Tag: Hayley Fitzgerald

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines 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.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society as well as from all professionals with theoretical and empirical interests relating to policy, curriculum, social inclusion, equity and identity, and progressive educational development in physical activity, health and sport.

The anthology Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health: A Narrative Approach, published by Routledge and edited by Fiona Dowling, Hayley Fitzgerald and Anne Flintoff, makes innovative use of narrative method to explore the issue of equity in sporting contexts. Mads Skauge has read a fine collection and found inspiration for new approaches in hs own future research. Can you ask for more?

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society as well as from all professionals with theoretical and empirical interests relating to policy, curriculum, social inclusion, equity and identity, and progressive educational development in physical activity, health and sport.

NEW BOOK REVIEW | The edited volume Sport and Physical Activity across the Life Span: Critical Perspectives by Rylee A. Dionigi & Michael Gard (Palgrave Macmillan) offers critical perspectives on the axiomatic Sport for All credo – that sport is also Good for all. Mark Brooke finds much to praise in this collection of myth-busting essays.

The purpose of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 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. We accept review papers on a broad range of physical activities.

Social och ekonomisk ojämlikhet ökar i ett globalt perspektiv, och i rättan tid utkommer en ny antologi från Routledge, Sport, Leisure and Social Justice, sammanställd av Jonathan Long, Thomas Fletcher & Beccy Watson. Ørnulf Seippel har läst den med blandade känslor, men slutintrycket är att många läsare kan hitta något nytt och framåtsyftande.

I tjugo kapitel författade av trettio forskare från den engelskspråkiga världen och tre från universitetet i Jyväskylä utreds grundligt mentorskapets alla aspekter i boken Mentoring in Physical Education and Sports Coaching, sammanställd av Fiona C. Chambers (Routledge). Bara en sak skaver, tycker vår recensent Pia Lundquist Wanneberg.

Mats Franzén har läst en antologi om den franske sociologen, antropologen och filosofen Pierre Bourdieu och hans betydelse för att förstå kropps- och rörelsekulturen. Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture (Routledge) är sammanställd av lisahunter, Wayne Smith & elke emerald.