Sport Education and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport Education and Society is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland30
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments26
What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature23
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students22
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda20
‘Shape the professionals we want to become’: coaching students’ experiences with Paralympic Skill Lab19
Preservice teachers’ professional socialisation in physical education: negotiating pedagogic message across university coursework and school practicum19
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise19
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools18
Colombian pre-service physical education teachers’ conceptualizations of disability when teaching disabled students: a story completion approach18
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty17
Lower primary school pupils’ experience of meaningfulness in physical education – a movement culture analysis15
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand15
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis15
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness15
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas13
Socially-just parent intervention inquiry: challenges and potential pathways13
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder13
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research13
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education12
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory12
Media, gender, and physical education: analyzing ‘Jornal das Moças’ and its impact on Brazilian society (1930s–1960s)12
Teaching across cultures: praxis of a South American immigrant PE teacher in an English-speaking country12
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?12
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes12
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)12
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach12
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals12
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China11
Introduction to the special issue ‘intersectionality: exploring the possibilities and challenges for intersectional research in physical education and sport’11
From inclusion to queer-trans pedagogy in school and physical education: a narrative ethnography of trans generosity11
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter11
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training11
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice11
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system11
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme10
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity10
An analysis of resource competition in intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of field theory: a qualitative study of the Caijia Straw Dragon10
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context10
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education10
Navigating the translator's dilemma: a critical policy analysis of Italy’s 2025 national curriculum for physical education9
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia9
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context9
‘Suddenly they are crying. Damm! What is this?’ – conflicting martial gendered embodiment for women karate athletes9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education9
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus9
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development9
‘I know how researchers are […] taking more from you than they give you’: tensions and possibilities of youth participatory action research in sport for development9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach9
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia9
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions9
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time8
Editorial fond farewell8
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people8
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach8
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
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study8
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education8
The land of opportunity? Ukraine refugee parents’ reflections on their children’s sport participation in Norway8
Beyond marginalisation: reimagining and glocalising physical education in China8
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport7
Agents of change: a transformative model of sport for (community) development through Know Your Rights Camp7
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach7
Correction7
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)7
Youth-led community street sport in practice: balancing programme intentions and peer leadership7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport7
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)7
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education7
Forcing, pushing, encouraging, or accepting? Parental dilemmas when teenagers seek to disengage from organised youth sport7
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography7
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching7
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education7
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?7
The inability to detect change in sport organisations7
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students7
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives6
The two continua model for life skills teaching6
A qualitative study exploring how black football coaches experience quality coach-athlete relationships6
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms6
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change6
Reclaiming movement: decolonial lived experiences in a gymnastics team in Amazonas-Brazil’6
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions: stakeholder perspectives6
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys6
‘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 Norwegians6
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain6
Professional identity of pre-service physical education and sports teachers and the role of mentor teachers6
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden6
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature5
‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university5
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport5
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania5
‘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 educa5
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football5
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport5
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches5
