An Alternative Conceptualization of the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model

Abstract

The Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility model (TPSR) is a well-established pedagogical approach that is implemented in physical education and sport-based youth development programs in the USA and internationally. This article offers an alternative model which presents the levels/goals as non-hierarchical and positions transfer of learning, not as the final level of a cumulative process, but as fundamental to the model and underpinning the other four levels/goals. The article concludes with suggestions on how teachers and coaches can implement this alternative conceptualized model into their practice.

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Barrie Gordon

Barrie Gordon ([email protected]) is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand.