Tag: physical culture
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).
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 29, 2024, 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: Physical education podcasts: a thriving community of practice or a one-way mode of communication? by Scott McNamara, Victoria Larocca & Rebecca Bassett-Gunter.
Call for Papers | “The history of sport in the Balkans: From Gymnastic-based movements to Physical Culture and Sport”, Special Issue of The International Journal of the History of...
The International Journal of the History of Sport welcomes submissions of up to 8000 words that discuss and examine the history of sport in the Balkans from the emergence of Sokol movements to the introduction of the concept of physical culture throughout self-management socialism. Special issue editor in Marko Begovoc.
Call for Chapters | Body Cultures: Physicality, Space, and Moving Bodies | Call ends July 31, 2024
Anchored in the realms of sport and fitness, this collection will delve into the intricate choreographies of movement, performance, and physical breakdowns. Contributors shall examine the body not merely as a biological entity, but as a vessel of cultural, artistic, and communicative expressions. Drawing references from theatre and the arts, as well as sport and popular culture, an essay will illuminate the performative dimensions of athleticism, juxtaposing them with theatrical embodiments.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 2
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: Perseverance in motor tasks: the impact of different types of positive feedback by An De Meester, Julie Galle, Bart Soenens & Leen Haerens.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 1
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: Sensitivity, shared purpose, and learning community: a case study of a Brazilian sport program with children and young people from socially vulnerable backgrounds by Eduardo Roberto Uhle, Bartira Pereira Palma, Carla Luguetti & Larissa Rafaela Galatti.
Call for Papers | “Exercise: Practices of Bodies, Minds, and Knowing”, German Studies Association Seminar | Atlanta, GA, September 26–29, 2024. Call ends February 23, 2024
What is exercise? What are its origins, functions, and ramifications? This seminar asks how exercise has shaped practices of body and mind in the German-speaking world, whether in the context of sports, dance, military training, labor, spiritual/ethical cultivation, philosophical meditation, or aesthetics. We invite contributions from literary studies, history, sport studies, dance studies, art history, gender studies, philosophy, critical ethnic and race studies, film studies and other pertinent fields. We especially welcome transnational interventions.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 28, 2023, Issue 5
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: A longitudinal examination of the influence of winning or losing with motivational climate as a mediator on enjoyment, perceived competence, and intention to be physically active in youth basketball by María T. Morales-Belando, Jean Côté & José L. Arias-Estero.
Call for Papers | Physical Cultures of the Body IV, a Free, Hybrid Conference | The University of Texas at Austin, January 11 (virtual) & 12 (in-person), 2024. Call...
We welcome papers 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. Our hope is that many of you will choose to present in person this year and perhaps also make time to use the Stark’s resources during a visit to Austin. By meeting together we can, hopefully, learn more about each other, discuss our work, create new collaborations, and help the field of Physical Culture Studies continue to grow.
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 28, 2023, 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: 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).













