Tag: Tim Hopper
Are sport scientists finally addressing the elephant in the womb?
Petra Kolić’s and Christopher I. Morse’s edited collection Menstruation and the Menstrual Cycle in Sport, Exercise, and Physical Activity (Routledge) is the first book to offer students, researchers, and professionals an evidenced-based reference on considerations and concepts relevant to sports performance and physical activity during menstruation and the menstrual cycle. Leah Monsees has been waiting for a book like this, and minor critical points aside she concludes that the book makes a meaningful contribution to this emerging field.
Constructive collaboration brings together particularities into a comprehensive body of knowledge
Sport and physical activity are embedded in our education systems and in wider society. Education in Sport and Physical Activity: Future Directions and Global Perspectives, edited by Karen Petry & Johan de Jong (Routledge) takes the broadest possible look at this topic. In his clever review, Joacim Andersson finds that when scholars reach a point where their paths intersect, they sit down and listen to one another, and that stories that don’t really connect just need someone (or occasionally 47 scholars) to open a gallery for them.
Taking Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) to a new level
Joy I. Butler passed away in September 2019. Mikael Londos remembers her by reviewing her seminal work from 2016, Playing Fair: Using student-invented games to prevent bullying, teach democracy, and promote social justice (Human Kinetics). In spite of taking issues with some aspects of her Teaching Games for Understanding model, our reviewer is happy to recommend Butler’s book to all PETE and PE teachers alike.
