OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport Education and Society is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘I’m not a horse girl’. Social divisions in students’ narratives and the implications for inclusive physical education	40
‘Man can make great natatorial progress’: swimming as a white sporting racial project	30
The interplay between reproducing stigma and building agency for social change in sports coaching: the lived experiences of lesbian coaches in Spain	24
A realist evaluation of the use of Flipgrid to facilitate collaborative online learning and reflection in sport coaching	24
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education	23
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education	20
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	19
Men and menstruation: views and perspectives influencing participation in adventurous activities	18
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching	17
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	16
The problematization of the (im)possible subject: an analysis of Health and Physical Education policy from Australia, USA and Wales	15
Use and application of wearable technology in football further education settings in the UK	15
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: an intersectional study	15
Taking time for new ideas: learning qualitative research methods in higher sports education	14
International College of Reviewers 2021–22	14
Developing creative coaches through action research: why and how context matters	14
Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education	14
Gender order through social censure: an examination of social exclusion in sport coaching	13
Narratives of adventure, intimacy, conformity, and rejection: narrative inquiry as a methodological approach to understanding how women student athletes ‘do’ sport-related drinking	13
Swimming in flow motion: an ecopedagogy for health and physical education	13
Logics in play: what ‘rules of the game’ regulate Swedish PE teachers’ decision-making processes?	13
Editorial: sport volunteering, educational leadership and social transformation	13
The inclusion of students with special educational needs in physical education according to the opinion of its protagonists: a qualitative study in Spain	12
‘My perspective has changed on an entire group of people’: undergraduate students’ experiences with the Paralympic Skill Lab	12
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport	12

Stigma, menstrual etiquette, and identity work: examining female exercisers’ experiences during menstruation	11
Disciplinary literacy and verbal language in physical education	11
Legal and political activism: the next wave of student-athlete protest	11
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	11
An ocean of intercultural experiential learning	11
A qualitative case study of primary classroom teachers’ perceived value of physical education in New Zealand	10
Asian minds and bodies: a fresh lens on Asian student engagement in physical education	10
Sports participation among Norwegian youth: a study of early sporting careers	10
Challenging ableism and the ‘disability as problem’ discourse: how initial teacher education can support the inclusion of students with a disability in physical education	10
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	9
Crossing the line: conceptualising and rationalising bullying and banter in male adolescent community football	9
Asian female international scholar experiences in kinesiology: a collaborative autoethnography	9
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	9
Teaching personal and social responsibility practitioners’ perceptions of the application of culturally relevant pedagogies	8
Habitus and practice: social reproduction and trajectory in outdoor education and higher education	8
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	8
‘The fourth most important school subject’ – Norwegian school principals’ perceptions of physical education	8
Youth participation in a wheelchair tennis program from a social relational perspective	8
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda	7
Curriculum for mountaineering, climbing and winter sports instructors in Spain. A critical approach according to key stakeholders	7
Students’ experiences of paraeducator support in inclusive physical education: helping or hindering?	7
Living within and outside a disciplinary bubble: a Foucauldian analysis of Brazilian gymnasts’ experiences in boarding school	7
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise	7
‘Level the playing field’ – pupils’ experiences of inclusion and social justice in physical education and health	7
Influence of a professional development programme on the life skills teaching practices of secondary PE teachers	7
Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis	7
Exploration and creation of meaningful teacher educator practises in physical education teacher education	7
An empirical study of Bourdieu’s theory on capital and habitus in the sporting habits of higher education students learning in Central and Eastern Europe	7
Girls and women in umpiring: retention and participation limited by hostile cultural contexts	7
Correction	7
Playing by white rules of racial equality: student athlete experiences of racism in British university sport	6
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	6
How teachers feel: exploring secondary physical educators’ emotions, control beliefs, and coping mechanisms on the job	6
On making one’s way through chess	6
Beyond the scoreboard: school-based sport experiences and high school student-athlete well-being	6
Unpacking the joy of movement – ‘it’s almost never the same’	6
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research	6
The body in group exercise for older persons: implications of the explicit, implicit and null curricula	6
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?	6
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students	6
Adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) and their perceptions of, and motivation for, physical activity and organised sports	6
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach	6
‘It is just a lever for success in life’: identity construction and perceived roles of elite para-athletes	5
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness	5
Entanglement, irritation and routinisation: the embodied pedagogy of digital activity tracking	5
Exploring heutagogy in a tertiary coach developer course	5
Promoting mental health and well-being in physical education: a qualitative study on teachers and lecturers’ perceptions and practices in Malta	5
Menstruation in PE. Exploring students’ perspectives in online forums	5
Enactive cognition and physical education – a natural coupling	5

‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	5
Becoming the Divas of SUS: the construction of a community of active women in a socially vulnerable context	5
Peeling back the layers: examining the trauma-informed programming experiences of staff in a sport for development and peace organization	5
Beyond inclusion: trans and gender diverse young people’s experiences of PE and school sport	5
The two continua model for life skills teaching	5
Practical, professional or patriarchal? An investigation into the socio-cultural impacts of gendered school sports uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female experiences of school sport	5
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?	5
Physical educators’ experiences and perceptions towards teaching autistic children: a mixed methods approach	5
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE: turning to criticality	5
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethnic China	5
NCAA coaches’ perceptions of the inclusion of transgender athletes: a qualitative analysis	5
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	5
Becoming an ethnographer in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture: a challenging self-knowledge journey	5
Running for an academic degree: ultra-Orthodox women studying physical education at a non-religious college	5
‘Hearing their voice’: the experiences of physical education with pupils diagnosed with severe learning disabilities	5
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	4
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 inquiry	4
Where the rubber hits the road: how school leaders work with government-initiated policy within physical education	4
Sexual harassment, abuse and intimate relationships between coaches and athletes: a systematic review	4
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change	4
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?	4
The senses/sensing relationship in physical literacy: generating a worldly (re)enchantment for physical education	4
Exploring the re-legitimisation of messages for health and physical education within contemporary English and Welsh curricula reform	4
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	4
Finally … the team! Navigating obstacles in girls’ access to football	4
Raibuliavimas (making ripples): student-athletes action safe sport in Lithuania	4
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	4
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	4
Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite	4
Physical Literacy across the World	4
Evolving discourses on student-athlete policies in South Korea: a genealogical analysis	4
Negotiations, agreements, and understandings: reconceptualising football referee decision-making in sport as a social relational activity	4