OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport Education and Society is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland	31
‘Shape the professionals we want to become’: coaching students’ experiences with Paralympic Skill Lab	22
Preservice teachers’ professional socialisation in physical education: negotiating pedagogic message across university coursework and school practicum	19
Colombian pre-service physical education teachers’ conceptualizations of disability when teaching disabled students: a story completion approach	18
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	15
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	15
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise	15
What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature	14
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	14
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas	13
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	13
Student perceptions across four decades: ethical, professional, and technological shifts in Swedish sport and exercise psychology education	13
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand	13
‘That's just how sport is’: naturalizing violence and biological essentialism in Croatian sports education	13
Socially-just parent intervention inquiry: challenges and potential pathways	13
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	12
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 analysis	12
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research	12
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)	12
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	12
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	11
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training	11
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	11
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 country	11
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals	11
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes	11
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system	10
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care	10
‘I know how researchers are […] taking more from you than they give you’: tensions and possibilities of youth participatory action research in sport for development	10
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China	10
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 programme	10
An analysis of resource competition in intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of field theory: a qualitative study of the Caijia Straw Dragon	10
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice	10
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter	10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education	10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity	9
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education	9
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia	9
Navigating the translator's dilemma: a critical policy analysis of Italy’s 2025 national curriculum for physical education	9
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America	9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach	9
‘Suddenly they are crying. Damm! What is this?’ – conflicting martial gendered embodiment for women karate athletes	9
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union	9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions	9
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia	9
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context	9
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers	8
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability	8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time	8
Between regulations and creativity: children’s use of affordances for movement in the classroom	8
POV: you’re gay in PE – discourses of ‘gay trauma’ in social media narratives of physical education (PE) lessons	8
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus	8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education	8
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context	8
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach	8
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people	8
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport	8
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development	8
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 Canada	8
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education	8
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure	7
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 sport	7
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 coach	7
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study	7
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education	7
Beyond marginalisation: reimagining and glocalising physical education in China	7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching	7
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	7
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport	7
The land of opportunity? Ukraine refugee parents’ reflections on their children’s sport participation in Norway	7

Agents of change: a transformative model of sport for (community) development through Know Your Rights Camp	7
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education	7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	7
Correction	7
Editorial fond farewell	7
The inability to detect change in sport organisations	6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?	6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives	6
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)	6
Youth-led community street sport in practice: balancing programme intentions and peer leadership	6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain	6
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions: stakeholder perspectives	6
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	6
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography	6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change	6
A qualitative study exploring how black football coaches experience quality coach-athlete relationships	6
How to bridge the physical education curriculum and competencies for sustainable development? pre-service teachers’ perspectives	5
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids	5
Reclaiming movement: decolonial lived experiences in a gymnastics team in Amazonas-Brazil’	5
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs	5
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	5
Historicizing bodies in schools: an interview with Inés Dussel	5
Identifying barriers and creating solutions for LGBTQIA + friendly physical education: an autoethnographic study	5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education	5
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective	5
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms	5
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden	5
‘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 Norwegians	5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature	5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football	5
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport	5
‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university	5
Professional identity of pre-service physical education and sports teachers and the role of mentor teachers	5
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys	5
Always ready to learn: understanding the learning biographies of expert academy football coaches	5
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction	5