ABSTRACT

Game-based approaches improve team performance by developing tactical knowledge, decision-making, awareness and the ability to adapt at non-conscious and conscious levels of cognition in match conditions across a range of team sports. They generate positive experiences of practice sessions for athletes and enable the transfer of learning from practice to competition instead of training to train. A number of teaching/coaching approaches specifically focus on promoting positive development among young people through sport and other physical activities, including positive youth development sport education and teaching personal and social responsibility. The pedagogical features of Game Sense encourage positive learning experiences, with Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching focusing on maximizing this positive learning through the appropriation of Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory and sense of coherence model and the application of Positive Psychology to bolster positive experiences of learning among athletes of any age and at any level.