OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the changes of physical education in the age of Covid-19	80
Perceived teachers’ behavior and students’ engagement in physical education: the mediating role of basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation	57
Pedagogical principles that support the prioritisation of meaningful experiences in physical education: conceptual and practical considerations	41
Heteronormativity meets queering in physical education: the views of PE teachers and LGBTIQ+ students	35
The influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review	35
An ecological dynamics conceptualisation of physical ‘education’: Where we have been and where we could go next	27
Development of a self-report scale to assess children’s perceived physical literacy	26
Experiences of teaching and learning in K-12 physical education during COVID-19: an international comparative case study	25
Mental imagery training programs for developing sport-specific motor skills: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
Advocating for Service-Learning as a pedagogical model in Physical Education: towards an activist and transformative approach	23
The use of digital media in primary school PE – student perspectives on product-oriented ways of lesson staging	20
Infusing disability into coach education and development: a critical review and agenda for change	20
Promoting instructional alignment in physical education teacher education	19
The effects of gamification on the motivation and basic psychological needs of secondary school physical education students	18
Nonlinear Pedagogy and its implications for practice in the Singapore PE context	17
Developing evidence-informed principles for trauma-aware pedagogies in physical education	16
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) for professional development: meeting the needs and expectations of physical education teachers and youth sport coaches	16
What do we know about pedagogical models in physical education so far? An umbrella review	16
Motor competence assessment in physical education – convergent validity between fundamental movement skills and functional movement assessments in adolescence	14
‘Feeling better’: embodied self-knowledge as an aspect of movement capability	14
PE at Home: keeping the ‘E’ in PE while home-schooling during a pandemic	14
Games-based movement education: developing a sense of self, belonging, and community through games	12
Synthesis and literature review of different mixed methods designs in pedagogical research in physical education	12
Examining the concept of engagement in physical education	12
Rethinking the classification of games and sports in physical education: a response to changes in sport and participation	12

Learning in the educational landscapes of juggling, unicycling, and dancing	12
Cognitively enriched physical activity may foster motor competence and executive function as early as preschool age: a pilot trial	11
‘We united to defend ourselves and face our struggles’: nurturing a physical education teachers’ community of practice in a precarious context	11
The importance of satisfying children’s basic psychological needs in primary school physical education for PE-motivation, and its relations with fundamental motor and PE-related skills	11
Differences in perceived physical literacy between teachers delivering physical education in schools: classroom teachers vs physical education teachers	11
The relations between students’ causality orientations and teachers’ interpersonal behaviors with students’ basic need satisfaction and frustration, intention to physical activity, and well-being	11
Mapping the physical literacy controversy: an analysis of key actors within scholarly literature	10
Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice	10
Physical education from LGBTQ+ students’ perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies	10
The gendered social representation of physical education and sport science higher education in Spain	10
Taking action for social justice in HPE classrooms through explicit critical pedagogies	9
The art of the question: the structure of questions posed by youth soccer coaches during training	9
Social justice knowledge construction among physical education teacher educators: the value of personal, professional, and educational experiences	9
Regulation of tactical learning in team sports – the case of the tactical-decision learning model	9
Coaching player decision making in rugby union: exploring coaches espoused theories and theories in use as an indicator of effective coaching practice	9
‘Free but not free-free’: teaching creative aspects of dance in physical education teacher education	9
Exploring Australian teachers’ perceptions of physical literacy: a mixed-methods study	9
‘The teacher makes us feel like we are a family’: students from refugee backgrounds’ perceptions of physical education in Swedish schools	8
Fit for the job? How corporeal expectations shape physical education teachers’ understandings of content, pedagogy, and the purposes of physical education	8
Service-learning experiences for pre-service teachers: cultural competency and behavior management challenges when working with a diverse low-income community	8
Feminists against fad, fizz ed: a poetic commentary exploring the notion of Joe Wicks as physical education	8
Stakeholder perceptions of physical literacy assessment in primary school children	8
How do high-level youth soccer players approach and solve game problems? The role of strategic understanding	8
Physical activity during physical education in elementary school in China: the role of teachers	8
What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review	8
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in football: the MASTER Coaching randomised control trial	7
How is embodiment in physical education theoretically conceptualised? A concept analysis	7
Motor competence, motivation and enjoyment in physical education to profile children in relation to physical activity behaviors	7
‘Can we play the real sport?’ Co-creating a student-centered after-school sports club	7
Physical activity during school-time and fundamental movement skills: a study among preschoolers with and without physical education classes	7
Understanding the complexity of learning through movement	7
Practising the practice. Towards a theory of practising in physical education from a Bildung-theoretical perspective	7
Effects of a training course on creation of an empowering motivational climate in physical education: a quasi-experimental study	7
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	7
Effectiveness of a lesson study intervention on teacher behaviour and student motivation in physical education lessons	7
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	7
Pre-service teachers’ negotiation of meaning in their Physical Education Teacher Education programme: a two-year follow-up ethnography	6
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	6
The student's experience of teacher support in French vocational high-school classes with difficulties in school engagement in physical education: interest of mixed methods research	6
