Reconciling Approaches: Informing Game Sense Coaching Pedagogy with a Constraints-led Perspective

Shane Pill

Reconciling Approaches: Informing Game Sense Coaching Pedagogy with a Constraints-led Perspective

College of Education, Psychology and Social Work

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Abstract

This chapter will raise questions about the instructional strategies used to develop
‘decision-makers’ in team sports like Australian football (AFL). A pedagogical
analysis of the Game Sense coaching approach with an emphasis on deliberate
game design for play with purpose and the application of the constraints-led
perspective for representative learning design is undertaken. A preface of this
chapter is that invasion games like AFL are not stable contexts. Play involves a
complex interplay of collective decision-making over time arising from a series
of contests for possession of the ball. The dynamics of the game are therefore
forever evolving over the course of play from the specific interactions of the behaviour of players and officials and the playing environment (Pill, 2014).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Game Sense for Coaching and Teaching
Subtitle of host publication	International Perspectives
Editors	Richard Light, Christina Curry
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Chapter	3
Pages	25-34
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003131557
ISBN (Print)	9780367741587, 9780367674991
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

EDUCATION / Physical Education
NON-CLASSIFIABLE SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching / General
Sport coaching
games-based approaches
Game Sense
athlete-centred approaches
Teaching Games for Understanding

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