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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: sport volunteering, educational leadership and social transformation	40
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	31
Habitus and practice: social reproduction and trajectory in outdoor education and higher education	26
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda	24
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise	21
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	19
Gender order through social censure: an examination of social exclusion in sport coaching	18
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students	17
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	17
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	17
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	16
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research	16
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?	15
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	15
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness	14
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	14
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)	14
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas	14
‘But in PEH it still feels extra unfair’: students’ experiences of equitable assessment and grading practices in physical education and health (PEH)	14
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	13
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	13
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training	12
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care	12
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China	12
From inclusion to queer-trans pedagogy in school and physical education: a narrative ethnography of trans generosity	12

‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes	12
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter	11
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America	11
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context	10
‘She thought I was her gardener’: the life history of one Latino/Hispanic American college basketball coach	10
By the assemblage: physical education teachers’ encounters of a state teacher accountability system	10
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach	10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity	10
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union	10
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context	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
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education	10
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people	9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions	8
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach	8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time	8
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability	8
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia	8
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia	8
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education	8
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers	8
Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder	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
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education	7
‘It’s an experiential thing’: the discursive construction of learning in high-performance coach education	7
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)	7
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study	7
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development	7
Editorial fond farewell	7
‘My perspective has changed on an entire group of people’: undergraduate students’ experiences with the Paralympic Skill Lab	7
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education	7
International College of Reviewers 2020–2021	7
Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector	7
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport	7
The transformative potential of trans*-inclusive PE: the experiences of PE teachers	7
Disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education	7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	6
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach	6
Entanglement, irritation and routinisation: the embodied pedagogy of digital activity tracking	6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	6
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	6
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching	6
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?	6
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography	6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives	6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?	6
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport	6
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education	6
A realist evaluation of the use of Flipgrid to facilitate collaborative online learning and reflection in sport coaching	6

A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	6
Physical Literacy across the World	6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain	5
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs	5
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden	5
The space between two closets: Erin Parisi mountaineering and changing the trans* narrative	5
Athlete and coach-led education that teaches about abuse: an overview of education theory and design considerations	5
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys	5
The two continua model for life skills teaching	5
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change	5
Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism	5
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport	5
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids	5
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms	5
PE teacher selection and employment examination: a reinventive institution within teacher education and socialisation	5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature	5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education	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