Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching

Richard Light is Professorial Research Fellow in Human Movement in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Ballarat, Australia.John Quay is Program Director for and lecturer in Pedagogy, Health and Physical Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia. Stephen Harvey is Principal Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport at the University of Bedfordshire, England.Amanda Mooney is Program Co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Education (Physical Education) and lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Ballarat, Australia.

• Introduction Part 1 – Recent pedagogical and policy developments in games teaching 1. Game as context in physical education: A Deweyan philosophical perspective 2. Game Sense as a model for delivering positive pedagogy in physical education 3. Teaching how to play and teach games in Singapore: A Decade in the Field 4. The challenge for radical curricula innovation in teaching ball games in Japan 5. Play Practice - an innovative model for developing skillful players in sport 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 7. ‘Girls get going’: Using Games Sense to promote sport participation amongst adolescent girls in rural and regional contexts in Australia 8. The influence of school context on physical education teachers taking up TGfU 9. Australian rugby coaches views on learning and its implications for the uptake of Game Sense Part 3: Issues in adopting games based approaches 10. Subjectivity as a resource for improving players’ decision-making 11. Questions and answers: Understanding the connection between questioning and knowledge in game centred approaches 12. The body thinking: assessment in game-centred approaches to teaching and coaching 13. Learning games concepts by design Conclusion