40th Anniversary Conference Presentations

The 40th Anniversary Conference hosted on January 28th, 2023, welcomed academics, teachers, sports coaches, and students from across the globe with an interest in game-based approaches. The below webpage is a complete list of the oral and poster presentations that were included during this world-leading, inclusive, online international conference.

Featured Sections:

Keynotes and Main Conference Room
Theme: Child & Youth Sport
Theme: Teamwork, Fairness, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
Theme: Coach and teacher professional development
Theme: Game curriculum planning, implementation, and assessment

Each section contains the title of the presentation, authors and affiliations and the link to the presentation recording. For a full list of the abstracts click on the conference booklet below.

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Keynotes and Main Conference Room

Opening Keynote: TGfU 3.0: Moving Globally to Game-Based Approach

Speaker: Dr. David Gutierrez

This presentation will address the methodological richness included in the conglomerate of approaches that are grouped under the umbrella of Game-Based Approach (GBA), its origin and prospects. The situation of expansion of the GBA in different countries and the role of the TGfU SIG in the global movement that the GBA currently represents will also be exposed.

Town Hall Meeting

Key updates from our TGfU SIG Executive as part of our Townhall/Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Inaugural Len Almond Award Lecture

Speaker: Professor Linda L. Griffin

Appreciation Matters: Sharing Recognition and Valuing Something Good

In this inaugural Len Almond Lecture, I will highlight the notion of appreciation. Appreciation is the feeling of gratitude for what has been received, whether it is material objects, relationships, or experiences. Based on this definition I will outline three ways in which I believe that appreciation matters to me as on reflect upon my games story. I will also share how appreciation should matter as we look ahead to the next 40 years. The purpose of this presentation is threefold. First, I will highlight Appreciation Matters #1: Appreciation for colleagues gone but not forgotten. Second, I will reflect upon Appreciation Matters #2: Never forget where you came from. Third, I will share musings on Appreciation Matters #3: Extending the original notion of appreciation in a games-based approach. Finally, I will conclude with some takeaway messages.

Roundtable Panel

Speakers:
Dr. Karen Richardson (Bridgewater State University, USA)
Dr Tim Hopper (University of Victoria, Canada)
Dr Luis M. García López (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Closing Keynote: Keeping pace with the ever-evolving educational demands posed to physical education: expanding the pedagogical breadth of game-based approaches

Speaker: Dr. Claudio Farias (University of Porto, Portugal)

This presentation offers a brief retrospective of the evolution of the educational goals required of physical education over the past 40 years; the lifetime of TGfU. In this 'journey', we touch lightly on the various pedagogical iterations of TGfU (Game-based Approaches) that have emerged, and what their unique features have added to the spectrum of realisation of the educational goals of physical education through game-based activities. Keeping game-based learning as central building-blocks, in close articulation with the foundational idea of student-centred pedagogies, some possibilities for expanding the educational impact of GBAs are presented in the form of a learner-oriented perspective. The focus is placed on the learners' potential for social development through games as well as their increased active involvement in the experience of learning how to play and about games.

Theme: Child & Youth Sport

Exploring the relationship between the youth afterschool sports and Social and Emotional Learning

Author: Mark Urtel

The Effects of TGfU and SET Pedagogical Model on Malaysian Aborigines' Primary Student in Coaching Context

Authors: Mohamad Nor Farihan Bin Sulong & Sanmuga Nathan K. Jeganathan

Group play and emotional intelligence of preschool children

Authors: Lydia Stagianni, Dimitra Striga & Aspasia Dania

Exploration of the Perceived Quality of a Football Teaching Games for Understanding Programme by Under-12 Learners according to their Gender and Ability Level

Authors: Carmen Barquero-Ruiz & José L. Arias-Estero

Developing perceived self-efficacy during sport participation in children through a Didactic Model of the Game Actions Competence

Authors: Elkin Alberto Arias Arias, Wilder Giovanny Valencia Sanchez & Samuel Octavio Gaviria

Social Competence in Physical Education and youth sport. A review

Author: Aspasia Dania

No Stupid Questions? Using student's questions to deepen learning in games

Authors: Lim Wei Sheng & Andrew Yeo

Keeping the ball in play without keeping it: Teaching and Understanding the flow of play in ball games

Author: Jonas Holst

Teaching and learning tactical fundamentals and developing decision-making in Basketball: the importance of the offensive structure (symmetric: 5 out [1-2-2] vs asymmetric: 4 out - 1 in [2-2-1])

Authors: Melissa Marina Couto Pereira, Amândio Graça & Luísa Estriga

Theme: Teamwork, Fairness, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

Inclusive handball at PE classes: the soft ball effect

Authors: Paula Carina Calheiros Dantas, Tracy Monteiro, João Freitas, Paula Batista & Luísa Estriga

Significance and Role of Sports for Coexistence with Foreign Workers in Japan

Authors: Naoshi Morimoto, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Maho Fuchikami & Kanae Haneishi

Unlocking the potential of TGfU: Developing the whole child

Authors: Teng Tse Sheng, Kanae Haneishi, Linda Griffin, Bruce Nkala & Korey Boyd

Teaching Games for Relational Understanding: the Interactive for Life (IA4L) Project

Authors: Rebecca Lloyd & Stephen Smith

Theme: Coach and teacher professional development

Connecting the missing link through pedagogical scaffolding: how can the facilitator balance learners' progressive (instructional) decision-making responsibility and their game-play developing in game-based approaches?

