Driveway Tennis: An Example of Sport Teaching via Games Making in Net/Court Games

Abstract

This article describes the concept of “driveway tennis” as a construct for student games making in physical education as an option for teaching sport for understanding. We connect the notion of games making in PE with a game-based teaching approach using the example of the Game Sense approach. We demonstrate how the concept of driveway tennis, and games developed by children and young people generally, aligns well with PE curricula expectations internationally.

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Shane Pill

Shane Pill ([email protected]) is an associate professor and Rick Baldock is an academic teacher in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Mitch Hewitt is an Education Project Manager at Tennis Australia in Melbourne, Australia.