Tag: Karin Redelius

Pedagogies of Social Justice in Physical Education and Youth Sport by Shrehan Lynch, Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette & Carla Luguetti (Routledge) offers an overview of contemporary debates in social justice and equity within youth sport in and outside of school. As a sport pedagogy professor, Karin Redelius is well placed for a review. She finds the book to be thin and thick – few but dense pages, providing a rich and pedagogical introduction to the concept of social justice in the physical education context.

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: ‘The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children by Annika Rosén, Gabriella Thorell & Susanna Hedenborg (open access).

IJSEP publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. The journal’s Editors and Editorial Board encourage researchers and scholars worldwide to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Early specialisation among Swedish aesthetic performers: exploring motivation and perceptions of parental influence by Charlotte Downing, Karin Redelius & Sanna Nordin-Bates (open access).

Joe Piggin’s The Politics of Physical Activity (Routledge) uses critical analysis to challenge accepted truths about physical activity and therefore opens up a pathway to more effective, and more socially just, physical activity policy. We asked Karin Redelius for a review, and she welcomes Piggin’s redefinition of physical activity to include, besides health, values such as hierarchy, status and power. His book should be read by everyone involved in promoting physical activity.

Selection mechanisms in children and youth sports is a contested issue in Swedish sports as well as among sport studies scholars. In this article, Professor Karin Redelius of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences poses the question ”So, what is the problem choosing some children over others?”, and provides some answers based in empirical research as well as in ethical norms and legal statutes such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE SCEPTIC, THE CYNIC, THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS ADVOCATE AND THE CONSTRUCTIONIST: MALE LEADERS AND COACHES ON GENDER EQUITY IN SPORT by Matthis Kempe-Bergman, Håkan Larsson & Karin Redelius (open access).

Søren Bennike recenserar Sport Management: Del 1. Idrottens organisationer i en svensk kontext, en antologi sammanställd av Åsa Bäckström, Karin Book, Bo Carlsson & PG Fahlström (SISU Idrottsböcker). Vår recensent, som fortfarande väntar på en forskningsbaserad dansk introduktionsbok om sport management, uppskattar denna första del och ser fram emot de kommande två delarna.

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.

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.

Ett antal ledande svenska idrottsforskare har tänkt till om idrottsutveckling utifrån satsningarna Handslaget och Idrottslyftet, och deras tankemödor redovisas i Idéer för idrottsutveckling (SISU Idrottsböcker). I sin grundliga och kritiskt analytiska recension hittar Jørn Hansen mycket som är typiskt svenskt, och därtill en besvärande konflikt mellan samhällets mål med idrotten, och idrott som en mål i sig.