Tag: Dean Barker
European Physical Education Review, Vol. 31, 2025, No. 4
EPER is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Meaningful physical education: Towards an embodied pedagogy by Esben Stilund Volshøj, Kenneth Aggerholm, Stephanie Beni and Kasper Lasthein Madsen.
European Physical Education Review, Vol. 31, 2025, No. 3
EPER is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Re-imagining performance spaces and locations in ecological dynamics: Implications for pedagogical practices in physical education by Martyn Rothwell, Øyvind Bjerke, Ben William Strafford, Tim Robinson, Craig Haslingden, Martina Navarro and Keith Davids (open access).
Sport, Education and Society, Volume 30, 2025 Issue 7
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: From Coubertin’s Olympism to neoliberal sports spectacle: narratives of Brazilian Olympic athletes by Carolina Fernandes da Silva, Bruna Letícia de Borba, Liziane Nathália Vicenzi & Patrícia Luiza Bremer Boaventura.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 30, 2025, Issue 3
The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices by B. Tolgfors, D. Barker, G. Nyberg & H. Larsson (open access).
European Physical Education Review, Vol. 31, 2025, No. 1
EPER is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education by Håkan Larsson, Dean Barker, Jan-Eric Ekberg, Christopher Engdahl, Anders Frisk, and Gunn Nyberg (open access).
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 6
The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education by J. Mustell, S. Geidne & D. Barker (open access).
European Physical Education Review, Vol. 30, 2024, No. 3
EPER is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review by Dylan Scanlon, Jenna Lorusso, and Melody Viczko (open access).
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 4
The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Teachers’ actor-oriented transfer of movement pedagogy knowledge in physical education by H. Bergentoft, C. Annerstedt, D. Barker & M. Holmqvist )open access).
Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Vol. 6, 2024 | Open Access
The purpose of the Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology is to collect and disseminate knowledge and experiences between researchers, practitioners, athletes, coaches and others with interest for sport psychology. .It is an open access journal published yearly. The Forum Editor’s choice from the current issue: Investigating the relationship between achievement motive and performance in elite-level football goalkeepers by Esben Elholm Madsen, Tina Hansen, Dadi Rafnsson, Peter Krustrup, Carsten Hvid Larsen, Anne-Marie Elbe.
An impressive collection, developed in the Swedish PE research environment
Håkan Larsson’s edited collection Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education (Routledge) provides a societal and epistemological background for new approaches in movement theory and practice. Gunn Helene Engelsrud’s review offers an insightful and elucidative reading, and critical points notwithstanding she concludes her review by asserting that the qualified selection of research makes the book rich and well worth studying and investigating.













