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    Recent Publications

    1. Hopper, T., & Sanford, K. (2008). Using Poetic Representation to Support the Development of Teachers’ Knowledge. Studying Teacher Education, 4(1), 29-24.

    2. Hopper, T., Madill, L., Bratsch, C., Cameron, K., Coble, J., & Nimmon, L. (2007). Multiple voices in health, sport, recreation and physical education research: Revealing unfamiliar spaces in a polyvocal review of qualitative research genre. QUEST, 60, 214-235.

    3. Hopper, T. (2007). Teaching tennis with assessment for/as learning: A net/wall example in TGFU. The PHE, 73(3), 22-28.

    4. Mandigo, J., Butler, J., & Hopper, T. (2007). What is teaching games for understanding? A Canadian perspective. The PHE, 73(2), 14-20.

    5. Madill, L., & Hopper, T. (2007). The best of the best discourse on health: Poetic insights on how professional sport socializes a family of males into hegemonic masculinity and physical inactivity. American Journal of Men's Health, 1, (1), p. 44-59.

    6. Brown, S., & Hopper, T. (2006). Should all students in PE get an 'A'? Game performance assessment by peers as a critical component of student learning. The PHE, 72(1), 14-21.

    7. Sanford, K., & Hopper, T. F. (2006). Democracy in a globalized world: Children’s art exchange from a school/university partnership. Thinking Classroom 7 (2), p. 3-10.

    8. Hopper, T. F. and Sanford, K (2004). Collective case study of a field-based teacher education course: Breathing life into theories of learning to teach. Teacher Education Quarterly 31(2), 57-74.

    9. Bell, F. R. and Hopper, T. (2003). Space the first frontier: Tactical awareness in teaching games for understanding. PHE journal 69 (1) p. 4-7.

    10. Hopper, T. F (2003). “Four R’s for tactical awareness: Applying game performance assessment in net/wall games.” Journal of Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 14 (2), p.16-21.

    11. Hopper, T. F (2002). Teaching games for understanding: The importance of student emphasis over content emphasis. JOPERD 72 (7), p. 44-48.

    12. Rossi, T and Hopper, T.F. (2001). Using personal construct theory and narrative methods to facilitate reflexive constructions of teaching physical education. Australian Education Researcher, 28(3), 87-116

 

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