Sport Education and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport Education and Society 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland31
‘Shape the professionals we want to become’: coaching students’ experiences with Paralympic Skill Lab22
Preservice teachers’ professional socialisation in physical education: negotiating pedagogic message across university coursework and school practicum19
Colombian pre-service physical education teachers’ conceptualizations of disability when teaching disabled students: a story completion approach18
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools15
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty15
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise15
What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature14
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments14
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas13
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory13
Student perceptions across four decades: ethical, professional, and technological shifts in Swedish sport and exercise psychology education13
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand13
‘That's just how sport is’: naturalizing violence and biological essentialism in Croatian sports education13
Socially-just parent intervention inquiry: challenges and potential pathways13
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)12
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis12
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education12
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?12
Lower primary school pupils’ experience of meaningfulness in physical education – a movement culture analysis12
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research12
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach11
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training11
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder11
Media, gender, and physical education: analyzing ‘Jornal das Moças’ and its impact on Brazilian society (1930s–1960s)11
Teaching across cultures: praxis of a South American immigrant PE teacher in an English-speaking country11
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals11
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes11
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system10
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care10
‘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
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China10
Introduction to the special issue ‘intersectionality: exploring the possibilities and challenges for intersectional research in physical education and sport’10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme10
An analysis of resource competition in intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of field theory: a qualitative study of the Caijia Straw Dragon10
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice10
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education10
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context9
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity9
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education9
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia9
Navigating the translator's dilemma: a critical policy analysis of Italy’s 2025 national curriculum for physical education9
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach9
‘Suddenly they are crying. Damm! What is this?’ – conflicting martial gendered embodiment for women karate athletes9
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions9
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education8
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers8
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time8
Between regulations and creativity: children’s use of affordances for movement in the classroom8
POV: you’re gay in PE – discourses of ‘gay trauma’ in social media narratives of physical education (PE) lessons8
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education8
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context8
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach8
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people8
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport8
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development8
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 Canada8
Editorial fond farewell7
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure7
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)7
Forcing, pushing, encouraging, or accepting? Parental dilemmas when teenagers seek to disengage from organised youth sport7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?7
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach7
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study7
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education7
Beyond marginalisation: reimagining and glocalising physical education in China7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching7
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England7
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
Agents of change: a transformative model of sport for (community) development through Know Your Rights Camp7
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport7
Correction7
A qualitative study exploring how black football coaches experience quality coach-athlete relationships6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students6
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?6
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives6
Youth-led community street sport in practice: balancing programme intentions and peer leadership6
The inability to detect change in sport organisations6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain6
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions: stakeholder perspectives6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change6
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)6
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms5
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden5
‘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 Norwegians5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football5
