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Article: Introduction: The games approach to coaching
- Article from:
- Journal of Physical Education New Zealand
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The past seven or eight years have seen marked growth of interest in Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and its growing range of variants such as Game Sense as a means of reconceptualizing physical education teaching (Griffin, Brooker & Patton, 2005; Light & Fawns, 2003). For this issue of the Journal of Physical Education New Zealand these different approaches are referred to as 'the games approach' to coaching and teaching. The growth in interest in games approaches is clearly evident in the growing number of books published in this area (for example, see Griffin & Butler 2005; Butler, Griffin, Lombardo & Nastassi, 2003; Launder, 2001), journal publications and ...