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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland37
‘Shape the professionals we want to become’: coaching students’ experiences with Paralympic Skill Lab20
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty19
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools17
What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature16
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments16
Student perceptions across four decades: ethical, professional, and technological shifts in Swedish sport and exercise psychology education16
Preservice teachers’ professional socialisation in physical education: negotiating pedagogic message across university coursework and school practicum15
Historicising the body in school sport, health and physical education15
Colombian pre-service physical education teachers’ conceptualizations of disability when teaching disabled students: a story completion approach15
‘That's just how sport is’: naturalizing violence and biological essentialism in Croatian sports education15
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise15
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas14
Experiencing diversity in an international PETE course: a qualitative study with students from three European countries14
Lower primary school pupils’ experience of meaningfulness in physical education – a movement culture analysis13
Exploring the body in contemporary worlds. An interview with David Le Breton13
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach13
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?13
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand13
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)13
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder13
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research12
Socially-just parent intervention inquiry: challenges and potential pathways12
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training12
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory12
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education12
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China12
Teaching across cultures: praxis of a South American immigrant PE teacher in an English-speaking country12
Ableist imaginaries and silent exclusions: parents’ perspectives of inclusive physical education for students with visual impairments in Nepal12
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis12
Media, gender, and physical education: analyzing ‘Jornal das Moças’ and its impact on Brazilian society (1930s–1960s)12
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter11
Introduction to the special issue ‘intersectionality: exploring the possibilities and challenges for intersectional research in physical education and sport’11
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice11
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals11
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system10
An analysis of resource competition in intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of field theory: a qualitative study of the Caijia Straw Dragon10
The ‘weight’ of stories for disrupting body discourses among PE and sport science university students10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity10
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme10
Navigating the translator's dilemma: a critical policy analysis of Italy’s 2025 national curriculum for physical education10
Learning under constraint: how organisational structures shape what can be learned in high-performance sport10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education10
Professional learning through the lens of boundary crossing in an international physical education and sport pedagogy project10
‘Suddenly they are crying. Damm! What is this?’ – conflicting martial gendered embodiment for women karate athletes10
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union10
Everything changes: planning in physical education from a sociocultural perspective in Argentina10
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach9
POV: you’re gay in PE – discourses of ‘gay trauma’ in social media narratives of physical education (PE) lessons9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education9
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions9
Between regulations and creativity: children’s use of affordances for movement in the classroom9
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability9
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time9
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America9
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education9
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context9
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
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach8
Reconfiguring competence and participation in physical education: an inclusive sociomaterial study of school–university orienteering8
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure8
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people8
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia8
Editorial fond farewell8
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 meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education8
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)8
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study8
Negotiating gender, culture, and school sport: teachers’ perspectives on participation and equity in rural primary schools in Fiji7
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?7
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
Forcing, pushing, encouraging, or accepting? Parental dilemmas when teenagers seek to disengage from organised youth sport7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers7
Beyond marginalisation: reimagining and glocalising physical education in China7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching7
Correction7
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students6
A qualitative study exploring how black football coaches experience quality coach-athlete relationships6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change6
Youth-led community street sport in practice: balancing programme intentions and peer leadership6
Reclaiming movement: decolonial lived experiences in a gymnastics team in Amazonas-Brazil’6
New national standards for initial teacher training in physical education in Chile: reflections from educational communities6
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework6
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education6
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)6
Family sports planning in urban China: exploring parental sports ideology, parental sports management and family sports practices in adolescent sports participation6
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions: stakeholder perspectives6
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?6
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective5
From degrees of embodiment to the quality of coupling: reorienting embodied pedagogy in physical education5
Normativity and oppression: cis and trans students’ experiences in physical education5
‘The fat body has always been capable!’ Digital activism for the inclusion of fat people in physical education and sport5
