Tag: Gunn Helene Engelsrud

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.

Quest is the official journal of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE). It is the leading journal for interdisciplinary scholarship for professionals in kinesiology in higher education. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Movement, Meaning and Matter: Understanding Skillful Action in Sport by Jim Denison.

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

The main purpose of the Journal is to provide a central point for the publication and dissemination of research and scholarship on adventure and the ‘outdoors’ as media for learning as well as recreation. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Super stoked girls” - a discourse analysis of girls’ participation in freeride skiing by Lotte Malterud, Gunn Engelsrud & Vegard Vereide (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: Fostering unorganized sport to sustain adolescent participation: empirical evidence from two European countries by Victoria Rindler, Maxime Luiggi & Jean Griffet.

Annica Caldeborg’s compilation thesis Physical Contact in Physical Education: New perspectives and future directions (Örebro University) takes its point of departure in the research field of intergenerational touch in educational settings. Our reviewer is Professor Gunn Helene Engelsrud. Following a presentation of the introductory chapter and the four papers and some critical points, Professor Engelsrud concludes that the book makes a rich contribution to the PE field of knowledge.

Kroppsligt lärande kom in som ett nytt begrepp i den norska läroplanen 2020. Författarna till antologin Kroppslig læring: Perspektiver og praksiser, redigerad av Østern, Bjerke, Engelsrud & Sørum (Universitetsforlaget), utforskar begreppet utifrån olika teoretiska traditioner, ämnes- och yrkesutövningar. Med utgångspunkt i nationell och internationell forskning presenterar och diskuterar författarna flera perspektiv på, och praktiker inom, kroppsligt lärande. Boken välkomnas varmt av vår recensent Helle Winther.

In this feature article, Laura Suominen Ingulfsvann, Vegard Fusche Moe & Gunn Engelsrud summarize their recent article in Sport, Education and Society in which they study and analyze children’s movements while playng games in a school physical education context. The authors demonstrate how multiple actions and multiple dimensions of movement emerge simultaneously and how children’s own movements and the activity emerge and develop through reciprocal interactions.

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: TENSIONS AND TRACTIONS OF MOVING TOGETHER AND ALONE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION by Laura Suominen Ingulfsvann, Gunn Engelsrud & Vegard Fusche Moe.

Edited by Mikkel B. Tin, Frode Telseth, Jan Ove Tangen & Richard Giulianotti, and published by Routledge, The Nordic Model and Physical Culture examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system and physical culture, across the domains of sport, education, and public space. Our reviewer is Joe Piggin. He has been physically active in almost all Nordic countries – and he quite likes this book.