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Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding

Pill, Shane, Gambles, Ellen-Alyssa and Griffin, Linda (2023) Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding. Routledge, New York, USA. ISBN 9781032287294

Item Type: Book

Abstract

This new book brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to provide a range of perspectives on teaching games and sport for understanding. Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding engages undergraduate and postgraduate students in physical education and sport coaching, practicing teachers, practicing sport coaches, teacher educators and coach developers. The contributions, taken together or individually, provide insight, learning and opportunities to foster game-based teaching and coaching ideas, and provide conceptual and methodological clarity where a sense of pedagogical confusion may exist.

Each chapter raises issues that can resonate with the teacher and sport practitioner and researcher. In this way, the chapters can assist one to make sense of their own teaching or sport coaching, provide deeper insight into personal conceptualisations of the concept of game-based teaching and sport coaching or stimulate reflections on their own teaching or coaching or the contexts they are involved in.

Teaching games and sport for understanding in various guises and pedagogical models has been proposed as leading practice for session design and instructional delivery of sport teaching in PE and sport coaching since the late 1960s. At its core, it is a paradigm shift from what can be described as a behaviourist model of highly directive instruction for player replication of teacher/coach explanation and demonstration to instructional models that broadly are aimed at the development of players self-autonomy as self-regulated learners –‘thinking players’.

This innovative new volume both summarises current thinking, debates and practical considerations about the broad spectrum of what teaching games for understanding means as well as providing direction for further practical, pragmatic and research consideration of the concept and its precepts and, as such, is key reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of physical education and sport coaching as well as practicing teachers and sport coaches.

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More Information

Uncontrolled Keywords: Physical Education, Coaching Theory, Sports Pedagogy, Secondary Physical Education, Sport Education, Qualitative methods in sport, Curriculum Studies, Education, Sports Coaching, Sports and Leisure, Physical Education, Research Methods
Depositing User: Ellen Gambles

Identifiers

Item ID: 16768
ISBN: 9781032287294
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/16768
Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-Games-and-Sport...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Shane Pill: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3970-6724
ORCID for Ellen-Alyssa Gambles: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5931-136X

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2023 09:25
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2023 09:25

Contributors

Author: Shane Pill ORCID iD
Author: Ellen-Alyssa Gambles ORCID iD
Author: Linda Griffin

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Nursing and Health Sciences > Department of Sport and Excercise Sciences

Subjects

Education > Educational Research
Sciences > Sport Sciences
Education

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