Professional identity of pre-service physical education and sports teachers and the role of mentor teachers5
‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university5
Identifying barriers and creating solutions for LGBTQIA + friendly physical education: an autoethnographic study5
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography5
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives5
Historicizing bodies in schools: an interview with Inés Dussel5
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
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms5
The inability to detect change in sport organisations5
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden5
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs5
‘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
How to bridge the physical education curriculum and competencies for sustainable development? pre-service teachers’ perspectives4
‘I was the weird one down there’. The intersecting experiences of Norwegian international sport for development and peace volunteers4
Te Ao Kori in New Zealand physical education: a narrative literature review4
Rhythmanalysis in coaching: grasping the everyday rhythm(s) of coaching4
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers: an ethnographic study4
Peer and teacher support alongside personal and social responsibility: key factors in reducing bullying in physical education classes4
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches4
Building the feminist futsal project: ‘where is feminism?’4
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport4
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education4
The university power elite: conflict theory and faculty perceptions of intercollegiate athletics4
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram4
‘Listen to students because they know more’: physical education teachers’ views and experiences of teaching gender diverse students in England4
Strength and conditioning coaches’ perspectives of working with elite sportswomen4
Problematising young people’s bodies: a critical discourse analysis of China’s national physical education and health curriculum policies4
Cross self-confrontation as a Vygostkian interventionist method: the case of young aspiring elite taekwondoists4
‘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
‘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
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport4
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature4
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids4
Problem representations and the gender phantasm in Australian and Canadian school sport and physical education policies for trans and gender diverse inclusion4
Creating value with expert martial art instructors in a social learning space: a professional development initiative4
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum4
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania4
Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach4
From family socioeconomic status to adolescent mass-participation team sports capital: mediating roles of adolescents’ economic, cultural, and social capitals in the sports field4
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football4
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction4
Stepping into new roles: role transition experiences of non-specialist physical education teachers in rural schools3
(How) should environmental sustainability be a part of physical education? Analysing Swedish teachers’ voices through a Bernsteinian perspective3
‘The elephant in the room is, I’ve never seen them run’: exploring the experiences, practices, and development of online running coaches3
The role of human rights in sport education: a call towards a new curriculum3
‘Which barbell do you use now?' Exploring a transgender man’s embodiment through Olympic weightlifting3
Health and physical education curriculum: a dialogue among Ibero-American countries3
Sexual harassment, abuse and intimate relationships between coaches and athletes: a systematic review3
Doing trans-national research in physical education: reflections on a China–New Zealand research collaboration3
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE: turning to criticality3
What gymnastics for what Physical Education for children? Discourses on the education of children’s bodies in Physical Education teacher training (Argentina, 1960)3
The inclusion of students with special educational needs in physical education according to the opinion of its protagonists: a qualitative study in Spain3
Sports participation among Norwegian youth: a study of early sporting careers3
‘Engage me!' A multi-sport investigation of club interactions with parents at the beginning of the sporting season3
Use and application of wearable technology in football further education settings in the UK3
Perfect swings and broken selves: A narrative ethnography of long-Term development in junior golf3
Evolving discourses on student-athlete policies in South Korea: a genealogical analysis3
Enacting democratisation of health and physical education teacher education: examining two teacher educators’ experiences3
Promoting adapted physical activity within kinesiology undergraduate programs: a RE-AIM perspective3
Beyond the riverbank: the opportunities of adopting a strengths-based approach to health within Norwegian PETE3
Challenges facing retired athletes in China in their transition to physical education teachers3
Niels Bukh’s gymnastics in Argentinian Physical Education. an analysis of translations in the instances of debates and local curricular production (1938–1956)3
Pupils’ experiences of aquatic education as a meaningful activity in physical education3
‘We are all learning together’: how youth mentors perceive their role in an after-school program3
Menstruation in PE. Exploring students’ perspectives in online forums3
School Physical Education and Teacher Education: Collaborative Redesign for the Twenty-first Century3
‘The fourth most important school subject’ – Norwegian school principals’ perceptions of physical education3
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education3
Being Water : how key ideas from the practice of Bruce Lee align with contemporary theorizing in movement skill acquisition3
The good, the bad and the ugly: post-structural pedagogy strikes back3
Beyond the scoreboard: school-based sport experiences and high school student-athlete well-being3
Playing by white rules of racial equality: student athlete experiences of racism in British university sport3
High performance team sport coaches’ perspectives of their use of in-session core coaching practices to stimulate player learning3
Whose knowledge matters? Physical education teacher educator views and experiences of visual impairment simulations3
Understanding in-situ complexities: a scoping review on the trends of qualitative method design and practice in coach–athlete dialogue studies3
Winning-at-all-costs: high-performance athletes learn to conform to the sport ethic3
The importance of trust in mentoring relationships for women’s outdoor leadership development3
Exploring the role and challenges of AI tools in physical education: qualitative insights from in-service, trainee, and future teachers3
