OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sport Education and Society is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
A reflexive thematic analysis on the lived experiences of elite Gaelic games student athletes at third level education in Ireland	37
‘Shape the professionals we want to become’: coaching students’ experiences with Paralympic Skill Lab	20
Exploring perceived mattering in physical education teacher education faculty	19
The business of Olympic education: interactions between the state, schools, teachers, academics, and external providers in Chinese public schools	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	16
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: primary school children’s visual representations and interpretations of PE teacher embodiments	16
Student perceptions across four decades: ethical, professional, and technological shifts in Swedish sport and exercise psychology education	16
Historicising the body in school sport, health and physical education	15
Colombian pre-service physical education teachers’ conceptualizations of disability when teaching disabled students: a story completion approach	15
‘That's just how sport is’: naturalizing violence and biological essentialism in Croatian sports education	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
Preservice teachers’ professional socialisation in physical education: negotiating pedagogic message across university coursework and school practicum	15
Outsourcing in HPE: finding cost-efficiencies in specialist curriculum areas	14
Experiencing diversity in an international PETE course: a qualitative study with students from three European countries	14
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 Zealand	13
Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe)	13
Frenemies, Wannabies and Jocks: navigating the physical cultural capital ladder	13
Lower primary school pupils’ experience of meaningfulness in physical education – a movement culture analysis	13
Exploring the body in contemporary worlds. An interview with David Le Breton	13
‘They resist, we resist’: towards the post-coach	13
Lesson study in physical education: a collaborative and contextualised approach to initial teacher training	12
Exploring early career physical education teachers’ professional identity construction in rural China: insights from socio-ecological perspective and practice architectures theory	12
Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education	12
‘Is it necessary to be male?’: A qualitative study of female kindergarten teachers’ views on physical activity for young children in China	12

Teaching across cultures: praxis of a South American immigrant PE teacher in an English-speaking country	12
Ableist imaginaries and silent exclusions: parents’ perspectives of inclusive physical education for students with visual impairments in Nepal	12
School-based physical activity interventions: a discourse analysis	12
Media, gender, and physical education: analyzing ‘Jornal das Moças’ and its impact on Brazilian society (1930s–1960s)	12
A systematic review of figurational sociology within physical education research	12
Socially-just parent intervention inquiry: challenges and potential pathways	12
The blurred line in elite sport: exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter	11
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 justice	11
Defining ‘inclusion': scholars’ use and operationalization in major physical education journals	11
The ‘weight’ of stories for disrupting body discourses among PE and sport science university students	10
Using the developmental histories of elite rugby union players to identify ways to cultivate creativity	10
‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes	10
Exploring the factors that influence primary school community football physical education coaches’ readiness to engage in a life skills coach development programme	10
Navigating the translator's dilemma: a critical policy analysis of Italy’s 2025 national curriculum for physical education	10
Learning under constraint: how organisational structures shape what can be learned in high-performance sport	10
‘What makes you the boss?’ Understanding student perceptions of social status in sport education	10
Professional learning through the lens of boundary crossing in an international physical education and sport pedagogy project	10
‘Suddenly they are crying. Damm! What is this?’ – conflicting martial gendered embodiment for women karate athletes	10
Using a constraints-led approach to provide the conditions to cultivate creativity in rugby union	10
Everything changes: planning in physical education from a sociocultural perspective in Argentina	10
Mapping physical education in Northern Ireland: exploring the structure and discourses of the PE curriculum in a segregated school system	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	9
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions	9
Between regulations and creativity: children’s use of affordances for movement in the classroom	9
Changing perspectives: possible impacts of media related to the Paralympic Games on children's views of disability	9
‘You don’t want to do things alone’: children in low to middle schools talk about physical activity during recess time	9
Sport as a tool for social justice: an analysis of critical pedagogy and community capacity building in Central America	9
Approaches and distances between bioethics and school physical education	9
The sports career of a Brazilian Chess Grandmaster: an heir who achieved success through his fragmented habitus	9
Teacher-student relationships in higher education: reflections from an adventure sport context	9
The transformational possibilities of liberal vocationalism: a case study of post-year 10 Outdoor Education in Western Australia	9
Health-Based Physical Education and Sport Education: the staging of a hybridization from a collaborative approach	9
POV: you’re gay in PE – discourses of ‘gay trauma’ in social media narratives of physical education (PE) lessons	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	8
Integrating culturally inspired practices in health and physical education in China's higher education: a Yin-Yang approach	8
Reconfiguring competence and participation in physical education: an inclusive sociomaterial study of school–university orienteering	8
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure	8
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people	8
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia	8
