Over 30 years ago the original teaching games for understanding (TGfU) proposition was
published in a special edition of the Bulletin of Physical Education (Bunker and Thorpe …

The purpose of this review was to establish what is currently known about the effect of the
Sport Education (SE) curriculum model (Siedentop,) on various indices of student learning in …

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists? In this
controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a …

The instructional technology community is in the midst of a philosophical shift from a
behaviorist to a constructivist framework, a move that may begin to address the growing rift …

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as
important as expertise in sports skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth …

Bunker and Thorpe first proposed Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) in 1982 as an
alternative to traditional, technique-led approaches to games teaching and learning. Despite …

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 …

The purpose of this article is to present Sport Education, Tactical Games, and Cooperative
Learning as valuable instructional models in physical education. Situated learning is used …

Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines,
established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re) produce valued …

The curriculum historian Ivor Goodson (1988) has argued that school subjects and university
disciplines are social constructs rather than naturally occurring phenomena. What he means …