Tag: SSSF

In this peer reviewed article by Kari Fasting, Mari Kristin Sisjord and Trond Svela Sand, elite-level coaches’ are studied, with the aim to get an overview of the gender distribution of Norwegian national team coaches with respect to different demographic variables, such as age, education and marital status. It turns out that only 14% of the elite-level coaches are women.

In a new peer reviewed article in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Jonny Hjelm presents his penetrating study of Swedish sports scholarship within social sciences and the humanities, 1970–2010. Based on analyses of 77 doctoral theses, Hjelm concludes that the general distaste for competitive sports that is evident, is rooted in leftist anti-market sentiments as well as a glorification of the virtue of play and games.

In this new article for Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Sven Junghagen, Simon D. Besjakov and Anders A. Lund show in what way football clubs in smaller leagues with limited capacity utilisation can increase their per-game revenue by increasing the attendance frequency.

In a new peer review article in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Ulrik Wagner critically examines how scientific contributions are validated and evaluated, claiming that the interplay between national performance indicators, multiple stakeholders and certain journals’ editorial practices within the sport sciences undermine peer reviewing as our core procedure to ensure high academic quality standards.

New peer review article published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. The authors, Harald Dolles, Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Oskar Solenes and Solveig Straume, conclude that a football club functions as a frequent reminder of the hometown for people that have migrated, and its activities serve as a foundation for conversations that might support migrators to build up social capital at their new location.

The concept of orthorexia first appeared in the late 90s and referred to a fixation on eating healthy food. Lately, however, the health fixation has been extended to include unhealthy exercise. Orthorexia is not yet a recognized diagnosis, and this article argues that when it is, it should include the eating disorder as well as the exercise disorder.

Sport Education is proposed as an instructional model addressing concerns regarding traditional approaches to teaching physical education. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the reflective accounts of cohort of in-service physical education teachers after learning about, and teaching, a season of Sport Education.

This new peer reviewed article by Magnus Kilger and Mats Börjesson analyzes talent selection within Swedish sports. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the process of legitimacy is produced in the case of children and adolescents.

This article is published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum (SSSF), a refereed, online and open access, scholarly journal for the study of sports in society, with a multi-disciplinary approach. SSSF is published by Malmö University as a companion to idrottsforum.org.

This article deals with the way in which various views of performance are used in talking about youth competitive swimming during adolescence. Making use of interviews with competitive youth swimmers and coaches, the study explores the interpretative repertoires used to discuss performance, and how these repertoires influence gender construction.