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Papers

(The median citation count of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is 2. 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 podcasts: a thriving community of practice or a one-way mode of communication?	52
Enriching organisational design for games: the case of badminton in physical education	41
Merging observational and interview data to study and improve the adaptability of the products of didactic engineering to ordinary teaching in physical education	31
The influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review	23
Replay the game and teach for understanding: exploring the use of video tagging in an invasion games unit	23
Reimagining school-university partnerships in physical education: a collaborative design to approach democratic professionalism	22
The lived experience of sport education: a web of interconnected experiences	19
Facilitating loose parts play with elementary school staff: professional development and implementation from the perspective of the facilitator	18
Producing the well and skilled body: a critical discourse analysis of health and physical education curriculum policy in Aotearoa New Zealand	18
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	18
Exploring practitioner inquiry among health and physical education teachers: insights from teachers’ perspectives	18
Positive youth development through sport and physical education: a systematic review of empirical research conducted with grade 5 to 12 children and youth	17
Intervention fidelity: multiple strategies to design, implement, and assess mastery motivational climate behavioral interventions	16
Student choice and barriers to physical activity in Latino boys in the REACH after-school program	15
Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences	15
The role of artefacts in developing competences in physical education: exploring students’ experience and knowledge built in action	15
Effects of a unit of circus activities through a hybridization of cooperative learning and self-made material: a students, teachers and parents combined perspective	14
Transforming physical education: an analysis of context and resources that support curriculum transformation and enactment	13
Urban–rural differences in TGfU-based physical education at Taiwanese primary schools from the perspective of cultural capital	13
Chess training for improving executive functions and invasion game tactical behavior of college student athletes: a preliminary investigation	13
deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE	13
Health-based physical education in an elementary school: effects on physical self-concept, motivation, fitness and physical activity	12
Developing social and school facilitators for a positive school transition through a Sport Education and Service-Learning programme	12
Gender preference of conceptions toward caloric-balanced living	11
Teachers’ perceptions of implementing sport education in Saudi middle schools	11

A pre-longitudinal screen of performance in an integrated assessment of throwing and catching competence	11
Two teachers’ positioning toward Meaningful PE: agency, sensemaking, and ownership	11
A qualitative examination on the preparation of preservice physical education teachers for assessment in secondary teaching methods courses in the US	10
Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women	10
Exploring students experiences of secondary school Physical Education in England	10
Everyone is welcome under the big top: a multiple case study on circus arts instruction in physical education	10
Teachers’ experiences of enacting pedagogical models and models-based practice: a systematic mixed study review	10
Generalization and maintenance of skill trials from physical education to recess in elementary school	10
Exploring coping strategies in physical education. A qualitative case study	9
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	9
Critical application of TGfU in sports coaching	9
Sport pedagogy and feminism: what is known and what is missing? Findings from a scoping review	9
Moving Well-Being Well: a process evaluation of a physical literacy-based intervention in Irish primary schools	9
Developing a love for playing games: a clarification of why Digital Video Games Approach is not Gamification	9
Developing embodied competence while becoming a PE teacher: PETE students’ embodied experiences and reflections after micro-teaching	9
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	8
Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education	8
Early childhood physical activity parenting and sport club participation as predictors of perceived motor competence – a three-year longitudinal study	8
Emancipation or simulation? The pedagogy of ignorance and action research in PETE	7
How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review	7
Chinese students’ experiences of ‘high-stakes’ assessment: the role of fitness testing	7
The student's experience of teacher support in French vocational high-school classes with difficulties in school engagement in physical education: interest of mixed methods research	7
Mapping the physical literacy controversy: an analysis of key actors within scholarly literature	7
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	7
The association between physical education and academic achievement in other curriculum learning areas: A review of literature	7
Synthesis and literature review of different mixed methods designs in pedagogical research in physical education	7
The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions	7
Cognitively enriched physical activity may foster motor competence and executive function as early as preschool age: a pilot trial	7
The othering of trans, inter and non-binary students in physical education: an intersectional perspective	7
The difficulty of policy transfer in physical education: the failure of UNESCO’s Quality Physical Education in South Africa	7
Rethinking pedagogical practices with care-experienced young people: lessons from a sport-based programme analysed through a Freirean lens	6
Signature pedagogies of teacher education in physical education: a scoping review	6
Digital technology in game-based approaches: video tagging in football in PE	6
How do we teach about ethnic and cultural diversity in PETE? A discourse analysis of interviews from Norway, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada	6
Exploring elementary classroom teachers' practices of movement integration: the ten MI styles	6
Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice	6
Fit for the job? How corporeal expectations shape physical education teachers’ understandings of content, pedagogy, and the purposes of physical education	6
PE at Home: keeping the ‘E’ in PE while home-schooling during a pandemic	6
‘They don’t have bad intentions.’ The disciplinary power of heteronormative communication in upper secondary Polish physical education – a case study	6
Initial fidelity of a powered mobility intervention: a case report	6
Game performance assessment instrument in physical education: a systematic review from 2015 to 2024	6
Students’ perceptions of fitness testing in physical education across primary, secondary, and pre-university school levels: a motivational profiles perspective	6
Social and emotional learning for underserved children through a sports-based youth development program grounded in teaching personal and social responsibility	6
Towards an integration of physical activity and environmental awareness: analysis of students’ activity in physical education	6
Practising the practice. Towards a theory of practising in physical education from a Bildung-theoretical perspective	5
Training programmes to learn how to ride a bicycle independently for children and youths: a systematic review	5
The enactment of the Socially-Just Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (SJ-TPSR) approach in physical education teacher education: Teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ perspectives	5
Exploring the impact of a coach development programme through the perspectives of Saudi Arabian sport coaches	5
Critical contextual factors of sustainable online teaching: learning the lessons of pandemic times from physical education teachers’ and school administrators’ perspectives	5
Practising collaboration in model implementation in physical education	5