Authors: Cláudio Filipe Guerreiro Farias & Isabel Maria Ribeiro Mesquita

Critical Thinking in Sport Settings Model

Authors: Samuel Jose Octavio Gaviria Alzate, Elkin Alberto Arias Arias & Wilder Geovanni Valencia Sanchez

Barriers to Teaching Games for Understanding: Teachers' Engagement and Implementation in England

Authors: Ellen-Alyssa F. Gambles, Steven D. Anderson, Sandra D. Leyland & Jonathan Ling

Using ecological dynamics in game centred tennis instruction in the USTA PTM program: Creating DrTimTennis Youtube channel

Authors: Tim Hopper, Karen Richardson & Jennifer Mead

Systematic review of sport coaches' and teachers' perceptions and application of game-based and constraints-led pedagogy: A qualitative meta-study

Authors: Sam Richardson, Simon Roberts, Colum Cronin, Allistair McRobert. Don Vinson & Chris Lee

Using Characteristics of Models-Based Instruction to Centralize Conceptions of the Tactical Games Model: Professional Teacher Learning

Authors: Heidi Bohler & Deborah Sheehy

The use of game-based approaches in Italy: primary results and future development trajectories

Author: Francesco Sgrò

Supporting PETE students to implement an alternative pedagogy on Professional Experience (practicum)

Author: Brendan Moy

Is TGfU an effective teaching model for teaching team games? Initial views of elementary school in-service PE teachers

Authors: Dionysios Papagiannopoulos, Nikolaos Digelidis & Ioannis Syrmpas

In-serive Teachers' Perceptions during a TGfU Mentoring Programme Supported by Motivational Strategies in Elementary Physical Education

Authors: María T. Morales-Belando & José L. Arias-Estero

Tactical Periodization and the Game-Based Approach to Coaching Soccer/Football

Authors: Ajit Korgaokar & Stuart Currie

Implementing a Game-Based Approach (GBA) Methods Course for a United States Physical Education Teacher Education Program

Authors: Stuart Currie & Ajit Korgaokar

Theme: Game curriculum planning, implementation, and assessment

The challenge of improving students' game play participation in a handball teaching unit

Authors: António Sérgio Mota Teixeira Miranda, Fernando Manuel Paulo Cunha, Maria Luisa Dias Estriga, Daniel Castro Vieira & Paula Maria Fazendeiro Batista

Game-based approaches as context of Social and Emotional Learning

Authors: Katifori Eirini, Chatzara Eleni & Aspasia Dania

A pilot experience teaching through Teaching Games for Understanding and Gamification in Secondary Physical Education

Authors: Álvaro Alarte-Hernández, María T. Morales-Belando & José L. Arias-Estero

Does the grouping of students in persistent heterogeneous or homogenous learning teams affect student game-play according to their ability level? A study with preservice teachers in teaching badminton

Authors: Beatriz Isabel Vilaça Simões, Cláudio Filipe Guerreiro Farias, Yessica Segovia, Eugénio Paiva Pereira Ribeiro, Joaquim José Ribeiro Teixeira, Sara Sofia Lopes Guimarães & Isabel Maria Ribeiro Mesquita

A report on Game Unit in which Students Create Play While Thinking For Lower elementary school students

Author: Rena Tanabe

Reconciling Approaches Using The Spectrum of Teaching Styles to highlight the decisions of students during guided discovery episodes

Authors: Brendan SueSee & Shane Pill

The effects of TGfU, NP and Skilled-based approaches in badminton learning process among Malaysian secondary school students

Author: Sanmuga Nathan

Learning Tactics in Children's Football: Didactic Model of the Game Action Competences

Authors: Wilder Geovanny Valencia Sanchez, Samuel Octavio Gaviria Alzate & Elkin Alberto Arias Arias

Game-Based Approach and Creativity in Primary Physical Education

Author: Simona Nicolosi

An exploration of high-performance team sport coaches practice activities across a season: A mixed methods case study approach

Authors: Niall O’Mahony, Philip E. Kearney, Ian Sherwin & Mark Lyons

A Survey of New York State Physical Educators Use of Game-Based Approaches in K-12 Physical Education

Authors: Clancy Seymour, Mark Garrison, Stephen Harvey & Jeffrey Lindauer

Differences between Performance and Learning after a Teaching Games for Understanding Unit in Elementary Physical Education

Authors: José L. Arias-Estero & María T. Morales-Belando

Design questionnaires for assessing declarative tactical knowledge in youth football and tennis players

Authors: Michele Barca, Patrizia Tortella, Francesco Sgrò & Mario Lipoma

A preliminary validity result of a questionnaire developed to assess the level of tactical knowledge in volleyball youth players

Authors: Agata Diana Ferraloro, Mario Lipoma, Francesco Sgrò & Antonella Maria Vittoria Quinto

A Tactical Games Model lesson plan to teach net games skills in elementary school

Authors: Antonella Quinto, Diana Ferraloro, Mario Lipoma & Francesco Sgrò

The 6-step TGfU model viewed through the Spectrum Lens

Authors: Brendan SueSee & Shane Pill

How different football game formats affect the physical demands of high school students in physical education teaching

Authors: Luís Miguel Gomes da Silva Peixoto, João Miguel Caetano Freitas & Maria Luísa Dias Estriga

Pre-service teachers' influences, beliefs and barriers to implementing Teaching Games for Understanding in England

Authors: Ellen-Alyssa F. Gambles, Steven D. Anderson, Sandra D. Leyland & Jonathan Ling

Adopting TGfU Principles into Adolescent High Performance Soccer- An Explorative Study

Authors: Stefan Konig & Can Ünal

Practical recommendations in order to apply Game-Based Approaches with students with intellectual disabilities

Authors: Yessica Segovia & Jorge Abellán

Transmission and transformation of ball games as pedaogogic discourse within physical education teacher education

Author: Jan Mustell