OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Physical Education Review is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“We have limited time, so it's a zero-sum game”: Influence of secondary organizational socialization on the forms of physical education teacher education provided by European, Asian, and North America	48
Students’ perceptions of teaching styles use and motivation to participate in PE: A multigroup analysis of the mediating role of basic psychological needs	33
Exploring social justice pedagogies in physical education in Austria: Teaching practices for diversity and equity	28
Seeking a balance between ideal teaching and ‘what works’ in a physical education teacher education service learning programme	23
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	21
Holistic assessment in school physical education: ‘Seeing the whole picture with our trained eye’	20
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	20
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	19
Trauma-informed practices and physical education: A scoping literature review	19
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	18
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	18
The process(es) of learning about teaching using models-based practice: Pre-service teachers’ experiences	17
The experiences of Latina and Latino blind and visually impaired students in physical education: A retrospective study	17
Classroom management and individual interest in physical education: A self-determination theory approach	17
Co-designing a running/walking programme with adolescent girls using meaningful physical activity and an activist approach	17
Grading in physical education: Exploring teachers’ experiences and reflections on the increase in top grades among upper secondary school students in Norway	16
Experiences of slow movement practices in upper secondary school physical education	16
Virtual reality in physical education: A systematic literature review	15
More than advocates: Exploring the role of school adults in amplifying the physical education voices of pupils with a severe learning difficulty in a special school in England	15
Examining the construct validity of the FMS ² assessment tool	14
Fitting in or standing out? The organisational socialisation of early career physical education specialism graduates through a micropolitical lens	14
Feeling the lesson: Affect, attunement and trauma-informed physical education	14
From barriers to facilitators: Examining views of schoolteachers on provision of school-based swimming and water safety education in Türkiye	13
Re-imagining performance spaces and locations in ecological dynamics: Implications for pedagogical practices in physical education	13
That's what I like! Fostering enjoyment in primary physical education	12

Working with trauma-affected young people in secondary schools: Exploring ‘self-care’ with pre-service physical education teachers	12
Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership	11
The relationship between occupational socialization factors and in-service physical educators’ reported use of sport education	11
Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	11
The association of perceived mattering and emotions with physical educator teacher resilience	11
The if , why and how of fitness testing in secondary school	10
Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	10
Gross motor coordination, motivation and attitudes towards traffic rules in primary school children: A quasi-experimental pre–post cycling intervention study	10
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	10
The role of teaching experience and year level in shaping pre-service PE teachers’ efficacy	10
Motivational processes matter: Understanding the choice of physical education as an elective in secondary school	9
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	9
Effects of a gamified physical education intervention on motor competence and emotional intelligence among disadvantaged primary-school children: A quasi-experimental pilot study	9
Obstacle course-based versus traditional physical education: Which promotes more physical activity and less sedentary behaviour?	9
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	9
Associations between organisational support, surface-acting, role stress, and physical education teachers’ work engagement: Moderated mediation and latent profile analyses	8
Relationships of a Cooperative Learning intervention in physical education with children's self-perception dimensions	8
Grading the physical self: Exploring the links between physical education grades, body image, and functional investment over one academic school year	8
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Physical education pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning about the spectrum of teaching styles and its role in their pedagogical awareness and practice	8
The role of marginalisation and role stressors in physical education teachers’ perceived mattering	7
The transformation of ball games as pedagogic discourse within physical education teacher education	7
Analysing the physical education teaching competencies of pre-service teachers through observation	7
‘The teacher could correct me without being there’: Adapting distance education approaches to promote physical activity during lockdown	7
Bildung : A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	7
Motivation profiles in school physical education and the role of motor competence in profile memberships: A four-year latent transition analysis	7
Physical education teacher education matters – This is how!	7
Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review	7
How is observed (de)motivating teaching associated with student motivation and device-based physical activity during physical education?	7
Students’ perceptions of physical education teachers’ (de)motivating styles via the circumplex approach: Differences by gender, grade level, experiences, intention to be active, and learning	7
Choreographing meaningfulness: Boys’ experiences of dance in primary school	6
“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers	6
Binary and non-binary trans students’ experiences in physical education: A systematic review	6
Physical education in rural schools: A scoping review	6
The interplay between student-centred pedagogical strategies and preservice teachers’ epistemological development in physical education teacher education	6
‘Let us wear our own Goddamn clothes’ : Students’ perceptions of school uniform as a barrier to physical activity and physical education participation in schools	6
Invisible on the field: Experiences of students with visual impairment in physical education in Nepal	6
The structural and convergent validity of the FMS ² assessment tool among 8- to 12-year-old children	6
The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport	6
Where does teacher professional learning happen? An ethnographic inquiry into learning spaces of health and physical education teachers	6
Perceived organizational support, marginalization, isolation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction of PETE faculty members	5
Examination of associations across transformational teacher leadership, motivational orientation, enjoyment, and boredom in physical education students	5
Principals’ attitudes and intentions toward supporting adapted physical education	5
Learning to facilitate student voice in primary physical education	5
Understanding Midwestern US Teacher Socialization during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Spectrum of Teaching Styles and models-based practice for physical education	5
Growth trajectories and roles of expectancy, task value, and cost in middle-school physical education	5
Acute enhancement of executive functions through cognitively challenging physical activity games in elementary physical education	5
Pupils’ meaningful experiences in outdoor aquatic education	5
The acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in school students	4

Chasing rainbows: An interview study of middle school principals’ whole-of-school physical activity beliefs	4
“We can do this”: Physical educators’ role breadth self-efficacy to be involved with CSPAPs from an occupational socialization perspective	4
Exploring teacher educator pedagogical decision-making about a combined pedagogy of social justice and meaningful physical education	4
Policy making and curriculum change: Physical education and health in China	4
Exploring young children's enjoyment of physical education using the Write, Draw, and Tell method	4
‘It is hard to establish boundaries’: Pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions of blurred lines between banter and bullying in secondary physical education	4
From kindergarten to primary school – Physical education as a support for students’ transition	4
Why assessment in physical education is still problematic: A critical interpretive synthesis of physical education assessment literature	4
Co-development of a gamified physical education movement competence intervention with school stakeholders	4
Engaging young people with disabilities in research about their experiences of physical education and sport: A scoping review of methodologies and methods	4
The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators	4
Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go!	4
Muslim students’ experiences of physical education: A scoping review	4
‘Now I think you have been bewitching and bewildering me’: The utilisation of Aporia in Game-Based Approaches as a means of deconstructing and reconstruc	4
Physical education teachers’ experiences of the meaning of feedback in PE	4
Psychological needs satisfaction in physical education predicts a positive development of motivation in early adolescence: A latent growth modeling study	4
Is the development of physical literacy ubiquitous in high-quality physical education?	3
Perceptions of lifelong physical activity and the physical literacy journey: The voices of children and young people across the island of Ireland	3
Growing voice: Insights from children's experiences of student voice practices in primary PE	3
Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study	3
Formative assessment of motor learning through digital tools in physical education: A systematic literature review	3
Associations between physical educators’ appearance and sex and high school pupils’ cognitive performance and perceptions of teacher characteristics	3
Assessing physical educators’ fat attitudes and PE role conceptions in relation to body weight	3
Examining the relationships among preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs, emotions, and professional identity	3
Japanese elementary teachers’ experiences during online professional development regarding involvement of immigrant parents in physical education	3
Towards precarity? The occupational situation of physical education teachers in Poland	3
Reviews in the field of sports pedagogy: A look behind the scenes	3
Gendered grouping practices in secondary physical education in England: Listening to student voice	3
A figurational analysis of secondary physical education gendered changing room procedures and practices in England	3