Athlete and coach-led education that teaches about abuse: an overview of education theory and design considerations5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education5
Identifying barriers and creating solutions for LGBTQIA + friendly physical education: an autoethnographic study5
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
The university power elite: conflict theory and faculty perceptions of intercollegiate athletics4
Te Ao Kori in New Zealand physical education: a narrative literature review4
The good, the bad and the ugly: post-structural pedagogy strikes back4
‘The fourth most important school subject’ – Norwegian school principals’ perceptions of physical education4
From vision to action: the development of physical education in UN, UNESCO, South Korea, and Taiwan, 1945–20244
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education4
Enacting a new physical education curriculum: a collaborative investigation4
Cross self-confrontation as a Vygostkian interventionist method: the case of young aspiring elite taekwondoists4
From family socioeconomic status to adolescent mass-participation team sports capital: mediating roles of adolescents’ economic, cultural, and social capitals in the sports field4
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
‘Engage me!' A multi-sport investigation of club interactions with parents at the beginning of the sporting season4
‘Listen to students because they know more’: physical education teachers’ views and experiences of teaching gender diverse students in England4
Use and application of wearable technology in football further education settings in the UK4
‘Level the playing field’ – pupils’ experiences of inclusion and social justice in physical education and health4
Beyond the scoreboard: school-based sport experiences and high school student-athlete well-being4
What gymnastics for what Physical Education for children? Discourses on the education of children’s bodies in Physical Education teacher training (Argentina, 1960)4
Rhythmanalysis in coaching: grasping the everyday rhythm(s) of coaching4
Creating value with expert martial art instructors in a social learning space: a professional development initiative4
‘I was the weird one down there’. The intersecting experiences of Norwegian international sport for development and peace volunteers4
‘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
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum4
The inclusion of students with special educational needs in physical education according to the opinion of its protagonists: a qualitative study in Spain4
Students’ experiences of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in England: a Deweyan perspective4
Playing by white rules of racial equality: student athlete experiences of racism in British university sport4
Being Water : how key ideas from the practice of Bruce Lee align with contemporary theorizing in movement skill acquisition4
Problematising young people’s bodies: a critical discourse analysis of China’s national physical education and health curriculum policies4
Strength and conditioning coaches’ perspectives of working with elite sportswomen4
Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach4
Dramaturgical analysis of a coaching team’s interactional performances: an ethnography of video-based coaching in a paralympic sporting context3
Sports participation among Norwegian youth: a study of early sporting careers3
Promoting adapted physical activity within kinesiology undergraduate programs: a RE-AIM perspective3
Sexual harassment, abuse and intimate relationships between coaches and athletes: a systematic review3
Decoloniality and anti-racist pedagogy: sport students’ experiences of enhancing their racial literacy3
Sara’s story: a narrative inquiry into the third space of physical education teacher education and school PE3
Hermanas in dialogue: amplifying female South American voices in Australian Health and Physical Education Teacher Education3
Body image in physical education: a narrative review3
‘Which barbell do you use now?' Exploring a transgender man’s embodiment through Olympic weightlifting3
Whose knowledge matters? Physical education teacher educator views and experiences of visual impairment simulations3
Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite3
High performance team sport coaches’ perspectives of their use of in-session core coaching practices to stimulate player learning3
Pupils’ experiences of aquatic education as a meaningful activity in physical education3
School Physical Education and Teacher Education: Collaborative Redesign for the Twenty-first Century3
Understanding in-situ complexities: a scoping review on the trends of qualitative method design and practice in coach–athlete dialogue studies3
Doing trans-national research in physical education: reflections on a China–New Zealand research collaboration3
Are kinesiology programs oppressive? a content analysis of Canadian university kinesiology curricula and websites3
What keeps them off the playing field: a textual analysis of Chinese female pre-service kindergarten teachers’ adolescent sports life history3
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
Stronger together: towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex3
Regimes of hope: livelihood, social mobility, and autonomy in Sport for Development programs in the Global South3
Niels Bukh’s gymnastics in Argentinian Physical Education. an analysis of translations in the instances of debates and local curricular production (1938–1956)3
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE: turning to criticality3
Evolving discourses on student-athlete policies in South Korea: a genealogical analysis3
The role of human rights in sport education: a call towards a new curriculum3
‘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
The atypical physical educator: Bordieuan insights into teacher’s body narratives and values construction in pedagogical practice3
Examining the legacy of the ‘old boys club’ in high performance coaching3
Enacting democratisation of health and physical education teacher education: examining two teacher educators’ experiences3
Winning-at-all-costs: high-performance athletes learn to conform to the sport ethic3
Exploring the role and challenges of AI tools in physical education: qualitative insights from in-service, trainee, and future teachers3
Menstruation in PE. Exploring students’ perspectives in online forums3
Behind-the-scenes insights from undertaking intersectional research in the field of sport and physical activity2
The ‘Body at a distance': language, authority and community in the digitalization of postural yoga2
‘It is just a lever for success in life’: identity construction and perceived roles of elite para-athletes2
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
Physical capital acquisition: a case of Chinese Wushu teenagers2
Making daily movement work: teachers’ perspectives on institutional challenges and opportunities in Swedish primary school2
