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TGfU Name Change ProjectThis page is for the TGfU SIG Governance members, providing information regarding the TGfU name change project. Provided is the purpose of the project, the background, rationale and a survey to vote on the preferred name change.
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PurposeWe are seeking a title for the SIG that helps the advancement of teaching and coaching games. We need a title that is all encompassing and one that practitioners and researchers can relate to and feel the need to be part of.
This project is intended to:
This project is also intended to enable the SIG to:
BackgroundIn the spirit of wanting to be an inclusive organisation and represent the interests of all practitioners and researchers it would appear timely to review the name of the Special Interest Group (SIG).
Since the early 1980’s when Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) was developed, an array of innovative approaches to teaching/coaching games have gained credibility in the scholarly literature. These approaches are unified around the premise that the best way to learn a game is through a series of game forms that retain the essence of a game but have been modified to reduce the demands of the complex game and to enable the player to grasp the key elements of playing it. TGfU is perceived as one way of teaching therefore to ensure that we are all part of one inclusive family, a change in the name of the SIG is an important step forward. It is important that we do not replace TGfU with another approach because this would not answer our needs. We need to consider an overarching title that enables everyone interested in developing teaching or coaching together with researchers in either field to come together in one international organisation. Rationale for considering a name change to the TGfU SIGSince the early 1980’s when Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) was developed, an array of innovative approaches to teaching/coaching games have gained credibility in the scholarly literature. These approaches are unified around the premise that the best way to learn a game is through a series of game forms that retain the essence of a game but have been modified to reduce the demands of the complex game and to enable the player to grasp the key elements of playing it.
The following game-based approaches illustrate the wealth of ideas that have gone into rethinking how we teach games. However, this is not a finite list and there may well be other titles that deserve to be named.
Nevertheless, these game-based models represent an approach that has been developed to accommodate cultural traditions, features of games that have not received sufficient attention or simply a different way of thinking about pedagogy. We need to recognise that there is a richness of thinking and practice throughout the world that we can learn from. It is in this spirit that the TGfU Special Interest Group Executive believes that we need to consider carefully how we can become an inclusive organisation and represent the interests of all practitioners and researchers. For many people this means that we need to consider the name of the Special Interest Group (SIG). TGfU is perceived as one way of teaching therefore to ensure that we are all part of one inclusive family, a change in the name of the SIG is an important step forward. It is important that we do not replace TGfU with another approach because this would not answer our needs. We need to consider an overarching title that enables everyone interested in developing teaching or coaching together with researchers in either field to come together in one international organisation. What we are seeking is a title for the SIG for the advancement of teaching and coaching games. We need a title that is all encompassing and one that practitioners and researchers can relate to and feel the need to be part of. As an executive we have a compiled a list of names which over time we have reduced the list below. In the first instance we are asking all members of the SIG IAB board to consider this list and develop it further or propose an alternative name. In particular please consider how the name might translate into other languages. The final list created will then be circulated to registered members of the SIG to rank in order to select three names. These names will then be circulated prior to the next TGfU annual general meeting in 2016 to either propose a new name or to retain the current name. Deadline for AIB to offer input November 30. The following link provides examples of possible names. Please edit and/or add to this list. LINK TO SUGGEST NAMES FOR TGfU SIG We appreciate your consideration in this matter The TGfU executive. Len Almond Heidi Bohler Stephen Harvey Tim Hopper Alan Ovens Kelly Parry Progress Notes13/12/2014
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10/12/2015
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Naming the AIESEP TGfU SIGTable for naming the SIG - Community Document
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