Tag: Lars Tore Ronglan

Jostein Hallén’s and Lars Tore Ronglan’s Treningslære for idrettene [Exercise theory for sports] (Fagbokforlaget) is based on the nature of the sports. Specific training must be combined with variety to stimulate the learning and training yield, and the training must contain a progression, where loads and challenges are gradually increased. Stephen Garland has had the first edition as required reading for his students, and he rather prefers that to this revised second edition. All in all, he concludes his review (in English and Swedish), it’s a very useful book.

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: The coach as gatekeeper, distributor of resources and partner for sports talents by Lotte S. Skrubbeltrang, Jesper S. Olesen & Jens Christian Nielsen.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Governance of Chinese professional football during Xi’s authoritarian era: what is changing and what remains unchanged by Yang Ma & Jinming Zheng.

Described by the publisher as an array of research project abstracts, Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy: Context and Contingency (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by Charles L. T. Corsby & Christian N. Edwards), comprises five parts and 19 chapters over a mere 187 pages. Still, our reviewer Marie Hedberg, well versed in this field, found a good overview of theories and of areas where they can be used, but she questions the generalisability of the results in the various chapters.

In this feature article, Christian Thue Bjørndal and Lars Tore Ronglann summarize their recent article from Sport, Education and Society in which they argue for a new perspetive on sports coaching, beyond traditional models and supporting a view of the coach as orchestrator. Coaching as well as athlete development will, they claim, be substatially improved with the application of a model of incremental leadership.

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: ENGAGING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT – ORCHESTRATING TALENT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INCREMENTAL LEADERSHIP by Christian Thue Bjørndal & Lars Tore Ronglan.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

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.

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 journal is mono, multi and interdisciplinary in approach. Special issue: Coaching in Brazil.