77: Game Sense and Aboriginal Games to Address Social Justice w/Dr. Williams

02/04/20 • 42 min

Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education

Dr. Williams comes on to discuss how he utilized the game sense approach to teach Buroinjin, an aboriginal game from Australia. This game is fast paced, and checks the boxes for MVPA, fundamental movement skills, physical literacy etc.

You can find Dr. Williams’ faculty page here: https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/education/staff/john-williams

Buroinjin (Yulunga version rather than the ACT version. The latter involves hitting a single wicket inside a ‘D’). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLdOeatLyc

Here is the link to Yulunga (a list of several games) PDF: https://www.sportaus.gov.au/yulunga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKKUvEicI98 Beki Smith, the Olympian in the clip, does some work with us and is based here at University of Canberra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkmtUmD8Is Gorri

Full Cite: Williams, J., & Pill, S. (2019). Using a Game Sense Approach to Teach Buroinjin as an Aboriginal Game to Address Social Justice in Physical Education. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 1(aop), 1-10.

You can find Dr. Williams’ faculty page here: https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/education/staff/john-williams

Buroinjin (Yulunga version rather than the ACT version. The latter involves hitting a single wicket inside a ‘D’). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLdOeatLyc

Here is the link to Yulunga (a list of several games) PDF: https://www.sportaus.gov.au/yulunga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKKUvEicI98 Beki Smith, the Olympian in the clip, does some work with us and is based here at University of Canberra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkmtUmD8Is Gorri

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Kevin Richards (@KARRichards14) and Michael Hemphill (@mhemphill31) come on to chat about action research and learning to teach TPSR model. This is part of our monthly article club series where we discuss an article and hope that you also read it and engage in further conversation with us.

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78: Learning Tasks and Knowledge Acquisition with Dr. Yubing Wang

Dr. Wang comes on to discuss results from a part of a large NIH grant awarded at UNCG that looked across 12 schools. This paper is about high level and low level learning tasks and their relationship to cognitive engagement in physical education.

You can find the current work by Dr. Wang from his Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yubing_Wang9

You can also reach out via email: [email protected]

You can find information for the lab at UNCG at https://kin.uncg.edu/research/labs/pk-lab/

Wang, Y., Chen, A., Schweighardt, R., Zhang, T., Wells, S., & Ennis, C. (2019). The nature of learning tasks and knowledge acquisition: The role of cognitive engagement in physical education. European Physical Education Review, 25(2), 293-310.