Tag: Alun Hardman

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite by Ben Williams & Mikael Quennerstedt (open access).

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural, and commercial lives, including the world of sport. Philosophy, Sport, and the Pandemic, edited by Jeffrey P. Fry and Andrew Edgar (Routledge), examines the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the intersection of COVID-19 and sport. Shawn Klein finds some really good contributions, but also chapters that are repetitive, or not sufficiently philosophical, or where the Covid relevance is tenuous. Recommendable, thus, but with qualifications.

Contributions to Andrew Adams’ and Leigh Robinson’s edited volume Who Owns Sport (Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society) deal with the complex issue of ownership in sport from multiple disciplinary angles, including philosophy, history, political science and management. Mark Brooke is our reviewer, and he deems this slim volume essential reading for sport scholars.

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. Editor’s pick from the current issue: MOUNTAINEERING, MYTH AND THE MEANING OF LIFE: PSYCHOANALYSING ALPINISM by Rufus Duits.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions, and is particularly open to essays of applied philosophy that engage with issues or practice, policy and scholarship concerning the nature and values of sports.

Physical guidance, i.e. a PE teacher or sports coach touching a child in the course of sports technique development, is a sensitive issue. In Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education: Fear, risk and moral panic, edited by Heather Piper (Routledge), fourteen scholars deal with this issue from various national perspectives. Eystein Enoksen is our reviewer.

Temanumret av Sport, Ethics and Philosophy som utkom inför OS i London 2012 finns nu som antologi, Olympic Ethics and Philosophy av redaktörerna Mike McNamee & Jim Parry (Routledge). Kutte Jönsson gläds åt bokutgivningen; värdet av de ingående texterna överskrider ett enskilt OS.

Kenneth Aggerholm has read Cesar R. Torres’ edited volume The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport, where a number of proficient scholars converge and contribute to what amounts to a truly good companion.

Kutte Jönsson Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap, Malmö högskola Alun R. Hardman & Carwyn Jones(red) The Ethics of Sports Coaching 222 sidor, hft. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2011 (Ethics and Sport) ISBN 978-0-415-55775-7 Om José Mourinho, den kontroversielle och frispråkige tränaren i Real Madrid, har det sagts att han blir mer aktiv i sin coachning i slutet av matcherna. Detta delar han i sådana fall säkert med många andra tränare. Det...