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    Social cohesion – contested concept, complex practice. Can sport help?

    Social cohesion has been a buzzword among public policymakers for the past 25 years. Sport for Social Cohesion: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, edited by Karen Petry and Louis Moustakas (Routledge) looks at the role that sport can play in fostering social cohesion. Alan Bairner notes that the book should come as a relief in an increasingly incoherent world, and he finds it thought-provoking. “Like me, many will find some of it frustrating. Others, not yet mired in cynicism, may well find it inspiring.”

    European Physical Education Review, Vol. 31, 2025, No. 1

    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: Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education by Håkan Larsson, Dean Barker, Jan-Eric Ekberg, Christopher Engdahl, Anders Frisk, and Gunn Nyberg (open access).

    Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 5

    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: Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women by Amani Khalaf. H. Alghamdi & Ali Aldossari.

    Highlighting the contested nature of sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: An edited collection

    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.

    Sport, Education and Society, Volume 27, 2022, Issue 3

    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: Investigating the alignment between coaches’ ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football by Joshua Hall, Ed Cope, Robert C. Townsend & Adam R. Nicholls.

    Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 26, 2021, Issue 6

    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: Preservice teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge as a function of content knowledge in teaching elementary physical education content by Insook Kim.

    Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, Volume 12, 2021, Issue 3

    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: The relation between teaching physical education and discourses on body weight – an integrative review of research by Mikael Quennerstedt, Dean Barker, Anna Johansson & Peter Korp (open access).

    Sport, Education and Society, Volume 26, 2021, Issue 8

    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: ‘While we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink’: three physical education teachers’ professional growth through and beyond a prolonged participatory action research project by Lars Bjørke, Øyvind Førland Standal & Kjersti Mordal Moen.

    Sport, Education and Society, Volume 26, 2021, Issue 5

    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: The concept of ‘friluftsliv literacy’ in relation to physical literacy in physical education pedagogies by Idar Lyngstad & Eivind Sæther.

    Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Volume 26, 2021, Issue 3 | Developing movement capability in physical education

    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.
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