Tag: Håkan Larsson

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: Arriving in the body – students’ experiences of yoga based practices (YBP) in physical education teacher education (PETE) by Anna Rosén & Håkan Larsson (open access).

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.

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: Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation? by Håkan Larsson & Isak Auran (open access)

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.

Gary Stidder’s new book, Teaching Physical Education: Contemporary Issues for Teachers, Educators and Students (Routledge) assesses the landscape of physical education today and the issues that shape it as a curriculum subject, particularly in the era of COVID-19. In his review, Håkan Larsson commends the author’s jigsaw puzzle metaphor. The interrelationship between the pieces is well if not fully developed; however, our reviewer would have liked to see further analyses of the puzzle as a whole.

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 coping strategies in physical education. A qualitative case study by Eli-Karin Sjåstad Åsebø & Helga Synnevåg Løvoll (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: ‘She thought I was her gardener’: the life history of one Latino/Hispanic American college basketball coach by Richard F. Jowers & Matthew D. Curtner-Smith.

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).

School Physical Education and Teacher Education: Collaborative Redesign for the Twenty-First Century by editors MacPhail and Lawson asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to changes in today’s fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society. In his review, Joacim Andersson finds the collaborative method for producing the book as important and promising as the outcome of those meetings of academics and practitioners.

Sports Coaching Review is an international peer-reviewed medium for the publication of articles related to sports coaching. It aspires to be a major focal point for the publication of sports coaching research throughout the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Philosophy for coaching rather than philosophy of coaching: some conceptual clarifications by Chris Hughes (open access).