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Game sense [electronic book] : pedagogy for performance, participation and enjoyment / Richard Light

By: Light, Richard (Richard Lawrence) [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge studies in physical education and youth sport: Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: online resource (xv, 239 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780415532877 (hardback); 9780415532084 (paperback); 9780203114643 (e-book).Subject(s): Physical education and training -- Study and teaching | Sports -- Study and teaching | Sports for children -- Study and teaching | Coaching (Athletics) | Sports for children -- CoachingDDC classification: 613.707 Online resources: Access eBook
Contents:
Introduction -- The development of game sense -- Theorizing leaning in and through game sense -- Game sense for physical education and sport coaching -- Game sense pedagogy -- Assessing knowledge-in-action in team games -- Touch rugby -- Oztag -- Australian football -- Soccer -- Field hockey -- Basketball -- Netball -- Cricket (kanga) -- Softball -- Ultimate frisbee -- Volleyball.
Summary: "Game Sense is an exciting and innovative approach to coaching and physical education that places the game at the heart of the session. It encourages the player to develop skills in a realistic context, to become more tactically aware, to make better decisions, and to have more fun. Game Sense is a comprehensive, research-informed introduction to the Game Sense approach that defines and explores key concepts and essential pedagogical theory, and that offers an extensive series of practical examples and plans for using Game Sense in real teaching and coaching situations.The first section of the book helps the reader to understand how learning occurs and how this informs player-centred pedagogy, and explains the relationship between Game Sense and other approaches to Teaching Games for Understanding. The second section of the book demonstrates how the theory can be applied in practice, providing a detailed, step-by-step guide to using Game Sense in eleven sports, including soccer, basketball, field hockey and softball. No other book explores the Game Sense approach in such depth, or combines both the theory and innovative practical techniques. Game Sense is invaluable reading for all students of physical education or sports coaching, any in-service physical education teacher, or any sports coach working with children or young people. "-- Provided by publisher

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Game Sense is an exciting and innovative approach to coaching and physical education that places the game at the heart of the session. It encourages the player to develop skills in a realistic context, to become more tactically aware, to make better decisions and to have more fun. Game Sense is a comprehensive, research-informed introduction to the Game Sense approach that defines and explores key concepts and essential pedagogical theory, and that offers an extensive series of practical examples and plans for using Game Sense in real teaching and coaching situations.

The first section of the book helps the reader to understand how learning occurs and how this informs player-centred pedagogy. It also explains the relationship between Game Sense and other approaches to Teaching Games for Understanding. The second section of the book demonstrates how the theory can be applied in practice, providing a detailed, step-by-step guide to using Game Sense in eleven sports, including soccer, basketball, field hockey and softball.

No other book explores the Game Sense approach in such depth, or combines theory and innovative practical techniques. Game Sense is invaluable reading for all students of physical education or sports coaching, any in-service physical education teacher or any sports coach working with children or young people.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-236) and index

Introduction -- The development of game sense -- Theorizing leaning in and through game sense -- Game sense for physical education and sport coaching -- Game sense pedagogy -- Assessing knowledge-in-action in team games -- Touch rugby -- Oztag -- Australian football -- Soccer -- Field hockey -- Basketball -- Netball -- Cricket (kanga) -- Softball -- Ultimate frisbee -- Volleyball.

"Game Sense is an exciting and innovative approach to coaching and physical education that places the game at the heart of the session. It encourages the player to develop skills in a realistic context, to become more tactically aware, to make better decisions, and to have more fun. Game Sense is a comprehensive, research-informed introduction to the Game Sense approach that defines and explores key concepts and essential pedagogical theory, and that offers an extensive series of practical examples and plans for using Game Sense in real teaching and coaching situations.The first section of the book helps the reader to understand how learning occurs and how this informs player-centred pedagogy, and explains the relationship between Game Sense and other approaches to Teaching Games for Understanding. The second section of the book demonstrates how the theory can be applied in practice, providing a detailed, step-by-step guide to using Game Sense in eleven sports, including soccer, basketball, field hockey and softball. No other book explores the Game Sense approach in such depth, or combines both the theory and innovative practical techniques. Game Sense is invaluable reading for all students of physical education or sports coaching, any in-service physical education teacher, or any sports coach working with children or young people. "-- Provided by publisher

Electronic reproduction:. ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Richard Light is Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, University of Ballarat, Australia. Richard was a foundation member of the Teaching Games for Understanding Task Force within AIESEP (International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education) and the convenor of the second international TGfU conference in Melbourne in 2003 and the 2006 Asia-Pacific Conference for Teaching Physical Education and Sport for Understanding in Sydney, Australia. He coordinated the pre-conference TGfU symposia at the 2006 AIESEP World Congress in Finland, the 2008 AIESEP Congress in Japan and the 2008 ISCPES conference at the University of Macau. Richard has edited volumes on TGfU and the Games Approach to sport coaching.