Dear all,
All in all, last week must be considered a good one in terms of output, and also in terms of page views, with 5,350 views it’s the best week since mid-December. The week starting today, however, will be an altogether different affair, due to a medical intervention involving your faithful editor. I don’t expect to be out of commission for the whole week, but output will be modest at best. The following week we’re back in the saddle again.
Last week the following items were published on idrottsforum.org (see below; language and publication dates, YYMMDD, in brackets). Click on the red headings to go to content. Utilize the Google Translate service to turn Scandinavian language pages into (some sort of) English.
Have a great week,
Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Research Article
How Do Preservice Teachers Produce and Reproduce Knowledge When Participating in a Subject Matter Course?
The aim of this study by Runa Westerlund is to empirically explore, from a transactional approach, what happens in learning occasions when preservice teachers (PSTs) participate in a physical education teacher education (PETE) subject matter course. A practical epistemology analysis was used to explore how knowledge is produced and reproduced in PETE lessons. Two major themes were found in the analysis: indeterminate situations connected to (a) PSTs developing movement capability and (b) PSTs developing a teacher’s perspective. (Peer review article, published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum in English 230308.
Book Reviews
Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska, by Jessica Cherry & Frank Soos (eds.)
Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska collected by Jessica Cherry & Frank Soos (University of Nebraska Press) reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling both as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature. Our resident cycling afficionado – albeit not a psyclist – Duncan Jamieson found the book thoroughly enjoyable to read, and his enlightening review is in itself highly readable. (Review in English, published 230306.)
Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO, by Heather L. Dichter
In her award-winning Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (University of Massachusetts Press), Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to political interference. In his review, our foremost expert on the history of sport diplomacy and international politics Kristian Gerner is impressed by Dr. Dichter’s meticulous study of the competition for the Winter Games in 1968. (Review in English, published 230309.)
The Rational Practitioner: The Sport and Performance Psychologist’s Guide To Practicing Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, by Martin Turner
Back in the 1950s, Albert Ellis developed a therapeutic approach, considered the first cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which he named rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). Today, REBT is gaining renewed interest, and Martin Turner’s brand new The Rational Practitioner: The Sport and Performance Psychologist’s Guide To Practicing Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (Routledge) is a sign of that. Our reviewer is Stuart Carrington, and to his mind Turner does an excellent job presenting and explaining REBT. (Review in English, published 230310.)
New on the Sport Scholars List
Joseph D Lewandowski, University of Central Missouri
Joseph D Lewandowski is a writer, researcher, educator, and avid pugilist. He currently serves as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri (USA), and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Lewandowski is also an Expert Advisor at the Legatum Institute, a globally oriented London-based think tank devoted to lifting people out of poverty by creating pathways to prosperity. (230309)
New Issues of Scholarly Journals
(We rely heavily on journal publishers delivering on their promises of new issue alerts. Sometimes they don’t.)
World Leisure Journal, Volume 65, 2023, Issue 1 230306)- Journal of Sport Management, Volume 37, 2023, Issue 2 (230306)
- Performance Enhancement & Health, Vol. 11, 2023, Issue 1 (230307)
- Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Journal, Volume 1, 2023, Number 1 (230308)
- Athens Journal of Sports, Volume 10, 2023, Issue 1 230308)
- Journal of Sport Behavior, Vol. 45, 2022, No. 3 (230308)
- Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning, Volume 23, 2023, Issue 1 (230309)
- Journal of Global Sport Management, Volume 8, 2023, issue 1 (230312)
- International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Vol. 6, 2023, Issue 1 | Leisure and the University: International Perspectives (230312)
- Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, Volume 17, 2023, Issue 1 (230312)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Call for Participants | “The battle for the petrodollars; Qatar and Saudi Arabia” | Webinar via Zoom from UVIC, March 8, 2023, 18:00 hrs CET (230306)
- A peer-reviewed online and open access databank covering Finnish sports journalism has been published (230309)
- Review of the Economic and Legal Aspects of the Organisation of Football in Europe (230309)
- Call for Papers | “Emergent, novel, and non-traditional qualitative research methods: Beyond the interview” | Special Issue of Journal of Teaching in Physical Education. Call ends June 15, 2023 (230312)
- Call for Papers | “Increasing benefits and decreasing risks”, National Youth Sport Conference | Adelaide, November 16–17, 2023. Call ends July 3, 2023 (230312)
