Tag: Simona Petracovschi

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.

Physical guidance, i.e. a PE teacher or sports coach touching a child in the course of sports technique development, is a sensitive issue. In Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education: Fear, risk and moral panic, edited by Heather Piper (Routledge), fourteen scholars deal with this issue from various national perspectives. Eystein Enoksen is our reviewer.