‘It feels human … ’: reflective race research in kinesiology2
Critical re-signification of Olympic values by youth facilitators: friendship, respect and peace with children and adolescents in refugee situations2
When I walk through the stadium’s gate, I have to be a man among the others’: doing gender by female Tunisian football fans2
Exploring physical education teachers’ perceptions of sustainable development goals and education for sustainable development2
Promoting mental health and well-being in physical education: a qualitative study on teachers and lecturers’ perceptions and practices in Malta2
Navigating identity development as an ‘international inexperienced’ early career health and physical education teacher educator: a self-study2
Troubling the human in Swedish physical education and health: a diffractive analysis of material-discursive entanglements2
Tensions in enacting democratic approaches in physical education teacher education2
Sensory methodologies and disabled sporting embodiment: implications for research and practice in physical education2
Crossing the line: conceptualising and rationalising bullying and banter in male adolescent community football2
A pedagogical examination of the potential of Iyengar yoga for trauma2
Habitus, capital and the shaping of sporting careers: a qualitative study of Norwegian youth2
How education policy actors interpret, portray and contest risk in children’s physically active play in schools: a framing analysis2
From the school gym to adulthood: gendered pathways of physical education and post-divorce physical activity in China2
Understanding the governmental rationalities in the ‘integration of sports and education’ in Chinese schools2
Stigma, menstrual etiquette, and identity work: examining female exercisers’ experiences during menstruation2
Redeeming race: Anton Obholzer, physical education and perfecting the white body, 1937–19392
The influence of school location, enrolment and socio-economic status on participation and success in inter-school swimming and track and field athletics competitions2
Physical education teacher education: disrupting ableism in gymnastics2
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethnic China2
Asian female international scholar experiences in kinesiology: a collaborative autoethnography2
Asian minds and bodies: a fresh lens on Asian student engagement in physical education2
Promoting an equity-based approach for social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: international teacher educators’ perspectives2
The construction of youth mental health and wellbeing: coloniality, colonised thinking and the drive to ‘fix’ mental health2
Exploring how and why a sports-based multi-component intervention works for disengaged students: a longitudinal realist evaluation2
Norwegian physical education teachers’ assessment after the introduction of a new curriculum – LK202
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: an intersectional study2
Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education2
Structuring play in physical education2
The senses/sensing relationship in physical literacy: generating a worldly (re)enchantment for physical education2
Complicity, trauma, love: an exploration of the experiences of LGBTQIA+ members from physical education spaces1
Union is strength. Teacher associationims and professional training in the First Argentinean Congress of Physical Education (1943)1
Enskilment into the coaching landscape : towards a situated approach to coach education in Australian football1
Traditional childhood play in Jodhpur: a qualitative analysis of oral recollections1
Using narrative biography to explore how the formation of ‘funds of knowledge’ mediate coach developer practice: ‘ I don’t want it to be a post-code lottery whether you get a good coach1
‘Man can make great natatorial progress’: swimming as a white sporting racial project1
International College of Reviewers 2021–221
Education for sustainability and physical education: a systematic scoping review1
Social class and the mobilisation of capital in physical education-related undergraduate programmes1
Teacher-coach-mom: a collaborative autoethnographic exploration into the clashing cultures of physical education and school sport1
A PE teacher’s tale: journeying from teacher education to teaching practice in physical education1
Living within and outside a disciplinary bubble: a Foucauldian analysis of Brazilian gymnasts’ experiences in boarding school1
Horses and hierarchies: a story of young equestrians’ participation rights through a cultural hegemonic lens1
Exploring the re-legitimisation of messages for health and physical education within contemporary English and Welsh curricula reform1
A scoping review of students’ changing room experiences in the context of physical education1
‘Hearing their voice’: the experiences of physical education with pupils diagnosed with severe learning disabilities1
Could caring be the engine to better orchestrate? An interpretative case study of a world championship futsal coaching team1
Girls and women in umpiring: retention and participation limited by hostile cultural contexts1
‘Writing is not like doing’: girls’ views and perceptions of physical education provision in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia1
‘She was a rare diamond’: teachers’ experiences of teaching a visually impaired student in a friluftsliv programme1
The instrumentalisation of physical education by the Estado Novo Regime in Portugal (1933–1974)1
Soccer: the only way to be a boy in Spain? narratives from a Spanish primary school on the influence of playground soccer in shaping masculinities and gender relations1
A figurational analysis of Health and/or Physical Education teacher educators’ conceptualisations of policy, and their sociogenesis1
A qualitative case study of primary classroom teachers’ perceived value of physical education in New Zealand1
Understanding the development of physical education professionals’ policy capacity1
Telling the future: uncovering tensions of competitive running and fatherhood through letters from future selves1
Finally … the team! Navigating obstacles in girls’ access to football1
Negotiations, agreements, and understandings: reconceptualising football referee decision-making in sport as a social relational activity1
Reorientating grassroots coach education – the selection-box metaphor for curriculum design1
Pupil voice in physical education and the desire for (in)visibility1
Exploring how social media shapes the personal learning environments of Chinese pre-service physical education teachers1
Exploring athletes’ socio-cultural experiences of support when living with persistent post-concussion syndrome1
Sport scientistsin-becoming: from fulfilling one’s potential to finding our way along1
The role of healthy lifestyle technologies in supporting young adults’ healthy active lifestyles1
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