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World Games Class Mauro H. André PhD Student Auburn University
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This slide summarizes the World Games Class that was taught in Auburn University during the years of 2011 and 2012. These slides were also presented in the Boston AAHPERD 2012 National Conference .
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World Games ClassMauro H. AndréPhD StudentAuburn University
The idea of a World Games Class
Fall 2010 - I started teaching the indoor/ outdoor games class. The class was designed to teach students to design their own games in each category: Tag games Target games Striking and Fielding games Net/Wall games Invasion games
One day I started talking to a student about soccer and he never heard of Péle before!! Jesus Coca-Cola Péle
Research and Adaptation
• The research sought to find games that would be appealing to the North-American Culture as well as being able to being played within the resources that we had available.
• The research focus on having games from different continents and from different categories of games.
• After finding the games that seemed as a good fit, I also had to deal with adapting
to the university environment without taking the essence of each game.
Research
World Games
• Ball Hockey – Canada• Korfball – Netherlands• Peteca – Brazil• Kho Kho – India• Cricket – England• Tchouckball – Swiss• Speedball - USA• European Handball – European• Speak Tacraw – Malaysia• Kinball – Canada• Gaelic Football - Ireland
Class Calendar
The course was divided in four periods:
Learning about the games categories
Learning a new game each week
Students’ presentations
Replay students’ favorite games
Presenting each Game
• Example: Korfball• Where is it from?• Are there formal competitions?• Who plays it?• What category of game does it fit• Video (when available) – Korfball introduction• Its original rules• “Our rules” – Adaptation• Play• Brief discussion
Students’ presentations
• Students had to present two options:• Find world games that we have not played in class
and that their classmates would not know about
• Create their own game showing how their perception of diversity have grown throughout the semester
• The format:• Presentation similar to how they were taught
• PowerPoint presentation for students who may be more interested to know more about it.
Students’ curiosity
Bo-Taoshi – video
Kabaddi - video
What students learned from this class?
• Gain in appreciation for diversity in sports and cultures• How games have an important role everywhere in
the world and they have different forms of playing
Demystify terms such as “World Series”• Learn games that may be the origin of the
games that they play• Cricket or Rounders => Baseball• Rugbi => Football
• If you have no interest in sports maybe is because you don’t know all of it • Students said they were more open to try new
games after this class
What have I learned from this class?
• I have also been able to have a broader view of games that are played around the world
• I was pleased to see how students are open to new contents after a “first round of resistance”
• Students seemed to have had a huge overall acceptance regardless of their skill level • They were all beginners in all games they played.
