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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	54
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	30
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland	25
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	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	23
Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda	22
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	21
A systematic scoping review of physical education experiences from the perspective of LGBTQ+ students	19
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas	18
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	17
‘Happiness through movement’: physical education for democratic citizenship in mid-century Aotearoa New Zealand	17
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	17
Case study on evaluation in the formative dynamics of school soccer: results-driven arbitrariness	17
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)	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?	16
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	16
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	15
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	15
Teaching across cultures: praxis of a South American immigrant PE teacher in an English-speaking country	14
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter	14
Community football pedagogies in Colombia: exploring situated learning and epistemic justice	14
Trauma-informed abuse education in sport: engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care	13
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals	13
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training	13

Media, gender, and physical education: analyzing ‘Jornal das Moças’ and its impact on Brazilian society (1930s–1960s)	12
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America	11
Introduction to the special issue ‘intersectionality: exploring the possibilities and challenges for intersectional research in physical education and sport’	11
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes	11
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China	11
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity	11
From inclusion to queer-trans pedagogy in school and physical education: a narrative ethnography of trans generosity	11
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education	10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme	10
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union	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
An analysis of resource competition in intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of field theory: a qualitative study of the Caijia Straw Dragon	9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context	9
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: a figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education	9
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	9
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people	9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach	9
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy: a biographical assessment method for the physical activity and health context	9
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach	9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions	9
Critical reflections on the design, delivery and analysis of education in sport for development	8
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia	8
The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education	8
Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers	8
Understanding gender disproportion and influences on subject choice in Physical Health Education: a British Columbia high school case study	8
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia	8
Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport	8
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability	8
Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder	8
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time	8
‘She thought I was her gardener’: the life history of one Latino/Hispanic American college basketball coach	8
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education	8
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus	8
Editorial fond farewell	8
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	7
The transformative potential of trans*-inclusive PE: the experiences of PE teachers	7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	7
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education	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
Correction	7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?	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
Embodying policy work: an exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE)	7
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
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach	6

Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs	6
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms	6
Referees on the wire: a positive youth development perspective of rugby referees’ verbal communication in childrens’ sport	6
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)	6
Facing hegemonic masculine structures: experiences of gay men studying physical activity and sport science in Spain	6
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography	6
The inability to detect change in sport organisations	6
From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys	6
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport	6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	6
Entanglement, irritation and routinisation: the embodied pedagogy of digital activity tracking	6
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
The two continua model for life skills teaching	6
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden	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
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum	5
Creating value with expert martial art instructors in a social learning space: a professional development initiative	5
Te Ao Kori in New Zealand physical education: a narrative literature review	5
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania	5
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches	5
A qualitative inquiry into the workplace experiences of adapted physical education teachers	5
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids	5
The space between two closets: Erin Parisi mountaineering and changing the trans* narrative	5
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football	5
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers: an ethnographic study	5
The university power elite: conflict theory and faculty perceptions of intercollegiate athletics	5
Problematising young people’s bodies: a critical discourse analysis of China’s national physical education and health curriculum policies	5
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram	5
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction	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
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective	5
Cross self-confrontation as a Vygostkian interventionist method: the case of young aspiring elite taekwondoists	5
‘I was the weird one down there’. The intersecting experiences of Norwegian international sport for development and peace volunteers	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
Strength and conditioning coaches’ perspectives of working with elite sportswomen	5
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education	5
Athlete and coach-led education that teaches about abuse: an overview of education theory and design considerations	5
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature	5