification and development of talented performers in sport. 4. Cooke, Carlton: Biomechanical perspectives on the identification and development of talent in sport. 5. Burnett, Cora: Sociological perspectives of the sporting lives of elite African athletes. 6. Malina, Robert M.: Talent development in sport : concepts and issues. 7. Fisher, Richard: Education and talent identification and development in sport. 8. Brettschneider, Wolf-Dietrich; Gerlach, Erin: Talent development: developing children’s talent and/or development of talented children : pedagogical aspects of motor giftedness. 9. Brittain, Ian: The search for sporting excellence – disability sport. 10. Reilly, Tom; Williams, Mark; Richardson, David: Talent identification and development in football. 11. Strachan, Leisha; MacDonald, Danny J.; Fraser-Thomas, Jessica; Côté, Jean: Youth sport: talent, socialisation, and development. Vorwort (geändert) und Inhaltsverzeichnis