Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching: International Perspectives

Richard L Light is author of Game Sense: Pedagogy for participation performance and enjoyment (2013, Routledge) and Professor of Sport Coaching in the College of Education, Health and Human Development at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is a prominent international figure working in sport pedagogy with a focus on athlete-centred approaches. He is well known for his research and writing on Game Sense over the past twenty years and has published many high impact research books on sport coaching and learning. His most recent books include: Applied Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching (2021, Routledge) and Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching (2^nd edn) (2019, Routledge), both with Stephen Harvey; Indigenous stories of success in Australian sport: Journeys to the AFL and NRL with John Evans (2018, Palgrave MacMillan); Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching: Athlete centred coaching for individual sport (2017, Routledge).

Christina Curry PhD is a former Head of Health and Physical Education Department at a secondary school in Sydney, Australia. She completed a PhD in 2013 on the implementation of TGfU at an independent secondary school in Sydney. She is at Western Sydney University, Australia where she was Director of Secondary Education and now teaches and conducts research on Leadership, Health and Physical Education, with a focus on Game Sense. She is regularly invited to conduct workshops on Game Sense and Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching and was involved in its early development.