Tag: Rachel Sandford

The edited collection Research with Children and Young People in Physical Education and Youth Sport (Routledge) presents a new framework for researchers in the field of physical education and youth sport, showcasing how the CREATE Principles for Research Design can facilitate meaningful research. Karin Redelius, well versed in the field of youth sports research, concludes that while the book is not the first one addressing children and research, its focus on Physical Education and youth sport research is a novel approach. and she expects to return to it many times.

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: Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite by Ben Williams & Mikael Quennerstedt (open access).

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: Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review by Dylan Scanlon, Jenna Lorusso, and Melody Viczko (open access).

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: Moving online in physical education teacher education by Gunn Nyberg, Erik Backman & Richard Tinning (open access).

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: Fostering unorganized sport to sustain adolescent participation: empirical evidence from two European countries by Victoria Rindler, Maxime Luiggi & Jean Griffet.

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: Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach by Dylan Owen Blain, Martyn Standage, and Thomas Curran (open access).

The purpose of PESP 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The importance of satisfying children’s basic psychological needs in primary school physical education for PE-motivation, and its relations with fundamental motor and PE-related skills by A.G.M. de Bruijn, R. Mombarg & A.C. Timmermans.

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.

Through a social justice and equity lens, Families, Sport, Leisure and Social Justice: From Protest to Progress edited by Dawn E. Trussell & Ruth Jeanes (Routledge) examines how families, sport, and leisure connect to broader social issues in society. We asked Solveig Straume, Norwegian sociologist for a review. She finds the collection an interesting read and a timely scholarly contribution, however with an unfortunate predominance of Global North perspectives.

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: Yes, I have a disability. Does it prevent me from being a PE teacher? A qualitative approach from the point of view of future PE teachers and their families by David Hortigüela-Alcalá, Daniel Bores-García, Raúl Barba-Martín & Gustavo González-Calvo.