1st Edition

Perspectives on Game-Based Coaching

Edited By Shane Pill Copyright 2021
158 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers new perspectives on game-based coaching (GBC), one of the most important practices for session design and instructional delivery in sport coaching. GBC emphasises the sport coach as educator and the development of ‘thinking players’, and this book demonstrates what that means in practice. It brings together leading and innovative thinkers and practitioners in coaching pedagogy,... Read more

Introduction: Game-based coaching

Shane Pill, Flinders University

Chapter 1 The Game Sense approach as play with purpose

Shane Pill, Flinders University, Australia and Brendan SueSee, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Chapter 2 Digital video games as a game-based coaching tool

Amy Price, St Mary’s University, UK

Chapter 3 Developing thinking players (DTP™)

Barrie Gordon, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Chapter 4 "Because we’re here lad, and nobody else. Just us": An existential-phenomenological perspective on game-based approaches

Ruan Jones, and David Piggott, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Chapter 5 The practical application of immersive game-based narratives

David Piggott and Ruan Jones, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Chapter 6 Skillfulness on country: Informal games and sports exposure

John Evans, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; Richard Light and Greg Downey

Chapter 7 Sport in physical education: Evidencing learning from employing a game-based approach in badminton

Stephen Harvey, Ohio University, USA, and Matthew Pomeroy, Merton Middle School, WI, USA

Chapter 8 Learning to be a game-changer

Adrian Turner, Bowling Green State University, USA

Chapter 9 Teaching players to think the game: Beyond decision making

Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Serge Eloi, STAPS, University of Paris-Est, France; Humberto M. Carvalho, Federal University of Sta. Catarina, Brasil

Chapter 10 Exploring pedagogical tensions: Providing practical examples for tennis coaches to navigate a shift to game-based coaching

Mitch Hewitt, Tennis Australia; and Shane Pill, Flinders University

Chapter 11 Exploring coach educators’ experiences with developing game- based coaching

Shane Pill, Flinders University, and Dave Reynolds, South Australian Football League

Chapter 12. Coaches’ use of game-based approaches (GBAs) in team sports

Donna O’Connor, Paul Larkin and Oliver Höner, Sydney University, Australia

Biography

Shane Pill is an Associate Professor in Physical Education and Sport, at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and a Life Member and Fellow of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

"When adopting any new approach to teaching/coaching, it takes time to practice, explore, and condition students to get the most from that style. If you don’t regularly employ GBC approaches in your practice then I highly recommend taking a look at this book to get up to speed with current thinking, discourse and recommendations before giving it a try for yourself." – Will Swaithes, @PEScholar