In this lecture students will be presented with the philosophical underpinnings of sport. We will look at concepts from Jungian and Lingian gymnastic philosophies through the ages to the fitness and wellness movement of today. We will examine issues of sport including competition and develop an understanding about the different purposes of understanding sport culture. Finally students will be presented with a conceptualisation of sport aesthetics.

In this episode students will be introduced to the pedagogical approaches to games centred teaching (TgFU, Games Sense and Play Practice). Students will become familiar with differing roles of the teacher and student in this model and understand the pedagogical principles associated with GCA. Students will also be presented with some working models (Rinks approaches to GCA) useful for physical education environments.

In this episode, students will be introduced to the concepts of play, including how play is defined by Caillois, examine shallow and deep play through Kretchmar's conceptualisation, before being presented with the concepts of Play Practice, Games Sense and Teaching Games for Understanding.

In this episode students are introduced to the concepts of thematic approaches to skill teaching (pedagogy), concepts of skill themes and the movement concepts. In this lecture we also examine the process of setting up and planning for a class where skill learning is content in the session.

In this episode I discuss fundamental motor skill instruction for coaching and teaching. Students are introduced to the concepts of implications for practice research and pedagogical aspects to consider when setting up coaching environments for FMS instruction.

In this lecture we will introduce the concepts of fundamental motor skills, the phases of motor development, motor development period and examine the underlying assumptions that exist between FMS and SSS and physical activity participation.

Lecture 2 on Socio-cultural understanding in human movement

This is lecture 1 from the unit EDF1611 Introduction to SOR for 2012.