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Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Cambourne and Turbill trace the growth, change and finally marginalisation of progressive approaches to literacy education by examining whole language philosophy in Australia from the 1960s to the present. Using a critical lens, Cambourne and Turbill describe how whole language has been positioned throughout the last nearly 50 years in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Cambourne and Turbill offer a personal history of whole language in Australia and draw connections of the educational changes occurring in their country to other western democracies. Their insights are valuable in order to examine other grass roots programs and to better understand how …
Promoting Physical Activity Through Teaching Games For Understanding In Undergraduate Teacher Education, Kim Mckeen, Paul I. Webb, Philip J. Pearson
Promoting Physical Activity Through Teaching Games For Understanding In Undergraduate Teacher Education, Kim Mckeen, Paul I. Webb, Philip J. Pearson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Physical education teachers play a significant role in influencing the likelihood that their students will engage in lifelong physical activity. However, with declining physical activity levels, particularly amongst young people, and the increased prevalence of obese and overweight children and adolescents, promoting lifelong physical activity is one of the many challenges currently facing physical education teachers. Teachers are required to engage students in quality learning opportunities to develop prescribed learning outcomes and skills, and make the experience enjoyable to enthuse young people to be physically active. This study examines whether teaching games for understanding (TGfU) and technique based pedagogy models …
Games For Understanding In Pre Service Teacher Education: A 'Game For Outcome' Approach For Enhanced Understanding Of Games, Gregory J. Forrest, Paul Webb, Phil Pearson
Games For Understanding In Pre Service Teacher Education: A 'Game For Outcome' Approach For Enhanced Understanding Of Games, Gregory J. Forrest, Paul Webb, Phil Pearson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) is a games based pedagogical model aimed at generating greater understanding of all aspects of games, while increasing physical activity levels, motivation and enjoyment in physical education lessons. Bunker and Thorpe (1982) developed the original model as an alternative to the traditional approach predominantly used in coaching and teaching in physical education (Werner, Thorpe and Bunker 1996). Awareness of its value as a pedagogical model and as a viable alternative to traditional directive approaches has been limited within the teaching and wider coaching community in Australia over the ten years since Game Sense workshops were …