1st Edition

Game-based Approaches in Physical Education International Applications

Edited By Cláudio Farias, Shane Pill, Linda Griffin Copyright 2025
364 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Game-Based Approaches: Pedagogical Principles

Shane Pill, Linda Griffin and Cláudio Farias

 

2. Games Modifications and Teaching Styles in Game-Based Approaches in the Australian Curriculum – Hpe

Brendan SueSee and Shane Pill

 

3. Multidimensional assessment in Game-Based Approaches

David Gow and Cláudio Farias

 

4. Netball: Adapted Teaching Games for Understanding (England)

Ellen-Alyssa F. Gambles and Steven David Anderson

 

5. Team Handball: Implementing the Game-Based Pedagogy Approach to Navigate Scenarios of Play (the Netherlands)

Jeroen Koekoek and Wytse Walinga

 

6. Touch Football (Rugby):  Play with Purpose to Develop Game Sense (Australia)

Shane Pill and Brendan SueSee

7. Basketball: The Invasion Games Competence Model (Portugal)

Cláudio Farias

 

8. Football: A Constraints-Led Approach (Portugal)

João Ribeiro, José Guilherme, Júlio Garganta, and Daniel Barreira

 

9. Gaelic Football: Game Sense (Ireland)

Paul Kinnerk

 

10. Field Hockey: Teaching Games for Understanding (USA)

Stephen Harvey and Adrian Turner

 

11. Volleyball:  Play with Purpose to Develop Game Sense (Australia)

Shane Pill and Brendan SueSee 

 

12. Badminton: Tactical Games model – a Plural Virtual Reality approach (Japan)

Naoki Suzuki

 

13. Tennis: Complexity Thinking and Emergent Learning in a Play-Practice-Play Approach (Canada)

Tim Hopper

 

14. Pickleball: Application of Teaching Games for Understanding in Secondary Education (Spain)

David Gutiérrez and Yessica Segovia

 

15. Softball:  Teaching Games for Understanding (Argentina)

Nahuel Varela

 

16. Cricket: Game Sense (USA)

Adrian Turner

 

17. Golf:  Tactical Games Model (USA)

Linda L. Griffin

 

18. Bowling:  Tactical Games Model

Linda L. Griffin

 

19. Dance and Body Expression: A Play-based Approach (Greece)

Aspasia Dania

 

20. Gymnastics: A Student-centered Situated Learning Approach (Australia)

Carla Valério

 

21. Adventure and Outdoor Education as Play with Purpose (Australia)

Joss Rankin and Shane Pill

 

22. Pedagogy and Research for Future Game-based Approaches

Linda Griffin, Shane Pill, and Cláudio Farias

 

 

Biography

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.