Editorial fond farewell	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 meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education	8
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 study	8
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

Forcing, pushing, encouraging, or accepting? Parental dilemmas when teenagers seek to disengage from organised youth sport	7
Teaching sport and social justice: an investigation into the experiences of university lecturers	7
Beyond marginalisation: reimagining and glocalising physical education in China	7
Recruitment overhaul of Black athletes in college sport	7
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching	7
Correction	7
Negotiating gender, culture, and school sport: teachers’ perspectives on participation and equity in rural primary schools in Fiji	7
Applying the concept of ‘PE-for-sport-literacy’: exploring pre-service teacher identities with a new way of teaching sport	7
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?	7
A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework	6
Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students	6
On the wisdom of not- knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach	6
Youth-led community street sport in practice: balancing programme intentions and peer leadership	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
New national standards for initial teacher training in physical education in Chile: reflections from educational communities	6
Discourses of resistance: pre-service teachers’ reflections on the challenges of inclusion in physical education	6
Re-configuration of female corporeality: school sport in Andalusia during the transition and consolidation of democracy (1975–1990)	6
A qualitative study exploring how black football coaches experience quality coach-athlete relationships	6
Establishing growth-oriented, caring relationships in sport-based interventions: employer perspectives on sport coaching for social change	6
Family sports planning in urban China: exploring parental sports ideology, parental sports management and family sports practices in adolescent sports participation	6
‘Yes, everyone is blindfolded but that doesn’t make it equal': the intersectional experiences of visually impaired women footballers in England	6
Australian Aboriginal children talking culture: what does ‘seeing’ Country and the ‘child spirit’ mean for health educators?	6
The inability to detect change in sport organisations	5
Exploring the intersection between students’ gender and migration background in relation to the equality of outcome in physical education in Sweden	5
Examining the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in Australian sports clubs	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
Youth soccer coaches’ practice, agency, and professionalism: an intrapersonal identity perspective	5
From degrees of embodiment to the quality of coupling: reorienting embodied pedagogy in physical education	5
Normativity and oppression: cis and trans students’ experiences in physical education	5
‘The fat body has always been capable!’ Digital activism for the inclusion of fat people in physical education and sport	5
Professional identity of pre-service physical education and sports teachers and the role of mentor teachers	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
Identifying barriers and creating solutions for LGBTQIA + friendly physical education: an autoethnographic study	5
Transitioning from PE teacher to PE teacher educator through a critical friendship – from ‘I’ to ‘WE’: a collaborative autoethnography	5
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace: performance analysts’ perspectives	5
Historicizing bodies in schools: an interview with Inés Dussel	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
How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms	5
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education: the case of a safe sport education programme in Lithuania	4
Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach	4
From family socioeconomic status to adolescent mass-participation team sports capital: mediating roles of adolescents’ economic, cultural, and social capitals in the sports field	4
Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football	4
LGBTQIA+ topics in physical education: an introduction	4
How to bridge the physical education curriculum and competencies for sustainable development? pre-service teachers’ perspectives	4
‘I was the weird one down there’. The intersecting experiences of Norwegian international sport for development and peace volunteers	4
Te Ao Kori in New Zealand physical education: a narrative literature review	4
Rhythmanalysis in coaching: grasping the everyday rhythm(s) of coaching	4
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers: an ethnographic study	4
Peer and teacher support alongside personal and social responsibility: key factors in reducing bullying in physical education classes	4
Exploring life skills knowledge and influences on holistic coaching behaviours of primary school community football Physical Education coaches	4
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’ sport	4
Visually impaired students’ views on peer tutoring in integrated physical education	4
The university power elite: conflict theory and faculty perceptions of intercollegiate athletics	4
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram	4
‘Listen to students because they know more’: physical education teachers’ views and experiences of teaching gender diverse students in England	4
Strength and conditioning coaches’ perspectives of working with elite sportswomen	4
Problematising young people’s bodies: a critical discourse analysis of China’s national physical education and health curriculum policies	4
Cross self-confrontation as a Vygostkian interventionist method: the case of young aspiring elite taekwondoists	4
‘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 education	4
‘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	4
"I shouldn't just hide in the darkness": youth and parent experiences in wheelchair sport	4
Fictional girls who play to play: pushing on narratives of competition in young adult sports literature	4
‘It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’: a response to Myszka, Yearby and Davids	4
Problem representations and the gender phantasm in Australian and Canadian school sport and physical education policies for trans and gender diverse inclusion	4
Creating value with expert martial art instructors in a social learning space: a professional development initiative	4
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum	4