OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Merging observational and interview data to study and improve the adaptability of the products of didactic engineering to ordinary teaching in physical education	45
‘The elephants in the room’: the multiple challenges that limit the impact of school-based professional learning for physical education teachers	45
Enriching organisational design for games: the case of badminton in physical education	29
Replay the game and teach for understanding: exploring the use of video tagging in an invasion games unit	28
Physical education podcasts: a thriving community of practice or a one-way mode of communication?	26
Exploring practitioner inquiry among health and physical education teachers: insights from teachers’ perspectives	23
The lived experience of sport education: a web of interconnected experiences	22
Producing the well and skilled body: a critical discourse analysis of health and physical education curriculum policy in Aotearoa New Zealand	22
Facilitating loose parts play with elementary school staff: professional development and implementation from the perspective of the facilitator	18
The influence of physical education on the use of healthy lifestyle technologies: insights from young adults’ digital PE experiences and future recommendations	18
Reimagining school-university partnerships in physical education: a collaborative design to approach democratic professionalism	17
Intervention fidelity: multiple strategies to design, implement, and assess mastery motivational climate behavioral interventions	17
Student choice and barriers to physical activity in Latino boys in the REACH after-school program	17
Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences	17
Positive youth development through sport and physical education: a systematic review of empirical research conducted with grade 5 to 12 children and youth	16
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	16
Developing social and school facilitators for a positive school transition through a Sport Education and Service-Learning programme	15
Effects of a unit of circus activities through a hybridization of cooperative learning and self-made material: a students, teachers and parents combined perspective	14
Urban–rural differences in TGfU-based physical education at Taiwanese primary schools from the perspective of cultural capital	14
Chess training for improving executive functions and invasion game tactical behavior of college student athletes: a preliminary investigation	14
Gender preference of conceptions toward caloric-balanced living	13
A pre-longitudinal screen of performance in an integrated assessment of throwing and catching competence	13
The paradox of experience: generational analysis of AI integration in physical education using the iTPACK framework	12
Walk the walk or talk the talk: elite coaches espoused thoughts and actions	12
deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE	12

Health-based physical education in an elementary school: effects on physical self-concept, motivation, fitness and physical activity	12
Transforming physical education: an analysis of context and resources that support curriculum transformation and enactment	12
A qualitative examination on the preparation of preservice physical education teachers for assessment in secondary teaching methods courses in the US	11
Teachers’ experiences of enacting pedagogical models and models-based practice: a systematic mixed study review	11
Exploring students experiences of secondary school Physical Education in England	11
Teachers’ perceptions of implementing sport education in Saudi middle schools	11
Everyone is welcome under the big top: a multiple case study on circus arts instruction in physical education	11
Two teachers’ positioning toward Meaningful PE: agency, sensemaking, and ownership	11
All physical and no education? – Gender, sexuality and the ‘affective atmosphere’ in physical education	11
Sport pedagogy and feminism: what is known and what is missing? Findings from a scoping review	10
Developing a love for playing games: a clarification of why Digital Video Games Approach is not Gamification	10
Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women	10
Generalization and maintenance of skill trials from physical education to recess in elementary school	10
Exploring coping strategies in physical education. A qualitative case study	9
An uphill struggle: an exploration of parents’, carers’, and support workers’ impressions of inclusivity for pupils with learning disabilities in Physical Education	9
Environmental constraints: a comparative analysis of children’s swimming competence in different aquatic environments	9
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	8
Developing embodied competence while becoming a PE teacher: PETE students’ embodied experiences and reflections after micro-teaching	8
The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions	8
Early childhood physical activity parenting and sport club participation as predictors of perceived motor competence – a three-year longitudinal study	8
Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education	8
Critical application of TGfU in sports coaching	8
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	8
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	8
Students’ perception of dominant objectives in Physical Education: the Purpose of Physical Education Scale	8
Mapping the physical literacy controversy: an analysis of key actors within scholarly literature	7
