Abstract des Verlegers

The teaching of games is a central component of any physical education or youth sport programme. Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching brings together leading international researchers and practitioners in physical education and sports coaching to examine new approaches in games teaching and team sport coaching that are player/student-centred and inquiry-based. The book aims to bridge the gap between research and practice by exploring contemporary games teaching from pedagogical, policy and research perspectives. It offers interesting new commentary and research data on well-established models such as Teaching Games for Understanding (TFfU), Game Sense, Play Practice and the Games Concept Approach (GCA), as well as introducing innovative and exciting approaches emerging in East Asia, including Singapore and Japan. Introduction - Richard Light and Amanda Mooney Part 1 – Recent pedagogical and policy developments in games teaching 1. Game as context in physical education: A Deweyan philosophical perspective - John Quay and Steve Stolz 2. Game Sense as a model for delivering positive pedagogy in physical education - Richard L. Light 3. Teaching how to play and teach games in Singapore: A Decade in the Field - Joan Fry and Mike Mcneill 4. The challenge for radical curricula innovation in teaching ball games in Japan - Naoki Suzuki 5. Play Practice - an innovative model for developing skillful players in sport - Wendy Piltz Part 2: Research on the implementation of games-based approaches 6. Game-centred approaches to teaching and coaching games: A review of literature since 2006 - Kendall Jarrett and Stephen Harvey 7. ‘Girls get going’: Using Games Sense to promote sport participation amongst adolescent girls in rural and regional contexts in Australia - Amanda Mooney and Meghan Casey 8. The influence of school context on physical education teachers taking up TGfU - Christina Curry and Richard L. Light 9. Australian rugby coaches views on learning and its implications for the uptake of Game Sense - John R. Evans Part 3: Issues in adopting games based approaches 10. Subjectivity as a resource for improving players’ decision-making - Alain Mouchet 11. Questions and answers: Understanding the connection between questioning and knowledge in game centred approaches - Greg Forrest 12. The body thinking: assessment in game-centred approaches to teaching and coaching - Stephen Harvey, Edward Cope and Ruan Jones 13. Learning games concepts by design - Adrian Turner Conclusion - Stephen Harvey, John Quay and Richard Light