Tag: Göran Gerdin

Social cohesion has been a buzzword among public policymakers for the past 25 years. Sport for Social Cohesion: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, edited by Karen Petry and Louis Moustakas (Routledge) looks at the role that sport can play in fostering social cohesion. Alan Bairner notes that the book should come as a relief in an increasingly incoherent world, and he finds it thought-provoking. “Like me, many will find some of it frustrating. Others, not yet mired in cynicism, may well find it inspiring.”

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).

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: The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education by Karin Sjödin, Mikael Quennerstedt & Johan Öhman (open access).

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: Physical contact in physical education, sports coaching and the preschool – a scoping review by Annica (open access). Caldeborg, Joacim Andersson & Marie Öhman

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: Didactic sensitivity to children and place: a contribution to outdoor education cultures by Jostein Rønning Sanderud, Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt & Vegard Fusche Moe.

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: Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach by Dylan Owen Blain, Martyn Standage, and Thomas Curran (open access).

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming by Jørgen Bagger Kjær & Sine Agergaard.

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: Enacting assessment for learning in the induction phase of physical education teaching by Björn Tolgfors, Mikael Quennerstedt, Erik Backman, and Gunn Nyberg0 (open access).

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: Investigating the alignment between coaches’ ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football by Joshua Hall, Ed Cope, Robert C. Townsend & Adam R. Nicholls.

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: Preservice teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge as a function of content knowledge in teaching elementary physical education content by Insook Kim.