Tag: Elizabeth Abery

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: Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women by Amani Khalaf. H. Alghamdi & Ali Aldossari.

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 does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education by Erik Backman, Björn Tolgfors, Gunn Nyberg & Michael Quennerstedt (open access).

Transitions in sport can be more or less predictable or even planned; either way those are critical times in the development of athletes’ careers. This is the subject of Deborah Agnew’s edited collection Athlete Transitions into Retirement: Experiences in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support (Routledge). Christian Augustsson’s creditable review highlights several important contributions to the book and the research field, that show the complexity of the process and the need for support for athletes.