Game-based Approaches in Physical Education

Game-Based Approaches in Physical Education: International Applications presents 22 chapters, including 18 teaching units to be applied in physical education or youth sport, divided into 4 categories of games and an additional category of performance activities.

This book combines the pedagogical, academic, and practical knowledge of a team of experts in the global game-based approaches community. Sharing some common universal principles about game-based physical education teaching, this book innovates by offering unique cultural perspectives and diversity in the pedagogical interpretations made in different continents and countries of the original Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach. Each unit includes a framework of tactical content of increasing complexity, a teaching unit outline (between 9 and 20 lessons), and the respective game-based activities and learning tasks.

By covering the key themes in contemporary sports pedagogy and physical education, including lesson content, tactical questioning, task design, assessment, and game modifications, this book is essential reading both for all prospective and inservice physical education teachers and sports coaches working with children and youth and their teacher and coach educators.

Cláudio Farias (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy at the Faculty of Sport University of Porto (Centre for Research, Education, Intervention and Innovation in Sport [CIFI2D]).

Shane Pill (Ph.D.) is a Professor in Education at Flinders University, Australia. He is the Australian representative on the International Advisory Board of the Teaching Games for Understanding Special Interest Group (TGfU-SIG) and a fellow of the TGfU-SIG Executive. His books include Perspectives on Athlete Centred Coaching (2018), The Spectrum of Teaching Styles in Physical Education (2020), Perspectives on Game-Based Coaching (2021), The Spectrum of Sport Coaching Styles (2022), and Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding (2023).

Linda Griffin (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Sport Pedagogy in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Linda has received several awards and honors such as 2023 Len Almond Lecture Award, 2015 UMass Amherst Exceptional Merit Honor, 2012 Frostburg State University Wellner Scholar, AERA SIG: Research on Teaching and Learning in Physical Education, Exemplar Paper Award 2008, and National Association of Sport and Physical Education, Council on Professional Preparation in Physical Education, Physical Education Teacher Education Honor Award, 2005.