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Learning Informally to Use the "Full Version" of Teaching Games for Understanding
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O'Leary, Nick – European Physical Education Review, 2016
This paper examines an experienced teacher's employment of the teaching games for understanding (TGfU) model in a UK secondary school. The study sought to investigate how the teacher delivered TGfU and those factors that influenced his informal learning of this instructional model. Occupational socialisation was utilised to determine the factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Physical Education
Antecedents of Approach-Avoidance Achievement Goal Adoption: An Analysis of Two Physical Education Activities
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Warburton, Victoria; Spray, Christopher – European Physical Education Review, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between implicit theories of ability and competence perceptions to changes in approach-avoidance goal adoption in two specific activities in the curriculum. Four hundred and thirty pupils, aged 11-15 years, completed measures of approach-avoidance goals, perceived competence and implicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Ability, Competence
The Implementation of Models-Based Practice in Physical Education through Action Research
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Casey, Ashley; Dyson, Ben – European Physical Education Review, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of action research as a framework to investigate cooperative learning and tactical games as instructional models in physical education (PE). The teacher/researcher taught a tennis unit using a combination of Cooperative Learning and Teaching Games for Understanding to three classes of boys aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Racquet Sports, Games