The othering of trans, inter and non-binary students in physical education: an intersectional perspective	7
Chinese students’ experiences of ‘high-stakes’ assessment: the role of fitness testing	7
Game performance assessment instrument in physical education: a systematic review from 2015 to 2024	7
Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice	7
How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review	7
Synthesis and literature review of different mixed methods designs in pedagogical research in physical education	7
Signature pedagogies of teacher education in physical education: a scoping review	7
The association between physical education and academic achievement in other curriculum learning areas: A review of literature	7
Cognitively enriched physical activity may foster motor competence and executive function as early as preschool age: a pilot trial	7
Autistic adolescents and their experiences of physical education at school	7
Towards an integration of physical activity and environmental awareness: analysis of students’ activity in physical education	7
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	7
Digital technology in game-based approaches: video tagging in football in PE	6
Initial fidelity of a powered mobility intervention: a case report	6
Exploring the impact of a coach development programme through the perspectives of Saudi Arabian sport coaches	6
Social and emotional learning for underserved children through a sports-based youth development program grounded in teaching personal and social responsibility	6
How do we teach about ethnic and cultural diversity in PETE? A discourse analysis of interviews from Norway, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada	6
‘They don’t have bad intentions.’ The disciplinary power of heteronormative communication in upper secondary Polish physical education – a case study	6
Practising the practice. Towards a theory of practising in physical education from a Bildung-theoretical perspective	6
Making sense of the alignment of social justice beliefs, theory, and pedagogy: being and becoming a physical education teacher educator for social justice	6
Physical literacy is associated with children's adherence to physical activity guidelines during COVID-19	5
The enactment of the Socially-Just Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (SJ-TPSR) approach in physical education teacher education: Teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ perspectives	5
The critical thinking approach to tactical development in team sports: a review of the work of Jean Francis Gréhaigne	5
Reflecting on student reflections in physical education practice: moving beyond a theory-and-practice divide	5

Towards a refined insight into physical education teachers’ autonomy-supportive, structuring, and controlling style to the importance of student motivation: a person-centered approach	5
What do we know about pedagogical models in physical education so far? An umbrella review	5
Exploring elementary classroom teachers' practices of movement integration: the ten MI styles	5
Practising collaboration in model implementation in physical education	5
Critical contextual factors of sustainable online teaching: learning the lessons of pandemic times from physical education teachers’ and school administrators’ perspectives	5
Motor competence assessment in physical education – convergent validity between fundamental movement skills and functional movement assessments in adolescence	4
First-nation Australian children’s interpretation of a pictorial questionnaire designed to assess physical literacy	4
Observing physical education teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles using a circumplex approach: how does it relate to student outcomes?	4
Restorative justice as transformative practice in physical education scholarship	4
Six teaching strategies to support meaningful PE experiences in early primary schools – results from an action research project	4
Enactive and ecological dynamics approaches: complementarity and differences for interventions in physical education lessons	4
Cognitive activation in preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs–insights into different stages of professional socialization	4
Developing a socially-just teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) approach: a pedagogy for social justice for physical education (teacher education)	4
How pupils’ playfulness creates possibilities for pleasure and learning in physical education	4
Exploring Movement Composition in the transition from physical education teacher education to school PE	4
A multi-model approach to models-based practice: students’ learning experiences throughout lower-secondary school physical education	4
Training programmes to learn how to ride a bicycle independently for children and youths: a systematic review	4
Toward the virtuous mover: a neo-Aristotelian interpretation of physical education	4
Learning to cycle: a constraint-led intervention programme using different cycling task constraints	4
Selecting (or not) physical education as an elective subject: Spanish high school students’ views	4
Sensitivity, shared purpose, and learning community: a case study of a Brazilian sport program with children and young people from socially vulnerable backgrounds	4
‘Even with the craziness, it worked’: PE teachers working in and with an Activist Approach	4
‘Free but not free-free’: teaching creative aspects of dance in physical education teacher education	4
Stakeholder perceptions of the feasibility of e-portfolio-based assessment of physical literacy in primary health and physical education	3
