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Currently a Lecturer in Secondary PE ITT and a Research Associate in Weight Stigma and Physical Activity at the University of Sunderland. I have a PhD in Sport and Exercise Sciences and PGCert in Lifelong Learning. My research focuses on PE teacher's backgrounds and perceptions of Teaching Games for Understanding using Occupational Socialisation. Research interests include game-based teaching models in PE, health & physical activity and equality, diversity and inclusion in PE/sport.
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Research has highlighted the significance of subject-specific training received during their degree programme in developing students’ confidence and competence for teaching PE (Elliot et al., 2013; Freak & Miller, 2017; Morgan & Hansen, 2008). Although primary Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses provide theoretical and practical opportunities fo...
An outline of the Teaching Games for Understanding Special Interest Group (TGfU SIG) Game-Based Approach Consensus Statement. In this article, we discuss the progression of TGfU, the background behind the formation of the consensus statement including details of the inconsistent terminology in the literature between game-based and game-centred and...
This edited book marks the 40th anniversary of Bunker and Thorpe's seminal work published in the Bulletin of Physical Education special edition, which presented the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model as a concept for games teaching and learning. In the late 1960s, physical education (PE) practitioners were starting to explore game-based...
This new book brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to provide a range of perspectives on teaching games and sport for
understanding. Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding engages undergraduate and postgraduate students in physical education and sport coaching, practicing teachers,...
The pedagogies chosen by sport teachers and coaches are a powerful way to influence athletes’ development and sense of themselves. Athlete-centred coaching has emerged as a humanistic approach developed to engender empowerment and agency within the player/athlete and enhance their performance by adopting a holistic approach to the athlete. The purp...
2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model, introduced by David Bunker and Rod Thorpe in their initial 1982 A Model for Teaching of Games in
Secondary Schools (Bulletin of Physical Education).
What is TGfU? The TGfU model was developed to address growing
concerns that pupils were leaving school knowing litt...
The findings of my undergraduate dissertation in the perceptions of secondary school teachers in the UK on Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU)