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport5
‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university5
Professional identity of pre-service physical education and sports teachers and the role of mentor teachers5
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys5
Always ready to learn: understanding the learning biographies of expert academy football coaches5
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction5
How to bridge the physical education curriculum and competencies for sustainable development? pre-service teachers’ perspectives5
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids5
Reclaiming movement: decolonial lived experiences in a gymnastics team in Amazonas-Brazil’5
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs5
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework5
Historicizing bodies in schools: an interview with Inés Dussel5
Identifying barriers and creating solutions for LGBTQIA + friendly physical education: an autoethnographic study5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education5
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective5
The good, the bad and the ugly: post-structural pedagogy strikes back4
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania4
‘Listen to students because they know more’: physical education teachers’ views and experiences of teaching gender diverse students in England4
Cross self-confrontation as a Vygostkian interventionist method: the case of young aspiring elite taekwondoists4
‘I was the weird one down there’. The intersecting experiences of Norwegian international sport for development and peace volunteers4
Building the feminist futsal project: ‘where is feminism?’4
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers: an ethnographic study4
Rhythmanalysis in coaching: grasping the everyday rhythm(s) of coaching4
Strength and conditioning coaches’ perspectives of working with elite sportswomen4
Being Water : how key ideas from the practice of Bruce Lee align with contemporary theorizing in movement skill acquisition4
What gymnastics for what Physical Education for children? Discourses on the education of children’s bodies in Physical Education teacher training (Argentina, 1960)4
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram4
Creating value with expert martial art instructors in a social learning space: a professional development initiative4
The university power elite: conflict theory and faculty perceptions of intercollegiate athletics4
‘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 educa4
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport4
Peer and teacher support alongside personal and social responsibility: key factors in reducing bullying in physical education classes4
‘The fourth most important school subject’ – Norwegian school principals’ perceptions of physical education4
Enacting a new physical education curriculum: a collaborative investigation4
‘Engage me!' A multi-sport investigation of club interactions with parents at the beginning of the sporting season4
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum4
Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach4
Te Ao Kori in New Zealand physical education: a narrative literature review4
From family socioeconomic status to adolescent mass-participation team sports capital: mediating roles of adolescents’ economic, cultural, and social capitals in the sports field4
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches4
‘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
Problematising young people’s bodies: a critical discourse analysis of China’s national physical education and health curriculum policies4
Perfect swings and broken selves: A narrative ethnography of long-Term development in junior golf4
Winning-at-all-costs: high-performance athletes learn to conform to the sport ethic3
Stepping into new roles: role transition experiences of non-specialist physical education teachers in rural schools3
Whose knowledge matters? Physical education teacher educator views and experiences of visual impairment simulations3
Regimes of hope: livelihood, social mobility, and autonomy in Sport for Development programs in the Global South3
Negotiating the ‘Q’ and the ‘q’: conceptualising (Q/q) quality in physical education teaching (Q/qPET)3
Niels Bukh’s gymnastics in Argentinian Physical Education. an analysis of translations in the instances of debates and local curricular production (1938–1956)3
From vision to action: the development of physical education in UN, UNESCO, South Korea, and Taiwan, 1945–20243
Playing by white rules of racial equality: student athlete experiences of racism in British university sport3
Use and application of wearable technology in football further education settings in the UK3
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE: turning to criticality3
Exploring the role and challenges of AI tools in physical education: qualitative insights from in-service, trainee, and future teachers3
‘Which barbell do you use now?' Exploring a transgender man’s embodiment through Olympic weightlifting3
The role of human rights in sport education: a call towards a new curriculum3
Promoting adapted physical activity within kinesiology undergraduate programs: a RE-AIM perspective3
Doing trans-national research in physical education: reflections on a China–New Zealand research collaboration3
Sexual harassment, abuse and intimate relationships between coaches and athletes: a systematic review3
‘We are all learning together’: how youth mentors perceive their role in an after-school program3
The importance of trust in mentoring relationships for women’s outdoor leadership development3
Pupils’ experiences of aquatic education as a meaningful activity in physical education3
Sports participation among Norwegian youth: a study of early sporting careers3
‘Level the playing field’ – pupils’ experiences of inclusion and social justice in physical education and health3
Menstruation in PE. Exploring students’ perspectives in online forums3
Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite3
Challenges facing retired athletes in China in their transition to physical education teachers3
(How) should environmental sustainability be a part of physical education? Analysing Swedish teachers’ voices through a Bernsteinian perspective3
