Tag: Routledge

Leisure Sciences presents scientific inquiries into the study of leisure, recreation, parks, travel, and tourism from a social science perspective. Articles cover the social and psychological aspects of leisure, and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Leisure Trips to the Natural Environment: Examining the Tradeoff between Economic and Environmental Impact by Pamela Wicker, Paul Downward & Simona Rasciute.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘A small leap for disabled man’: the athlete-led evolution of the sports wheelchair and adaptive sports by Samuel Brady (open access).

JGSM aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarity of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘I Will Go to the Game, While You Stay Home with the Kids': Gender Role Expectations and Sport Fan-Family Conflict by Heidi Grappendorf, Jason Simmons & Meg Hancock.

The purpose of WLJ is to stimulate and communicate research, theory, and critical thought in all areas that address leisure, including play, recreation, the arts and culture, sport, health and fitness, and travel and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Frederick W. Taylor and the congruence of active leisure & work by Brian Komyathy.

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: G‘She thought I was her gardener’: the life history of one Latino/Hispanic American college basketball coach by Richard F. Jowers & Matthew D. Curtner-Smith.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The London Games of 2012, New Labour and the ‘known unknowns’ of the Olympics by Giuseppe Telesca.

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 difficulty of policy transfer in physical education: the failure of UNESCO’s Quality Physical Education in South Africa by Christina Uhlenbrock & Henk Erik Meier.

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: Secondary physical education teaching methods course: through the lens of the preservice teachers by Michael Hodges, Ashley Phelps, Robert Knipe, Brooke Doherty, Jeff Colburn & Xiaofen D. Hamilton.

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: ‘Understanding Russia’s identity through Olympic ceremonies by Nina Kramareva & Jonathan Grix.

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 influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review by Victoria A. Goodyear, Bethany Skinner, Jonathon McKeever & Mark Griffiths (open access).