Sport coaching has grown significantly as an area of research interest with an expanding number of sport coaching programs offered. The past decade or so has also seen significant interest in games-based approaches to coaching and teaching games. On a global level, Game Sense is one of the most recognized athlete-centred approaches for team sports, probably close behind Teaching Games for Understanding.
Game Sense for Coaching and Teaching provides an understanding of how an Australian approach to coaching has grown and developed as it has been taken up across the globe. While the focus is on Game Sense, the book also offers insights into how any coaching or physical education (PE) teaching approach changes as it is adapted to different contexts across the world, examining the theoretical, historical and philosophical foundations of sport coaching and teaching in schools.
This book is particularly useful for undergraduate and post-graduate sport coaching and PE courses but is also likely to be of interest for all practicing sports coaches or physical education teachers and lecturers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Game Sense: Its History, Development and Future
Part 1: Theorizing Game Sense
2. Humanism and Holism: The Philosophical Foundations of Game Sense
3. Reconciling Approaches: Informing Game Sense Coaching Pedagogy with a Constraints-led Perspective
4: The Body and Learning through Game Sense
Part 2: Game Sense and Culture
5. Game Sense, Culture and Learning: A Focus on Asia
6. The Influence of Context on Teachers’ and Coaches’ Use of GBA
7. The Influence of Games and Culture on Indigenous AFL and NRL Players’ Development of Expertise
8. Adapting a Game Sense Approach to Coaching Rugby in Chile
9. Ako and Indigenous Athletes: Kaupapa Māori Principles and Game Sense Pedagogy
Part 3: Coaching and Teaching Issues in Game Sense
10. Teaching Decision-making and Creativity as a Vital Issue for Teacher Education – A Qualitative Intervention Study with German Trainee Teachers
11. A Bigger Picture: Aligning Game Sense with Curriculum Standards
12. Discovering Game Shape through Cooperative Team Adventures
13. English and Australian Teachers’ Interpretation and Use of GBA
14. What Do Children Learn from the Game? A Study of Elementary Physical Education in Aichi, Japan
15. Applied Game Sense and Positive Pedagogy in High School Rugby
16. The Utility of Game Sense for PE Teachers, Sport Coaches and Policy-makers: A Models Based Narrative
Part 4: The Development of Game Sense
17. Implementing TGfU in an Australian Independent School: An Affective Journey
18. The Use of Coaching Pods for Coach Education in Croquet Coaching Pods: Possibilities for Game Sense
19. What’s in a Name? The Influence of Game Sense on a New Zealand Basketball Coach’s Practice
20. From the Games Concept Approach to Game Sense to Positive Pedagogy: My Pedagogical Journey
21. Learning from Adaptation Games in a Japanese Basketball Unit
Concluding Thoughts: Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching Globally