Understanding in-situ complexities: a scoping review on the trends of qualitative method design and practice in coach–athlete dialogue studies3
School Physical Education and Teacher Education: Collaborative Redesign for the Twenty-first Century3
Evolving discourses on student-athlete policies in South Korea: a genealogical analysis3
Listening to the affective dynamics of women’s para-sport coaching experiences in high-performance sport3
High performance team sport coaches’ perspectives of their use of in-session core coaching practices to stimulate player learning3
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education3
The inclusion of students with special educational needs in physical education according to the opinion of its protagonists: a qualitative study in Spain3
Students’ experiences of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in England: a Deweyan perspective3
Beyond the scoreboard: school-based sport experiences and high school student-athlete well-being3
Dramaturgical analysis of a coaching team’s interactional performances: an ethnography of video-based coaching in a paralympic sporting context3
Enacting democratisation of health and physical education teacher education: examining two teacher educators’ experiences3
Sensory methodologies and disabled sporting embodiment: implications for research and practice in physical education2
Examining the risk-safety paradox in outdoor education from a Taoist perspective: a case study of a Chinese outdoor education experience2
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethn2
Exploring physical education teachers’ perceptions of sustainable development goals and education for sustainable development2
Redeeming race: Anton Obholzer, physical education and perfecting the white body, 1937–19392
How education policy actors interpret, portray and contest risk in children’s physically active play in schools: a framing analysis2
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
The construction of youth mental health and wellbeing: coloniality, colonised thinking and the drive to ‘fix’ mental health2
Behind-the-scenes insights from undertaking intersectional research in the field of sport and physical activity2
Promoting an equity-based approach for social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: international teacher educators’ perspectives2
The challenges and transformation of martial arts education and culture in Guangzhou in modern times (1840–1949)2
Are kinesiology programs oppressive? a content analysis of Canadian university kinesiology curricula and websites2
Stigma, menstrual etiquette, and identity work: examining female exercisers’ experiences during menstruation2
The atypical physical educator: Bordieuan insights into teacher’s body narratives and values construction in pedagogical practice2
Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education2
Decoloniality and anti-racist pedagogy: sport students’ experiences of enhancing their racial literacy2
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
The influence of school location, enrolment and socio-economic status on participation and success in inter-school swimming and track and field athletics competitions2
Structuring play in physical education2
Legitimising or not? A systematic review on the perceived and actual impacts of elite sport on values and value learning2
Habitus, capital and the shaping of sporting careers: a qualitative study of Norwegian youth2
Navigating identity development as an ‘international inexperienced’ early career health and physical education teacher educator: a self-study2
A pedagogical examination of the potential of Iyengar yoga for trauma2
Troubling the human in Swedish physical education and health: a diffractive analysis of material-discursive entanglements2
Making daily movement work: teachers’ perspectives on institutional challenges and opportunities in Swedish primary school2
Physical capital acquisition: a case of Chinese Wushu teenagers2
Critical re-signification of Olympic values by youth facilitators: friendship, respect and peace with children and adolescents in refugee situations2
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: an intersectional study2
When I walk through the stadium’s gate, I have to be a man among the others’: doing gender by female Tunisian football fans2
‘It is just a lever for success in life’: identity construction and perceived roles of elite para-athletes2
What keeps them off the playing field: a textual analysis of Chinese female pre-service kindergarten teachers’ adolescent sports life history2
Examining the legacy of the ‘old boys club’ in high performance coaching2
Sara’s story: a narrative inquiry into the third space of physical education teacher education and school PE2
Asian minds and bodies: a fresh lens on Asian student engagement in physical education2
Asian female international scholar experiences in kinesiology: a collaborative autoethnography2
Physical education teacher education: disrupting ableism in gymnastics2
‘It feels human … ’: reflective race research in kinesiology2
Exploring heutagogy in a tertiary coach developer course2
Understanding the governmental rationalities in the ‘integration of sports and education’ in Chinese schools2
Cooperative and solidarity-based learning through a Freirean lens: a case study in a Brazilian public school in a precarious context2
Exploring how and why a sports-based multi-component intervention works for disengaged students: a longitudinal realist evaluation2
Crossing the line: conceptualising and rationalising bullying and banter in male adolescent community football2
From the school gym to adulthood: gendered pathways of physical education and post-divorce physical activity in China2
The ‘Body at a distance': language, authority and community in the digitalization of postural yoga2
Norwegian physical education teachers’ assessment after the introduction of a new curriculum – LK202
Tensions in enacting democratic approaches in physical education teacher education2
Hermanas in dialogue: amplifying female South American voices in Australian Health and Physical Education Teacher Education2
Stronger together: towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex2
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