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TGfU Name Change Project

This 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. 

Purpose

We 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:
  • Review the current nomenclature in the field
  • Generate a table of possible titles and rationale
  • Consult with key stakeholders
  • Make a recommendation about the most appropriate name for SIG

This project is also intended to enable the SIG to:
  • Have a title that those practitioners and scholars working in the field of teaching and coaching games can most readily identify with.
  • Maximise participation and membership to the SIG
  • Enhances the mission and values of the SIG.

Background

In 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 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.

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.

  • Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) (Bunker, Thorpe and Almond, 1982)
  • Tactical Games Approach (Mitchell, Oslin, & Griffin, 1994, 2006)
  • Game Sense (Den Duyn, 1997; Light, 2004)
  • Tactical Games Model (Metzler, 2000)
  • Play Practice (Launder and Piltz, 2001 and 2013)
  • Tactical-decision Learning Model (Gréhaigne, Wallian, & Godbout, 2005)
  • Ball-School Concept (Memmert & Roth, 2007)
  • Invasion Games Competence Model (Tallir, Lenior, Valcke, Musch, 2007)
  • Games Concept Approach (McNeill et al., 2009)

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 Notes

13/12/2014
  • A discussion document has been developed with input from a variety of people from both the Executive and IAB.  This document can be accessed from:
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/16W_QrERhrH2HIJwlYRo3P1TCAvLqJ3kZYS6-FtbPn-o/edit
  • Included in this is a list of possible names that can be circulated for discussion
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1otShlHcP7K5RJsYUpzv62zE3k9wTnXuHFcqMT839jRY/edit

  • The next step is to consult with the broader membership to assess their opinions on a possible name change.

​9/10/2015
  • IAB makes following suggestion to Exec  on how best to move project ahead   

  1. Governance members review names and add comments to finalize rationale - This has been done, been available for 6 months.
  2. Comments on form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1otShlHcP7K5RJsYUpzv62zE3k9wTnXuHFcqMT839jRY/edit
  3. Send out list of five possible names including TGfU to members who can vote on two names they prefer.
  4. Select two names to vote upon in 2016.
  5. Announce any name change at International Conference.
  • LA to discuss this with TH and bring it back to the Executive for November meeting.

6/11/2015
  • LA provides update to Exec:
  • Both Tim and I (Len A) will produce a paper for the next Newsletter outlining the need for a change, to be inclusive and to encompass a broad base of interests.  We will outline a vision for the SIG, identify three titles and outline a timeline for decisions.   I feel that both Tim and I have a good insight into what needs to be done.  I will also do a piece for the Newsletter

10/12/2015
  • AO & TH meet to discuss timelines for making a final decision. These to be put to December meeting of Exec.

    Name Change Project Comments

    The TGfU SIG Executive welcome any comments or feedback in relation to this name change project. 
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