The positive impact of an in-service training program in the prevention and management of indiscipline in secondary school physical education in the Maghreb region	3
Tracking relations between development of tactical knowledge and tactical behaviour: a season-long action research study	3
Development of the situational emotional labor and deviance model: relevance in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy	3
Stakeholders’ perceptions of within-class ability grouping in a primary school physical education unit	3
Exploring Australian teachers’ perceptions of physical literacy: a mixed-methods study	3
Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices	3
Benefits of a daily physical activity program supervised by a physical and health education teacher: utility of a mixed methods study using an ecological approach	3
The emotional labor of physical education teachers in ‘difficult contexts’: an inductive analysis of the most significant moments of their career	3
A didactic approach to the adjustments involved in physical and sports education. Comparison of examples on the use of forms-representations in the teaching of throws in athletics	3
‘I have normalised being treated differently’. Analysis of the experiences of foreign students in Physical Education	3
A mixed methods analysis of a yearlong intercultural competence curriculum strand	3
Opinions on grading and difficulties encountered by physical education and health teachers in relation to assessment	3
Impact of a model-based paralympic sports project in physical education on primary school pupils’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and intentions toward inclusion of peers with physical disabilities	3
Co-creating strategies for enacting trauma-aware pedagogies with pre-service physical education teachers	3
What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review	3
Lessons learned teaching social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: a self-study	3
Pre-service teachers content-related analyses of a physical education learning task	3
Embodied learning in physical education: making space for aesthetic cultivation in yoga pedagogy	2
Effects of cooperative learning in youth athletics’ motivational climate, peer relationships and self-concept	2
Parental engagement and implementation fidelity in a mHealth motor skills intervention for young children	2
A pilot study of early childhood teachers’ views on teaching a structured physical education curriculum: challenges and recommendations	2
Social-ecological and biographical perspectives of principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programs: a person-centered analysis	2
Modifying physical activities for maximizing learning opportunities: perspectives of Finnish physical educators and special educators on inclusive teaching strategies	2
Promoting the veridicality of physical self-concept through self-assessment: an intervention study in primary school physical education	2
‘There’s nothing wrong with me’: experiencing Physical Education at the intersections of disability, ethnicity and gender	2
Preparing pre-service physical education teachers as practitioner researchers	2
Does it matter whether physical education teachers combine structure with autonomy support rather than control? Differences in motivation for teaching and work-related outcomes	2
Pedagogical touch: exploring the micro-realities of coach–athlete sensory interactions in high-performance sports	2
PLitPE: an intervention for physical literacy enriched pedagogy in Canadian elementary school physical education classes	2
‘Facilitating change from within’: investigating students’ experiences of using core reflection in physical education teacher education	2
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in football: the MASTER Coaching randomised control trial	2
Assessing the motivational climates in early physical education curricula underpinned by motor learning theory: SAMPLE-PE	2
Getting ‘more and more comfortable’: using an Activist Approach in a dance PE content course	2
A narrative inquiry into the physical education and youth sport experiences of gay male rugby players: a Bourdieuian perspective	2
Coach experiences of formal coach education developed by national governing bodies: a systematic review	2
On the other side of advocacy: stories from non-physical education decision-makers	2
A model fidelity check in cooperative learning research in physical education	2
Controlling the display of videos in a physical education context: effects on learning outcomes and situational interest	2
Effects of gamified didactic with exergames on the psychological variables associated with promoting physical exercise: results of a natural experiment run in primary schools	2
Supporting preservice teachers to implement an alternative physical education pedagogy on practicum	2
Physical education from LGBTQ+ students’ perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies	2
A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England	2
Discontinuity, risk, patience, and appeal: existential aspects of practising in physical education	2
Teachers’ actor-oriented transfer of movement pedagogy knowledge in physical education	2
Development of fundamental motor skills between 2006 and 2016 in Dutch primary school children	2
Two ways teachers can develop greater harmonious passion	2
Exploring the ‘teachable moments’ of questioning during training: a work-based coach development programme affecting behaviour change	2