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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland	30
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	26
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	23
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students	22
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda	20
‘Shape the professionals we want to become’: coaching students’ experiences with Paralympic Skill Lab	19
Preservice teachers’ professional socialisation in physical education: negotiating pedagogic message across university coursework and school practicum	19
‘Cos not everyone wants to talk, they prefer to do, to move’: circuits of trans embodied pleasure and inclusion in sport and physical exercise	19
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	18
Colombian pre-service physical education teachers’ conceptualizations of disability when teaching disabled students: a story completion approach	18
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	17
Lower primary school pupils’ experience of meaningfulness in physical education – a movement culture analysis	15
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand	15
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	15
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness	15
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas	13
Socially-just parent intervention inquiry: challenges and potential pathways	13
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	13
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research	13
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 country	12
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 programmes	12
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)	12
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	12

Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals	12
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	12
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	12
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China	11
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 generosity	11
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter	11
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training	11
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice	11
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system	11
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care	10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme	10
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America	10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity	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
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context	10
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union	10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education	10
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education	9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context	9
‘Suddenly they are crying. Damm! What is this?’ – conflicting martial gendered embodiment for women karate athletes	9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education	9
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus	9
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development	9
‘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	9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach	9
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia	9
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability	9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions	9
Navigating the translator's dilemma: a critical policy analysis of Italy’s 2025 national curriculum for physical education	9
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia	9
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport	8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time	8
Editorial fond farewell	8
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people	8
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach	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
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study	8
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers	8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education	8
The land of opportunity? Ukraine refugee parents’ reflections on their children’s sport participation in Norway	8
Beyond marginalisation: reimagining and glocalising physical education in China	8
Agents of change: a transformative model of sport for (community) development through Know Your Rights Camp	7
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach	7
Correction	7
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 leadership	7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	7
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 education	7
Forcing, pushing, encouraging, or accepting? Parental dilemmas when teenagers seek to disengage from organised youth sport	7
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography	7
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching	7
‘I play on a club team': examining the development of the physically active habitus in early primary education	7
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure	7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?	7
The inability to detect change in sport organisations	7
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	7
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport	7
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change	6
Reclaiming movement: decolonial lived experiences in a gymnastics team in Amazonas-Brazil’	6
Precarity in inclusive school sport and extracurricular provisions: stakeholder perspectives	6
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys	6
‘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	6
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 Spain	6
Professional identity of pre-service physical education and sports teachers and the role of mentor teachers	6
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden	6
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective	6
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives	6
The two continua model for life skills teaching	6
A qualitative study exploring how black football coaches experience quality coach-athlete relationships	6
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms	6
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs	6
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	6
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction	5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football	5
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport	5
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches	5
Athlete and coach-led education that teaches about abuse: an overview of education theory and design considerations	5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education	5
Identifying barriers and creating solutions for LGBTQIA + friendly physical education: an autoethnographic study	5
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
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram	5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature	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
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport	5
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania	5
‘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 educa	5