What do we know about pedagogical models in physical education so far? An umbrella review	5
The critical thinking approach to tactical development in team sports: a review of the work of Jean Francis Gréhaigne	5
Reflecting on student reflections in physical education practice: moving beyond a theory-and-practice divide	5
Towards a refined insight into physical education teachers’ autonomy-supportive, structuring, and controlling style to the importance of student motivation: a person-centered approach	5
‘Free but not free-free’: teaching creative aspects of dance in physical education teacher education	4
First-nation Australian children’s interpretation of a pictorial questionnaire designed to assess physical literacy	4
Benefits of a daily physical activity program supervised by a physical and health education teacher: utility of a mixed methods study using an ecological approach	4
Stakeholder perceptions of the feasibility of e-portfolio-based assessment of physical literacy in primary health and physical education	4
Developing a socially-just teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) approach: a pedagogy for social justice for physical education (teacher education)	4
Enactive and ecological dynamics approaches: complementarity and differences for interventions in physical education lessons	4
Exploring Movement Composition in the transition from physical education teacher education to school PE	4
Sensitivity, shared purpose, and learning community: a case study of a Brazilian sport program with children and young people from socially vulnerable backgrounds	4
Six teaching strategies to support meaningful PE experiences in early primary schools – results from an action research project	4
Observing physical education teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles using a circumplex approach: how does it relate to student outcomes?	4
Selecting (or not) physical education as an elective subject: Spanish high school students’ views	4
A didactic approach to the adjustments involved in physical and sports education. Comparison of examples on the use of forms-representations in the teaching of throws in athletics	4
Impact of a model-based paralympic sports project in physical education on primary school pupils’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and intentions toward inclusion of peers with physical disabilities	4
Physical literacy is associated with children's adherence to physical activity guidelines during COVID-19	4
Motor competence assessment in physical education – convergent validity between fundamental movement skills and functional movement assessments in adolescence	4
‘Even with the craziness, it worked’: PE teachers working in and with an Activist Approach	4
Learning to cycle: a constraint-led intervention programme using different cycling task constraints	4
Social stratification of physical activity. An exploration into how logics of practice affect participation in movement culture	4
How pupils’ playfulness creates possibilities for pleasure and learning in physical education	4
Opinions on grading and difficulties encountered by physical education and health teachers in relation to assessment	4
Risk and safety management in physical education: teachers’ knowledge	4
Cognitive activation in preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs–insights into different stages of professional socialization	4
Toward the virtuous mover: a neo-Aristotelian interpretation of physical education	4
Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices	3
The emotional labor of physical education teachers in ‘difficult contexts’: an inductive analysis of the most significant moments of their career	3
How do high-level youth soccer players approach and solve game problems? The role of strategic understanding	3
‘There’s nothing wrong with me’: experiencing Physical Education at the intersections of disability, ethnicity and gender	3
Co-creating strategies for enacting trauma-aware pedagogies with pre-service physical education teachers	3
Promoting instructional alignment in physical education teacher education	3
Exploring Australian teachers’ perceptions of physical literacy: a mixed-methods study	3
What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review	3
Effectiveness of a lesson study intervention on teacher behaviour and student motivation in physical education lessons	3
The positive impact of an in-service training program in the prevention and management of indiscipline in secondary school physical education in the Maghreb region	3
Tracking relations between development of tactical knowledge and tactical behaviour: a season-long action research study	3
Development of the situational emotional labor and deviance model: relevance in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy	3
Teachers’ actor-oriented transfer of movement pedagogy knowledge in physical education	3
PLitPE: an intervention for physical literacy enriched pedagogy in Canadian elementary school physical education classes	2
Preparing pre-service physical education teachers as practitioner researchers	2
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in football: the MASTER Coaching randomised control trial	2
Physical education from LGBTQ+ students’ perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies	2
Discontinuity, risk, patience, and appeal: existential aspects of practising in physical education	2
Stakeholders’ perceptions of within-class ability grouping in a primary school physical education unit	2
A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England	2
A mixed methods analysis of a yearlong intercultural competence curriculum strand	2
Effects of a training course on creation of an empowering motivational climate in physical education: a quasi-experimental study	2
Assessing the motivational climates in early physical education curricula underpinned by motor learning theory: SAMPLE-PE	2
Modifying physical activities for maximizing learning opportunities: perspectives of Finnish physical educators and special educators on inclusive teaching strategies	2
Development of fundamental motor skills between 2006 and 2016 in Dutch primary school children	2
‘I have normalised being treated differently’. Analysis of the experiences of foreign students in Physical Education	2
A narrative inquiry into the physical education and youth sport experiences of gay male rugby players: a Bourdieuian perspective	2
A pilot study of early childhood teachers’ views on teaching a structured physical education curriculum: challenges and recommendations	2
Getting ‘more and more comfortable’: using an Activist Approach in a dance PE content course	2
Effects of cooperative learning in youth athletics’ motivational climate, peer relationships and self-concept	2
Effects of gamified didactic with exergames on the psychological variables associated with promoting physical exercise: results of a natural experiment run in primary schools	2
Controlling the display of videos in a physical education context: effects on learning outcomes and situational interest	2
Pre-service teachers content-related analyses of a physical education learning task	2
Lessons learned teaching social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: a self-study	2
Coach experiences of formal coach education developed by national governing bodies: a systematic review	2
Social-ecological and biographical perspectives of principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programs: a person-centered analysis	2