OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport Education and Society is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda	44
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	33
Editorial: sport volunteering, educational leadership and social transformation	24
Gender order through social censure: an examination of social exclusion in sport coaching	23
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	22
Habitus and practice: social reproduction and trajectory in outdoor education and higher education	19
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise	18
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students	18
What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature	17
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research	17
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	17
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	17
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	16
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas	15
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	15
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness	14
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	14
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?	14
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	13
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)	13
‘But in PEH it still feels extra unfair’: students’ experiences of equitable assessment and grading practices in physical education and health (PEH)	13
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training	12
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care	12
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter	12
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China	12

From inclusion to queer-trans pedagogy in school and physical education: a narrative ethnography of trans generosity	11
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes	11
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union	11
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America	11
‘I know how researchers are […] taking more from you than they give you’: tensions and possibilities of youth participatory action research in sport for development	10
By the assemblage: physical education teachers’ encounters of a state teacher accountability system	10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education	10
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context	10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity	10
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time	9
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 Canada	9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context	9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education	9
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach	8
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions	8
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia	8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education	8
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia	8
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability	8
Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder	8
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development	8
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport	7
International College of Reviewers 2020–2021	7
The transformative potential of trans*-inclusive PE: the experiences of PE teachers	7
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport	7
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers	7
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people	7
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study	7
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	7
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)	7
Editorial fond farewell	7
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach	7
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education	7
Disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education	7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?	7
‘She thought I was her gardener’: the life history of one Latino/Hispanic American college basketball coach	7
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education	6
‘My perspective has changed on an entire group of people’: undergraduate students’ experiences with the Paralympic Skill Lab	6
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography	6
Entanglement, irritation and routinisation: the embodied pedagogy of digital activity tracking	6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives	6
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	6
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach	6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain	6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	6
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching	6
A realist evaluation of the use of Flipgrid to facilitate collaborative online learning and reflection in sport coaching	6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?	6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change	6

A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	6
‘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 Norwegians	5
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs	5
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids	5
A qualitative inquiry into the workplace experiences of adapted physical education teachers	5
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport	5
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys	5
The two continua model for life skills teaching	5
Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism	5
The space between two closets: Erin Parisi mountaineering and changing the trans* narrative	5
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction	5
‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university	5
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden	5
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms	5
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport	5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football	5
The glocalization of physical education assessment discourse	5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature	5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education	5
PE teacher selection and employment examination: a reinventive institution within teacher education and socialisation	5