Tag: Joacim Andersson

Mindfulness has become a large and recognized field within sports research driven by the sports psychology perspective. It is also growing exponentially; currently, there are around 450 mindfulness studies in the field of sports science with a focus on social science and the humanities. Joacim Andersson, associate professor in sports science at the Maömö Department of Sport Sciences, has just compiled a knowledge overview of the state of research around mindfulness in the world of sports.

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.

Antologin Fagdidaktik i idræt (Frydenlund), redigerad av Kasper Lasthein Madsen & Annemari Munk Svendsen, presenterar utvalda didaktiska ansatser som kan bana väg för en idrottsundervisning med kvalitet och kontinuitet genom grundskola och gymnasium. Joacim Andersson har läst boken med stort intresse, och hans kunniga recension problematiserar delar av innehållet och pekar på vissa brister, men understryker samtidigt bokens många positiva inspel.

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

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.

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The impact of sport specialisation on the lived experience and development of collegiate softball players by Matt Moore & Mariah Sullivan.

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.

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 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.