Teaching Games in Physical Education: Towards a pedagogical model

The purpose of this paper is to propose a pedagogical model for teaching games in school physical education as a solution to the original problem Bunker and Thorpe were seeking to solve, which I will argue remains current today. In pursuit of this purpose, I elaborate on the nature of the problem of games teaching as Bunker and Thorpe understood it, and thus the nature of the solution they offered in the form of Teaching Games for Understanding.