Seizing the Moment: Can Game Sense Further Inform Sport Teaching in Australian Physical Education?
Keywords:
Game Sense, Sport, Curriculum and PedagogyAbstract
Australia is progressively implementing a national curriculum for grades Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 10. The need to foreground sport teaching and learning in school settings as part of this curriculum development was highlighted by the recent Australian Government report, The Future of Sport in Australia (Australian Government, 2009). The Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (2010) has also indicated that student participation in quality physical education and sport will be a priority when the physical education curriculum is developed. As the Australian Government’s Future of Sport in Australia report (2009) has recommended an improved status for sport in physical education when the national physical education curriculum is developed, it is timely to consider what place a teaching approach such as Game Sense could play in achieving this outcome. I suggest a more obvious emphasis on learning through a pedagogically progressive model for sport engagement is offered by Game Sense. Therefore, the purpose of this article will be to discuss how Game Sense (Charlesworth, 1994; den Duyn, 1996), an Australian approach to sport teaching and learning in school settings similar to Teaching Games for Understanding, may contribute to an emerging national curriculum. An overview of the development of Game Sense will lead to a consideration of its merit as a model for quality sport teaching.
L’Australie est en voie d’implanter des programmes-cadres nationaux (jardin /maternelle à 10e année). Un rapport publié par le gouvernement australien en 2009 intitulé The Future of Sport in Australia souligne la nécessité d’intégrer l’enseignement et l’apprentissage du sport en milieu scolaire à ces programmes-cadres. Le Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (2010) a également indiqué que la participation des élèves à des cours d’éducation physique et sportive de qualité constitue une priorité dont il faudra nécessairement tenir compte tout au long des travaux d’élaboration des programmes-cadres d’éducation physique. Puisque le rapport du gouvernement australien recommande de rehausser le statut du sport en éduction physique dans les nouveaux programmes-cadres nationaux, il convient de réfléchir à la place d’une approche pédagogique comme celle de Game Sense dans l’atteinte de cet objectif. L’auteur est d’avis que Game Sense permet de mettre l’accent sur l’apprentissage en proposant un modèle pédagogique de participation sportive progressive., L’article examine en quoi Game Sense (Charlesworth, 1994; den Duyn, 1996), une approche australienne axée sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage du sport en milieu scolaire semblable à celle d’Apprendre et comprendre par le jeu pourrait s’intégrer aux nouveaux programmes-cadres. Un aperçu du processus d’élaboration de Game Sense aidera à faire ressortir ses mérites comme modèle d’un enseignement sportif de qualité.
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