Tim Hopper
Articles published in peer reviewed journals and scholarly work divided into four sections (please note that copyrights are held by cited journals) 
 
    1. Teaching games from a TGfU perspective 
      (TGFU)
       
    2. Physical Education Teacher Socialization

       
    3. Teacher Education and Program Development

       
    4. Qualitative Research genres


 

1. Teaching games from a TGfU perspective
 

Journal:  Teaching Elementary Physical Education

Hopper, T. (2003). Four r's for tactical awareness: Applying game performance assessment in net/wall games. Journal of Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 4(2), 16-21.

PHE Journal

Hopper, T. (1998). Teaching games for understanding using progressive principles of play. CAHPERD, 27(1), 1-5.

Hopper, T., & Bell, R. (2000). A tactical framework for teaching games: Teaching strategic understanding and tactical awareness. Physical and Health Education Journal, 66(2), 14-19.

Bell, R., & Hopper, T. (2003). Space the first frontier: Tactical awareness in teaching games for understanding. Physical and Health Education Journal, 69(1), 4-7.

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.

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

Hopper, T. (2007). Teaching tennis with assessment ‘for’ and ‘as’ learning: A tgfu net/wall example. The PHE, 73(3).

 

JOPERD

Hopper, T. (2002). Teaching games for understanding: The importance of student emphasis over content emphasis. JOPERD, 73(7), 44-48.


 STRATEGIES

Hopper, T., & Bell, F. (2001). Can we play the game again? STRATEGIES, 15(1).

RUNNER Journal 1995, 32 (2), 21-22 - "CAN WE PLAY THE GAME?"


2. PE Teacher Socialization

American Journal of Men's Health

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.


Book: Issues, theories, and trends in Canadian secondary school physical education

Hopper, T., & Sanford, K. (2005). Masculinity in physical education:  Socialization of new recruits. In E. Singleton & A. Varpalotai (Eds.), Issues, theories, and trends in Canadian secondary school physical education (pp. 360-389). Toronto: The Althouse Press.


AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER

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

AVANTE

Hopper, T.F. (2001). Personal construct psychology as a reflective method in learning to teach: A story of de-centering ‘self’ as PE teacher. AVANTE 6(3), p. 46-57

JOPERD

Hopper, T.F.  (1999). The grid: Reflecting from pre-service teachers’ biographical apprenticeships of being taught.  JOPERD, 70(7) (pp. 53-59)

 

 

3. Teacher Education and Program Development

 Studying Teacher Education

Hopper, T., & Sanford, K. (2007). Developing school integrated teacher knowledge: Self-study of beginning student teachers through poetic representation. Studying Teacher Education, Under (in press).

Teacher Education Quarterly

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.

 

Alberta Teacher Association Magazine, 2001, 81(2), 8-14
Forging Ahead, Forging Links:  School/University Partnerships for Teacher Education
 
 Alberta Journal of Educational Research Vol XLVI (2), Summer 2000
Mentoring not monitoring: “Mediating” a “whole school” model in supervising pre-service teachers
 

BC Research Symposium, Government of BC, Vancouver, March 23 2002
Integrated campus and field-based teacher education: Differences in preparing student teachers

4. Qualitative Research Genres
 

QUEST

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, In press.


American Journal of Men's Health

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

Children’s Global Arts Project

Thinking Classroom

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. (English and Russian)

Booklet
Hopper, T., Sanford, K., & Cruickshanks, N. (Eds.). (2005). Children's global arts: Project guide. Victoria: Desktop Publication University of Victoria. (33 pages). (200 copies)

DVD
Hopper, T. F. (Writer) (2005). Children's global arts: Communicating the world we want [DVD]. Canada: University of Victoria.  NTSA 23 min and 34 mins. (600 sold copies)

Catalogue
Hopper, T. F. Sanford, K., Dalton, B, Armed, Z. (2004) “World We Want”:  Children’s Artwork from Iraq, Afghanistan and Canada. Desktop Publication in collaboration with the Faculty of Education University and Victoria and Troubadour Foundation: Victoria. (16 pages) – 500 copies.

Action Research

Sport, Education and Society, 2(2), pp. 163-180, 1997
Learning to respond: Supervising novice physical educators in an action research project

  RUNNER journal, 1996, 34(3), 30-32 
Introduction to the action research process. 
Part 1 of a series of papers entitled: Action research and supervising student-teachers. 

  RUNNER journal, 1997, 35(1), 22-25 
Description of an action research project: Seeking effective teaching of games. 
Part 2 of a series of papers entitled: Action research and supervising student-teachers. 

  RUNNER, 1997, 35(2), 36-40 
Results from an action research process. 
Part 3 of a series of papers entitled: Action research and supervising student-teachers. 

  RUNNER, 1997, 35(3) 29-35 
Final results from the action research process. 
Part 4 of a series of papers entitled: Action research and supervising student-teachers.