Dining with Michel Serres: physical education and an ethics of the parasite3
Listening to the affective dynamics of women’s para-sport coaching experiences in high-performance sport3
Students’ experiences of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in England: a Deweyan perspective3
Negotiating the ‘Q’ and the ‘q’: conceptualising (Q/q) quality in physical education teaching (Q/qPET)3
‘Level the playing field’ – pupils’ experiences of inclusion and social justice in physical education and health3
Enacting a new physical education curriculum: a collaborative investigation3
From vision to action: the development of physical education in UN, UNESCO, South Korea, and Taiwan, 1945–20243
Regimes of hope: livelihood, social mobility, and autonomy in Sport for Development programs in the Global South3
Dramaturgical analysis of a coaching team’s interactional performances: an ethnography of video-based coaching in a paralympic sporting context3
Behind-the-scenes insights from undertaking intersectional research in the field of sport and physical activity2
The construction of youth mental health and wellbeing: coloniality, colonised thinking and the drive to ‘fix’ mental health2
Asian minds and bodies: a fresh lens on Asian student engagement in physical education2
A pedagogical examination of the potential of Iyengar yoga for trauma2
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
Norwegian physical education teachers’ assessment after the introduction of a new curriculum – LK202
Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education2
Embodied socialisation of youth in a depopulation-affected rural environment2
The challenges and transformation of martial arts education and culture in Guangzhou in modern times (1840–1949)2
The atypical physical educator: Bordieuan insights into teacher’s body narratives and values construction in pedagogical practice2
Decoloniality and anti-racist pedagogy: sport students’ experiences of enhancing their racial literacy2
Exploring how and why a sports-based multi-component intervention works for disengaged students: a longitudinal realist evaluation2
Beyond the provider-recipient binary: reframing reciprocity in adapted physical activity service-learning2
Examining the risk-safety paradox in outdoor education from a Taoist perspective: a case study of a Chinese outdoor education experience2
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 capital acquisition: a case of Chinese Wushu teenagers2
Understanding the governmental rationalities in the ‘integration of sports and education’ in Chinese schools2
Troubling the human in Swedish physical education and health: a diffractive analysis of material-discursive entanglements2
Habitus, capital and the shaping of sporting careers: a qualitative study of Norwegian youth2
Crossing the line: conceptualising and rationalising bullying and banter in male adolescent community football2
‘It feels human … ’: reflective race research in kinesiology2
Stigma, menstrual etiquette, and identity work: examining female exercisers’ experiences during menstruation2
When I walk through the stadium’s gate, I have to be a man among the others’: doing gender by female Tunisian football fans2
Sensory methodologies and disabled sporting embodiment: implications for research and practice in physical education2
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
Are kinesiology programs oppressive? a content analysis of Canadian university kinesiology curricula and websites2
Exploring physical education teachers’ perceptions of sustainable development goals and education for sustainable development2
Cooperative and solidarity-based learning through a Freirean lens: a case study in a Brazilian public school in a precarious context2
A fitness obligation or indispensable pastime? A capability-informed inquiry into the developmental impacts of tiyu(体育) on college students in multi-ethn2
Hermanas in dialogue: amplifying female South American voices in Australian Health and Physical Education Teacher Education2
‘It is just a lever for success in life’: identity construction and perceived roles of elite para-athletes2
Critical re-signification of Olympic values by youth facilitators: friendship, respect and peace with children and adolescents in refugee situations2
Negotiating relationships with food, the body, and physical activity: who is the healthiest of them all?2
Making daily movement work: teachers’ perspectives on institutional challenges and opportunities in Swedish primary school2
The ‘Body at a distance': language, authority and community in the digitalization of postural yoga2
From technological tools to technological bodies: rethinking the digitalisation of school physical education in China through Don Ihde’s postphenomenology2
Asian female international scholar experiences in kinesiology: a collaborative autoethnography2
Sara’s story: a narrative inquiry into the third space of physical education teacher education and school PE2
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: an intersectional study2
From the school gym to adulthood: gendered pathways of physical education and post-divorce physical activity in China2
Stronger together: towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex2
How education policy actors interpret, portray and contest risk in children’s physically active play in schools: a framing analysis2
Promoting an equity-based approach for social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: international teacher educators’ perspectives2
Legitimising or not? A systematic review on the perceived and actual impacts of elite sport on values and value learning2
Politicising histories of sporting bodies: an interview with Douglas Booth1
‘There is more room to do it at home’: constructing children’s physical activity spaces1
‘For the first time in my career, I exploded’: a situational approach to emotional deviance in ‘difficult’ PE teaching context1
Health promotion in the Israeli education system: a policy analysis through an intersectional lens1
Sports participation as a reflection of social inclusion in youth: a holistic exploration of sport within young people’s lives1
‘The enemy was within:’ how young female football players challenged barriers in their sport practice through the activist approach1
Investigating the cultural sensitivity of athletic talent: comparisons between the U.S.A. and European sporting environments1
Conquering fear to pedal forward: emotions and learning in high-risk sports1
Teacher-coach-mom: a collaborative autoethnographic exploration into the clashing cultures of physical education and school sport1
Exploring how social media shapes the personal learning environments of Chinese pre-service physical education teachers1
Enacting freedom through eugenic rationalities of health and the body: education in Puerto Rico between 1900–19031
Internationalisation at home … but now what ? Early career academics navigating borders, boundaries and ‘grietas’1
How did we get here; a historical and social exploration of the construction of English FA coach education1
Curricular transition in UFSC’S Physical Education (1980s): professors’ perceptions and educational policy impact1
‘Writing is not like doing’: girls’ views and perceptions of physical education provision in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia1
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