Sport Education and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport Education and Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty54
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments30
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland25
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools24
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise23
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda22
What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature21
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students19
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas18
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand17
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder17
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness17
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education17
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research16
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?16
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory16
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)16
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis15
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach15
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter14
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice14
Teaching across cultures: praxis of a South American immigrant PE teacher in an English-speaking country14
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals13
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training13
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care13
Media, gender, and physical education: analyzing ‘Jornal das Moças’ and its impact on Brazilian society (1930s–1960s)12
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity11
From inclusion to queer-trans pedagogy in school and physical education: a narrative ethnography of trans generosity11
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America11
Introduction to the special issue ‘intersectionality: exploring the possibilities and challenges for intersectional research in physical education and sport’11
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes11
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China11
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union10
‘I know how researchers are […] taking more from you than they give you’: tensions and possibilities of youth participatory action research in sport for development10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme10
The problematisation of ethnic and cultural diversity in physical education teacher education (PETE): an analysis of PETE course syllabi from Norway, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada9
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach9
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context9
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions9
An analysis of resource competition in intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of field theory: a qualitative study of the Caijia Straw Dragon9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education9
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport8
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability8
Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time8
‘She thought I was her gardener’: the life history of one Latino/Hispanic American college basketball coach8
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education8
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus8
Editorial fond farewell8
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development8
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education8
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers8
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study8
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia8
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education7
Correction7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?7
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport7
The land of opportunity? Ukraine refugee parents’ reflections on their children’s sport participation in Norway7
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)7
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport7
The transformative potential of trans*-inclusive PE: the experiences of PE teachers7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers7
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching7
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain6
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography6
Reclaiming movement: decolonial lived experiences in a gymnastics team in Amazonas-Brazil’6
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys6
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students6
Entanglement, irritation and routinisation: the embodied pedagogy of digital activity tracking6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change6
The two continua model for life skills teaching6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach6
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden6
‘Not to judge by the looks but you can tell by the looks!’ Physical capital as symbolic capital in the individualization of health among young Norwegians6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?6
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework6
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs6
The inability to detect change in sport organisations6
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms6
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport6
‘I focused on the beauty of the water and told myself that the lesson would end at noon’: physical education teachers’ deep acting during critical incidents in the context of French compensatory educa5
Strength and conditioning coaches’ perspectives of working with elite sportswomen5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education5
Athlete and coach-led education that teaches about abuse: an overview of education theory and design considerations5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature5
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum5
Creating value with expert martial art instructors in a social learning space: a professional development initiative5
Te Ao Kori in New Zealand physical education: a narrative literature review5
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania5
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches5
A qualitative inquiry into the workplace experiences of adapted physical education teachers5
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids5
The space between two closets: Erin Parisi mountaineering and changing the trans* narrative5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football5
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers: an ethnographic study5
The university power elite: conflict theory and faculty perceptions of intercollegiate athletics5
Problematising young people’s bodies: a critical discourse analysis of China’s national physical education and health curriculum policies5
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram5
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction5
‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university5
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective5
Cross self-confrontation as a Vygostkian interventionist method: the case of young aspiring elite taekwondoists5
