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Play with Purpose: inquiry strategies to use with players to develop thinking or make thinking visible

Learning Through Sport

A GBA for games and sport teaching in physical education and sport coaching had been described often as 'discovery' or 'guided discovery' teaching. In this event, the teacher or coach is working with player thinking 'beyond' or 'outside' of what the player already knows, understands and can do.

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Including Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

McBride (1999) suggested that if PE teachers deliberately structure lessons with the need for critical thinking and creativity in mind, students will learn the cognitive skills and the dispositions that support them will be reinforced.