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Rhys Pritchard; Francis Dockerty – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2025
Since Bunker and Thorpe (1982. A model for the teaching of games in secondary schools. "Bulletin of Physical Education," 18(1), 5-8.) introduced Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU), there has been a growing recognition of advocating approaches to pedagogy that addresses participant learning with games-based approaches (GBA)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Physical Education, Game Based Learning, Educational Theories
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Carmen Barquero-Ruiz; David Kirk – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
Building on the original work of Bunker and Thorpe and their Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach to physical education, there is now a proliferation of Game Based Approaches (GBA) in the research literature (Bunker & Thorpe, 1982, A model for the teaching of games in secondary schools. "Bulletin of Physical Education,"…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Teaching Methods
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Dania, Aspasia – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2021
At the onset of emergency remote teaching in higher education, as a rapid response to the virus pandemic, I organised an online course that focused on Game Based Approaches. The course was part of the professional development initiatives I have been designing for Physical Education teachers over the past ten years, as a teacher educator working in…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Critical Theory, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education
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Slade, Dennis; Martin, Andrew; Watson, Geoff – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2020
An auto-ethnographic approach to framing and discussing issues has provided sport and physical education (PE) scholars with a method to capture their perspectives, ways of knowing relative to issues, and to solve problems in various contexts. However, the processes for achieving these self-reflective insights have been at the behest of the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Physical Education, Game Based Learning