‘I was the weird one down there’. The intersecting experiences of Norwegian international sport for development and peace volunteers5
Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach4
The development of craft in Australian National Rugby League referees4
Students’ experiences of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in England: a Deweyan perspective4
Legal and political activism: the next wave of student-athlete protest4
‘The fourth most important school subject’ – Norwegian school principals’ perceptions of physical education4
‘Engage me!' A multi-sport investigation of club interactions with parents at the beginning of the sporting season4
What is there to learn from the Open Gym? Developing new pedagogical notions of sports by an empirical engagement with a DIY sports infrastructure4
‘It’s like being there, but not in the way'. Exploring the use of virtual reality tools to stimulate reflection in Norwegian physical education teacher education4
‘Listen to students because they know more’: physical education teachers’ views and experiences of teaching gender diverse students in England4
From vision to action: the development of physical education in UN, UNESCO, South Korea, and Taiwan, 1945–20244
‘I’m not a horse girl’. Social divisions in students’ narratives and the implications for inclusive physical education4
Sports participation among Norwegian youth: a study of early sporting careers4
Being Water : how key ideas from the practice of Bruce Lee align with contemporary theorizing in movement skill acquisition4
Building the feminist futsal project: ‘where is feminism?’4
Rhythmanalysis in coaching: grasping the everyday rhythm(s) of coaching4
Playing by white rules of racial equality: student athlete experiences of racism in British university sport4
The inclusion of students with special educational needs in physical education according to the opinion of its protagonists: a qualitative study in Spain4
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education4
Use and application of wearable technology in football further education settings in the UK4
Enacting a new physical education curriculum: a collaborative investigation4
‘We are all learning together’: how youth mentors perceive their role in an after-school program3
Dramaturgical analysis of a coaching team’s interactional performances: an ethnography of video-based coaching in a paralympic sporting context3
Challenging ableism and the ‘disability as problem’ discourse: how initial teacher education can support the inclusion of students with a disability in physical education3
Regimes of hope: livelihood, social mobility, and autonomy in Sport for Development programs in the Global South3
(How) should environmental sustainability be a part of physical education? Analysing Swedish teachers’ voices through a Bernsteinian perspective3
The role of human rights in sport education: a call towards a new curriculum3
Are women equally represented in high-quality physical education research? Evidence from 2000 to 20203
Winning-at-all-costs: high-performance athletes learn to conform to the sport ethic3
Understanding in-situ complexities: a scoping review on the trends of qualitative method design and practice in coach–athlete dialogue studies3
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE: turning to criticality3
Pupils’ experiences of aquatic education as a meaningful activity in physical education3
Whose knowledge matters? Physical education teacher educator views and experiences of visual impairment simulations3
Evolving discourses on student-athlete policies in South Korea: a genealogical analysis3
Beyond the scoreboard: school-based sport experiences and high school student-athlete well-being3
The importance of trust in mentoring relationships for women’s outdoor leadership development3
When I walk through the stadium’s gate, I have to be a man among the others’: doing gender by female Tunisian football fans3
Enacting democratisation of health and physical education teacher education: examining two teacher educators’ experiences3
Examining the legacy of the ‘old boys club’ in high performance coaching3
‘Which barbell do you use now?' Exploring a transgender man’s embodiment through Olympic weightlifting3
School Physical Education and Teacher Education: Collaborative Redesign for the Twenty-first Century3
Sexual harassment, abuse and intimate relationships between coaches and athletes: a systematic review3
Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite3
‘Level the playing field’ – pupils’ experiences of inclusion and social justice in physical education and health3
Exploring the role and challenges of AI tools in physical education: qualitative insights from in-service, trainee, and future teachers3
Niels Bukh’s gymnastics in Argentinian Physical Education. an analysis of translations in the instances of debates and local curricular production (1938–1956)3
Sara’s story: a narrative inquiry into the third space of physical education teacher education and school PE3
What keeps them off the playing field: a textual analysis of Chinese female pre-service kindergarten teachers’ adolescent sports life history3
Stronger together: towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex3
Challenges facing retired athletes in China in their transition to physical education teachers3
Promoting adapted physical activity within kinesiology undergraduate programs: a RE-AIM perspective3
Body image in physical education: a narrative review3
High performance team sport coaches’ perspectives of their use of in-session core coaching practices to stimulate player learning3
Menstruation in PE. Exploring students’ perspectives in online forums3
How education policy actors interpret, portray and contest risk in children’s physically active play in schools: a framing analysis2
Charming, influencing and seducing: a portrayal of everyday coaching2
The construction of youth mental health and wellbeing: coloniality, colonised thinking and the drive to ‘fix’ mental health2
Choreographing gender: masculine domination and heteronormativity in physical education2
‘It is just a lever for success in life’: identity construction and perceived roles of elite para-athletes2
Exploring physical education teachers’ perceptions of sustainable development goals and education for sustainable development2
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: an intersectional study2
Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education2
Not just to know more, but to also know better : How data analysis-synthesis can be woven into sport science practiced as an art of inquiry2
Asian minds and bodies: a fresh lens on Asian student engagement in physical education2
Exploring how and why a sports-based multi-component intervention works for disengaged students: a longitudinal realist evaluation2
Habitus, capital and the shaping of sporting careers: a qualitative study of Norwegian youth2
Decoloniality and anti-racist pedagogy: sport students’ experiences of enhancing their racial literacy2
Are kinesiology programs oppressive? a content analysis of Canadian university kinesiology curricula and websites2
Examining the risk-safety paradox in outdoor education from a Taoist perspective: a case study of a Chinese outdoor education experience2
Hermanas in dialogue: amplifying female South American voices in Australian Health and Physical Education Teacher Education2
