Tag: Richard Light

Sociology for Physical Education and Sports Coaching by Richard L. Light and Steve Georgakis (Routledge) introduces an accessible, jargon-free foundation for understanding the relationships between sport, education, and wider society. Our reviewers Norwegian sport sociologist Jan ove Tangen, is not impressed – not by the idea to boil down complex scholarly matter into a 122 page book, and not by the result. Which is not to say that the book is not important, only that it doesn’t live up to the standards that the authors themselves set up.

Damion Sturm’s and Roslyn Kerr’s edited collection Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested Terrain (Routledge) investigates the sporting traditions, successes, systems, “terrains” and contemporary issues that underpin sport in New Zealand, also known by its Māori name of Aotearoa. Our reviewer is Rod Philpot, who enjoyed reading the book and gained new understandings of sport, sportspeople and sporting and recreational activities that are occurring in his own backyard.

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: ‘An institutional history of the physical education in the Lebanon by Elias Saad & Fabrice Delsahut.

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: Learning in the educational landscapes of juggling, unicycling, and dancing by G. Nyberg, D. Barker & H. Larsson.

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: TENSIONS AND TRACTIONS OF MOVING TOGETHER AND ALONE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION by Laura Suominen Ingulfsvann, Gunn Engelsrud & Vegard Fusche Moe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education 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.