Throwing and catching as relational skills in game play: situated learning in a modified game unit.

By A. MacPhail, D. Kirk, L. Griffin. 2008

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Models-based practice: great white hope or white elephant? (2014, background): “This degree of CPD is seen as greatly enhancing teachers’ normal experiences of professional learning in physical education (MacPhail et al. 2008) as it requires a significant investment of time and energy to learn how to use MBP (Sinelnikov 2009).”
Cooperative learning and dyadic interactions: two modes of knowledge construction in socio-constructivist settings for team-sport teaching (2015, methodology): “For Vygotsky (1987), language is a tool or an instrument for the thought and development of cognitive operations.”
Improving ‘at-action’ decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach (2014, background): “…the larger concerns of the game such as pre-agreed strategy and the importance of the game in the competition (decisional background) as well as wider, social contexts that include the social-interactive and institutional-cultural aspects of game play (see, for example, MacPhail et al., 2008).”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, background): “MacPhail, Kirk, and Griffin (2008), building on the work of Nevett, Rovegno, Babiarz, and McCaughtry (2001), studied learning associated with throwing catchable passes in territorial games (games with a goal at each end of the field or court; attackers invade the defenders’ territory to score;…”