Teaching personal and social responsibility practitioners’ perceptions of the application of culturally relevant pedagogies2
Asian female international scholar experiences in kinesiology: a collaborative autoethnography2
‘I felt I’d lost myself – not really knowing who I was’: coach developer learning as negotiating identity through engagement, imagination and alignment2
Crossing the line: conceptualising and rationalising bullying and banter in male adolescent community football2
Promoting an equity-based approach for social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: international teacher educators’ perspectives2
A pedagogical examination of the potential of Iyengar yoga for trauma2
Norwegian physical education teachers’ assessment after the introduction of a new curriculum – LK202
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethnic China2
The atypical physical educator: Bordieuan insights into teacher’s body narratives and values construction in pedagogical practice2
The senses/sensing relationship in physical literacy: generating a worldly (re)enchantment for physical education2
‘It feels human … ’: reflective race research in kinesiology2
Convergences and divergences of elite men’s cricket players attending boys-only and private schools: an investigation of 1000 cricketers over a 30-year period2
Stigma, menstrual etiquette, and identity work: examining female exercisers’ experiences during menstruation2
The influence of school location, enrolment and socio-economic status on participation and success in inter-school swimming and track and field athletics competitions2
Behind-the-scenes insights from undertaking intersectional research in the field of sport and physical activity1
From individual to lifelong environmental processes: reframing health in physical education with the sustainable development goals1
Physical capital acquisition: a case of Chinese Wushu teenagers1
Toward a critical socioecological understanding of urban Black girls’ sport participation1
Developing athletes into cooperative learners: the potential in viewing coaches as educators and coaching as teaching1
Sexism, abuse and threatening behaviour: experiences of women football referees in amateur and semi-professional men’s football in the UK1
Segregation and success in Tasmanian primary school sport carnivals1
The role of healthy lifestyle technologies in supporting young adults’ healthy active lifestyles1
Teacher-coach-mom: a collaborative autoethnographic exploration into the clashing cultures of physical education and school sport1
Power, pedagogy and productivity: a Foucauldian analysis of sport management internships through the lens of supervisors’ perspectives in the U.S. sport industry1
How did we get here; a historical and social exploration of the construction of English FA coach education1
‘Health first, safety first’: an analysis of the legal system and professional ethics for curriculum enactment in China1
Professional teaching standards and inclusion in teacher education: insights from a hearing-impaired Health and Physical Education pre-service teacher’s professional experience1
Sport, concussion and student subcultures: the duty of care in neoliberal universities1
‘Those students who are really self-confident about their homosexuality usually have considerably fewer problems’: how physical education teachers perceive sexual and gender diversity in PE1
From Coubertin’s Olympism to neoliberal sports spectacle: narratives of Brazilian Olympic athletes1
Promoting mental health and well-being in physical education: a qualitative study on teachers and lecturers’ perceptions and practices in Malta1
Impact of occupational socialization on how physical education teachers employ character education in schools1
Troubling the human in Swedish physical education and health: a diffractive analysis of material-discursive entanglements1
Could caring be the engine to better orchestrate? An interpretative case study of a world championship futsal coaching team1
NCAA coaches’ perceptions of the inclusion of transgender athletes: a qualitative analysis1
‘For the first time in my career, I exploded’: a situational approach to emotional deviance in ‘difficult’ PE teaching context1
Developing three-dimensional spatial embodiment in architectural design education: underwater experiences1
Understanding the development of physical education professionals’ policy capacity1
A PE teacher’s tale: journeying from teacher education to teaching practice in physical education1
Complicity, trauma, love: an exploration of the experiences of LGBTQIA+ members from physical education spaces1
Health promotion in the Israeli education system: a policy analysis through an intersectional lens1
Movement integration in Swedish school-age educare centres1
Education for sustainability and physical education: a systematic scoping review1
Educating students with severe disabilities through an inclusive pedagogy in physical education1
‘The tennis club is my safe space’: assessing the positive impact of playing tennis on LGBT+ people in Australia1
Structuring play in physical education1
Embodied politics behind sports participation behavior: self-construction and group involution among young gay men in China1
‘Between the flags’: women's participation in surf lifesaving sport in Aotearoa New Zealand1
Exploring heutagogy in a tertiary coach developer course1
‘There is more room to do it at home’: constructing children’s physical activity spaces1
Physical education teacher education: disrupting ableism in gymnastics1
Facilitators and barriers of inclusion: a critical incident technique analysis of one non-binary Physical Education teacher’s workplace experiences1
Utilising the ecological–intersectional model to identify the factors that impact LGBTQ+ coaches’ experiences in sport1
‘Writing is not like doing’: girls’ views and perceptions of physical education provision in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia1
Navigating identity development as an ‘international inexperienced’ early career health and physical education teacher educator: a self-study1
Soccer: the only way to be a boy in Spain? narratives from a Spanish primary school on the influence of playground soccer in shaping masculinities and gender relations1
Exploring athletes’ socio-cultural experiences of support when living with persistent post-concussion syndrome1
‘She was a rare diamond’: teachers’ experiences of teaching a visually impaired student in a friluftsliv programme1
Researchers as actors: using vignettes to understand how researcher-facilitators negotiate their roles in collaborative research in physical education1
Sports participation as a reflection of social inclusion in youth: a holistic exploration of sport within young people’s lives1
‘Break the rules or quit the job’: physical education teachers’ experiences of physical contact in their teaching practice1
Conquering fear to pedal forward: emotions and learning in high-risk sports1
Fit Nation: The Gains & Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela1
Exploring how social media shapes the personal learning environments of Chinese pre-service physical education teachers1
Implementing an organizational trauma-informed approach: an urgent priority to protect the well-being of all members in sport from the top down1
Tensions in enacting democratic approaches in physical education teacher education1
Experiences of a parent-coach: ‘a different ball game’ – an autoethnographic account1
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