Tag: Magnus Ferry

Sedan historikern Jan Lindroth disputerade med sin avhandling om idrotten som folkrörelse 1974 har det gått ett halvt sekel, och således firar svensk idrottsforskning sitt femtioårsjubileum 2024. Under perioden har idrottsvetenskap vuxit fram som ett nytt utbildnings-, forsknings- och forskarutbildningsämne. Idag finns det idrottsvetenskapliga institutioner eller motsvarande vid tio lärosäten, och fem av dem har forskarutbildning. Forskningsämnena, som från början var pedagogik, historia och psykologi, omfattar idag över trettio olika ämnesdiscipliner.

Talent identification is about the ability to recognise potential talents in different contexts, and this has become increasingly important over the past few years since it is considered a crucial parameter for success in sport. In his review of Niels Nygaard Rossing’s and Christian Meedom Wrang’s book Talent Identification: (Un)conscious gold diggers, goldsmiths and gold creators (Aalborg University Press), Magnus Ferry finds the book to be easy yet elaborate, as well as inspirational, and thus highly recommendable.

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: Professional networks, collegial support, and school leaders: How physical education teachers manage reality shock, marginalization, and isolation in a decentralized school system by Magnus Ferry and Runa Westerlund (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Well, what was the message you got?’: the discursive power of Naomi Osaka and her peaceful protest at the 2020 U.S. Open by Emma Calow.

CSHPE has a particular focus on social science research-based articles that make reference to other critical work in the field and/or discuss particular issues of practice-focused research within the specific professional field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: (Non-)Diversity and cultural (re)production in physical education teacher education: a Swedish example by Håkan Larsson, Torun Mattsson & Magnus Ferry (open access).

Magnus Ferry is a Senior Lecturer and Associate professor at the Department of Education at Umeå university. He has a PhD in Sport Science with a dissertation focusing on the development of School Sports in Sweden, and the pupils and teachers involved. In his research he is interested in the socialisation processes through which individuals are formed, and the changes in social, cultural, and historical circumstances in which these processes are embedded.

The purpose of JTPE is to communicate national and international research and stimulate discussion, study, and critique of teaching, teacher education, and curriculum as these fields relate to physical activity in schools, communities, higher education, and sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE MAN BEHIND THE TEACHING PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MODEL: A LIFE HISTORY OF DON HELLISON by Jenn M. Jacobs and Thomas Templin.

Med en skolreform 2013 infördes särskilda idrottsklasser i den danska folkeskolen, och denna förändring blev föremål för omfattande forskning som nu avrapporteras i boken Talentudvikling og elitesport i skolen (Aarhus Universitetsforlag) av Jens Christian Nielsen och Jesper Stilling Olesen. Vi gav boken till Umeå-forskaren Magnus Ferry som läst den med stort intresse och funnit i den ny och värdefull kunskap om skola och idrott i kombination.

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.

Jesper Fundberg söker lösningen på idrottens jämställdhetsproblem i två rapporter från Centrum för idrottsforskning, Statens stöd till idrotten: Uppföljning 2017 och Resurser, representation och ”riktig” idrott: Om jämställdhet inom idrotten, men han får aldrig riktigt klart för sig vilket problem som författarna tänker att jämställdhet ska lösa – eller ens vad som avses med jämställdhet.