Tag: physical culture

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: Exploring students experiences of secondary school Physical Education in England by Kirsty Hemingway, Joanne Butt, Christopher Spray, Peter Olusoga & Liane Beretta De Azevedo (open access).

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 pupils’ playfulness creates possibilities for pleasure and learning in physical education by Iselin Aartun, Karen Lambert & Kristin Walseth (open access).

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).

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: What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review by Salvador Baena-Morales & Alberto Ferriz-Valero

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: Learning to cycle: a constraint-led intervention programme using different cycling task constraints by Cristiana Mercê, Keith Davids, David Catela, Marco Branco, Vanda Correia & Rita Cordovil (open access).

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).

The Stark Center defines physical culture as “the various activities people have employed over the centuries to strengthen their bodies, enhance their physiques, increase their endurance, improve their health, fight against aging, and become better athletes”. Our focus remains on historical and other humanities-based approaches to the study of exercise, strength, sport training, strength athletes, competitive lifting, the healthful benefits of exercise, and all other aspects of what we call “physical culture” across the millennia.

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.

Given the popularity of sport, it is clear to see why strongman political leaders (e.g., Bolsonaro, Orbán, or Trump), who harken to hegemonic masculine forms, have looked to the sporting realm as a means of augmenting their popular appeal. However, beyond sport, in the broader realm of physical culture - encompassing traditional games, fitness and calisthenics, dance forms, and recreational activities - little has been explored or scrutinized.

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).