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Kretchmar, R. Scott – Quest, 2018
The article investigates several ways in which creating, entering, and playing games requires uniquely human levels of intelligence. It examines an element of our evolutionary heritage and the possibility that games (particularly in the form of sport) were among the first elements of culture. It describes sport as a "way of knowing," a…
Descriptors: Play, Games, Intelligence, Athletics
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Johnstone, Avril; Hughes, Adrienne R.; Reilly, John J. – Scottish Educational Review, 2019
It is widely accepted that children in Scotland, as in other high-income countries, are not engaging in sufficient moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA), the consequences of which can be adverse for health and wellbeing. In this paper, it is contended that active play (a form of gross motor or total body movement in which…
Descriptors: Play, Physical Activity Level, Movement Education, Skill Development
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Storey, Brian; Butler, Joy – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: This article draws on the literature relating to game-centred approaches (GCAs), such as Teaching Games for Understanding, and dynamical systems views of motor learning to demonstrate a convergence of ideas around games as complex adaptive learning systems. This convergence is organized under the title "complexity thinking"…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Games, Teaching Methods, Motor Development
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Pope, Clive C. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2005
Certainly, the process of decision-making and problem-solving in a shifting playing environment lies at the core of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model. What is not clear is how, at the time of decision-making, players' feelings or affective factors and their subsequent influence on thinking, influence these processes. Affect has a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Models, Decision Making, Problem Solving
Stein, Julian U. – 1983
The paper describes principles and techniques for using microcomputers to enhance the motor development of learning disabled students. Among the guiding principles that the author suggests be kept foremost as educational uses of microcomputers are explored are (1) the fact that microcomputers do not think and cannot replace teachers and (2) that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Individualized Education Programs, Learning Disabilities