Using a Game Sense Approach to Teach Buroinjin as an Aboriginal Game to Address Social Justice in Physical Education

John Williams, Shane Pill

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Abstract

Purpose: To explore a teacher educator professional learning opportunity within the context of a taught unit of work at a government primary school in Canberra, Australia’s national capital. The unit of work focus was a traditional Australian Aboriginal game taught using a Game Sense Approach to deliver a socially just version of quality physical education. Method: A qualitative self-study methodology was adopted where the participants were Author 1 and 49 Year 5 students (aged 10–11 years). Results: Game Sense Approach was found to be an effective professional learning opportunity for Author 1, while Author 2’s knowledge about Indigenous perspectives in physical education was extended. In addition, student participants valued the taught lessons, which highlighted issues of social justice. Discussion/Conclusion: It is possible for the self-study approach described here and seemingly incompatible epistemological approaches to work together to realize a socially just version of quality physical education that can inform physical education teaching beyond this study.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)176-185
Number of pages10
JournalJOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Volume39
Issue number2
Early online dateSept 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Indigenous
  • quality
  • physical education
  • self-study
  • Self-study
  • Quality physical education

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