Observing physical education teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles using a circumplex approach: how does it relate to student outcomes?	6
Learning about ‘inclusive’ pedagogies through a special school placement	6
Everyone is welcome under the big top: a multiple case study on circus arts instruction in physical education	6
Effectiveness of a Mastery Climate Cognitive-Motor Skills School-based Intervention in children living in poverty: Motor and Academic performance, self-perceptions, and BMI	6
Training programmes to learn how to ride a bicycle independently for children and youths: a systematic review	6
Students’ motivational experiences across profiles of perceived need-supportive and need-thwarting teaching behaviors in physical education	6
Cracks in the narrative: Black and Latinx pre-service PE teachers in predominantly white PETE programs	6
‘Fighting like a girl ’: qualitative analysis of the gendered movement learning in the Spanish Olympic karate team	5
How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review	5
Effects of gamified didactic with exergames on the psychological variables associated with promoting physical exercise: results of a natural experiment run in primary schools	5
Supporting PETE students to implement an alternative pedagogy	5

Social-ecological and biographical perspectives of principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programs: a person-centered analysis	5
Fostering pre-service teachers’ knowledge of ‘teaching games for understanding’ via video-based vs. text-based teaching examples	5
Training effects of artificial rules on youth soccer team tactical behavior	5
Enactive and ecological dynamics approaches: complementarity and differences for interventions in physical education lessons	5
Toward the virtuous mover: a neo-Aristotelian interpretation of physical education	5
Pedagogical support for the Test of Gross Motor Development – 3 for children with neurotypical development and with Autism Spectrum Disorder: validity for an animated mobile application	5
Introduction to the PESP special issue: ‘Developing movement capability in physical education’	5
Operationalizing physical literacy through sport education in a university physical education program	5
Scholars’ perspectives of positive youth development in coach education for high school sports	5
PLitPE: an intervention for physical literacy enriched pedagogy in Canadian elementary school physical education classes	5
Level of opposition constrains offensive performance in consecutive game situations. An analysis according to game principles	5
The frustration of novelty and basic psychological needs as predictors of maladaptive outcomes in physical education	5
Practising collaboration in model implementation in physical education	5
Narrative as a learning tool for coaches of athletes with a disability: using stories to translate research into practice	4
Transforming physical education: an analysis of context and resources that support curriculum transformation and enactment	4
Exploring physical education teachers’ awareness of observed teaching behaviour within pedagogies of affect	4
Perseverance in motor tasks: the impact of different types of positive feedback	4
Education and professionalization of Physical Education Teachers: research trends and developments in German-language literature in relation to Anglophone perspectives	4
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	4
Social and emotional learning for underserved children through a sports-based youth development program grounded in teaching personal and social responsibility	4
Two ways teachers can develop greater harmonious passion	4
Risk and safety management in physical education: teachers’ knowledge	4
Development of prosocial competencies in PETE and Sport Science students. Social justice, Service-Learning and Physical Activity in cultural diversity contexts	4
Developing a socially-just teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) approach: a pedagogy for social justice for physical education (teacher education)	3
Development of fundamental motor skills between 2006 and 2016 in Dutch primary school children	3
Developing the pedagogical practice of physical education pre-service teachers in gymnastics: exploring gendered embodiment	3
An analysis of mechanisms underlying social goals in physical education: a comparison between ordinary and special classes	3
Are gender-stereotyped attitudes and beliefs in fathers and daughters associated with girls’ perceived motor competence?	3
Exploring coping strategies in physical education. A qualitative case study	3
Students’ perceptions of fitness testing in physical education across primary, secondary, and pre-university school levels: a motivational profiles perspective	3
Assessed movement competence through the lens of Bourdieu – a longitudinal study of a developed taste for sport, PE and physical activity	3
First-nation Australian children’s interpretation of a pictorial questionnaire designed to assess physical literacy	3
Relationships among peer- relatedness, self-confidence, peer victimization, social anxiety and school satisfaction in American high school students	3
Positive youth development through sport and physical education: a systematic review of empirical research conducted with grade 5 to 12 children and youth	3
Getting ‘more and more comfortable’: using an Activist Approach in a dance PE content course	3
Challenges in learning aerobic and anaerobic concepts: an interpretative understanding from the cognitive load theory perspective	3
How much circus is allowed? – Challenges and hindrances when embracing risk in physical education	3
Developing a love for playing games: a clarification of why Digital Video Games Approach is not Gamification	3
The emotional labor of physical education teachers in ‘difficult contexts’: an inductive analysis of the most significant moments of their career	3
Is meaningful physical education and social justice a complimentary combination? A physical education teacher educator collaborative self-study	3
A longitudinal examination of the influence of winning or losing with motivational climate as a mediator on enjoyment, perceived competence, and intention to be physically active in youth basketball	3
Emancipation or simulation? The pedagogy of ignorance and action research in PETE	3
A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England	3
Assessing the motivational climates in early physical education curricula underpinned by motor learning theory: SAMPLE-PE	3
Exploring the phenomenological meanings of assessment in physical education through primary teachers’ lived experiences	3
Coach experiences of formal coach education developed by national governing bodies: a systematic review	3
The association between physical education and academic achievement in other curriculum learning areas: A review of literature	3
Generalization and maintenance of skill trials from physical education to recess in elementary school	3
Physical education teachers’ assessment practices in health education	3
deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE	3