Tag: Michael Gard

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: Friendly fields: the promissory joy of playing soccer outdoors by Howard Prosser.

Into their seventh month of pandemic isolation, lisahunter delivers a stimulating review of Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to make a difference (Routledge), a collected volume edited by Richard Pringle, Håkan Larsson & Göran Gerdin, and featuring a notable clutch of contributors. ’Critical’ is the dominating perspective in the anthology, and in the review lisahunter presents its own critical analysis of the criticality of the ’Criticals’.

The Journal of Amateur Sport (JAS) provides scholars with an outlet in which to share scholarship relevant to the amateur sports realm. We define amateur sport as those who participate and govern at the youth, recreational, community, international, and intercollegiate level.

European Physical Education Review is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research, bringing together contributions from a wide range of disciplines across the natural and social sciences and humanities.

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.

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.

Annals of Leisure Research publishes refereed articles which promote the development of research and scholarship in leisure studies. Annals is aimed at an international readership and seeks theoretical or applied articles which cover any topic within the broad area of leisure studies.

Anna Maria Hellborg har läst en ny antologi om idrott och maskulinitet, Embodied Masculinities in Global Sport, sammanställd av Jorge Knijnik och Daryl Adair (FiT Publishing). Redaktörerna har lämnat fotboll, USA och England därhän; istället är det andra länder och sporter som får exemplifiera deras tes om den hegemoniska maskuliniteten.

Gisela Nyberg Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap, Karolinska Institutet Rebecca E. Lee, Kristen M. McAlexander & Jorge A. Banda Reversing the Obesogenic Environment 233 sidor, hft., ill. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics 2011 (Physical Activity Intervention Series) ISBN 978-0-7360-7899-3 Michael Gard The End of the Obesity Epidemic 193 sidor, hft. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2011 ISBN 978-0-415-48988-1 Jag ska här recensera två böcker som handlar om övervikt och fetma, Reversing the Obesogenic Environment av Rebecca Lee, Kristen McAlexander och Jorge Banda,...