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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Replay the game and teach for understanding: exploring the use of video tagging in an invasion games unit	42
What keeps FLAME lit? Comparing two modes of implementation of a physical education-based intervention to improve motor competence among Irish adolescents	31
Enriching organisational design for games: the case of badminton in physical education	28
Practising the practice. Towards a theory of practising in physical education from a Bildung-theoretical perspective	25
Learning in high-performance action sports: insights into new and evolving contexts	23
Relationships between social interactions and acquisitions: do mixed methods provide added value in physical education contexts?	20
Physical education podcasts: a thriving community of practice or a one-way mode of communication?	19
Secondary school students’ perception of health and teaching of health dimensions in physical education	17
Exploring Australian teachers’ perceptions of physical literacy: a mixed-methods study	17
Versatility and pedagogical models in physical education	16
Initial fidelity of a powered mobility intervention: a case report	16
Critical contextual factors of sustainable online teaching: learning the lessons of pandemic times from physical education teachers’ and school administrators’ perspectives	15
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	14
How do we teach about ethnic and cultural diversity in PETE? A discourse analysis of interviews from Norway, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada	13
The hows and whys of gendered grouping practices in primary physical education in England	12
How do high-level youth soccer players approach and solve game problems? The role of strategic understanding	12
Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education	11
Are gender-stereotyped attitudes and beliefs in fathers and daughters associated with girls’ perceived motor competence?	11
Exploring the impact of a coach development programme through the perspectives of Saudi Arabian sport coaches	11
Emergence of physical literacy in physical education: some curricular repercussions	11
Merging observational and interview data to study and improve the adaptability of the products of didactic engineering to ordinary teaching in physical education	10
A gymnastics coaches’ professional development program: exploring a needs-focused social learning space	10
Developing embodied competence while becoming a PE teacher: PETE students’ embodied experiences and reflections after micro-teaching	10
Positive and negative effects of close-knit relationships among teachers in a community of practice	9
Basketball shorts, plantation food, and ponytail weaves: Black teachers’ experiences of becoming and being a Physical Education teacher	9

‘They don’t have bad intentions.’ The disciplinary power of heteronormative communication in upper secondary Polish physical education – a case study	9
Reflecting on student reflections in physical education practice: moving beyond a theory-and-practice divide	9
Pedagogical approaches to health-related physical education (PE) in the context of digitalisation – a scoping review	9
Operationalizing physical literacy through sport education in a university physical education program	8
The effects of gamification on the motivation and basic psychological needs of secondary school physical education students	8
Motor competence, motivation and enjoyment in physical education to profile children in relation to physical activity behaviors	8
Experiences of teaching and learning in K-12 physical education during COVID-19: an international comparative case study	8
PE at Home: keeping the ‘E’ in PE while home-schooling during a pandemic	8
Critical application of TGfU in sports coaching	8
The ‘ Écolo’coteaux ’ programme: an outdoor and cycling school-based intervention on daily physical activities opportunities	7
Social and emotional learning for underserved children through a sports-based youth development program grounded in teaching personal and social responsibility	7
Exploring elementary classroom teachers' practices of movement integration: the ten MI styles	7
‘I have normalised being treated differently’. Analysis of the experiences of foreign students in Physical Education	7
What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review	7
Exploring student reflection in physical education practice	7
The critical thinking approach to tactical development in team sports: a review of the work of Jean Francis Gréhaigne	7
What do we know about pedagogical models in physical education so far? An umbrella review	7
The influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review	7
A narrative inquiry into the physical education and youth sport experiences of gay male rugby players: a Bourdieuian perspective	6
Analysis of a community club coach developer project	6
A mixed methods analysis of a yearlong intercultural competence curriculum strand	6
Coach experiences of formal coach education developed by national governing bodies: a systematic review	6
An outdoor educator’s self-study of enacting a pedagogical model for outdoor adventure education to facilitate affective learning experiences	6
Pre-service teachers content-related analyses of a physical education learning task	6
Facilitating loose parts play with elementary school staff: professional development and implementation from the perspective of the facilitator	6
Practising collaboration in model implementation in physical education	6
Motor skills intervention: conceptual and operational model and the determination of fidelity indexes	6
Understanding the complexity of learning through movement	6
Discontinuity, risk, patience, and appeal: existential aspects of practising in physical education	6
Lessons learned teaching social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education: a self-study	6
The lived experience of sport education: a web of interconnected experiences	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
Teachers’ sensemaking in implementation of Meaningful Physical Education	5
‘There’s nothing wrong with me’: experiencing Physical Education at the intersections of disability, ethnicity and gender	5
‘it’s about bringing people together’: one middle school physical education teacher’s attempt at deploying character education	5
Physical literacy is associated with children's adherence to physical activity guidelines during COVID-19	5
How much circus is allowed? – Challenges and hindrances when embracing risk in physical education	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
Reimagining school-university partnerships in physical education: a collaborative design to approach democratic professionalism	5
Stakeholders’ perceptions of within-class ability grouping in a primary school physical education unit	5
Early childhood physical activity parenting and sport club participation as predictors of perceived motor competence – a three-year longitudinal study	5
Producing the well and skilled body: a critical discourse analysis of health and physical education curriculum policy in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
How is embodiment in physical education theoretically conceptualised? A concept analysis	5
Exploring the phenomenological meanings of assessment in physical education through primary teachers’ lived experiences	5
Development of prosocial competencies in PETE and Sport Science students. Social justice, Service-Learning and Physical Activity in cultural diversity contexts	4
Teachers’ enactment of Freirean democratic pedagogies in primary school physical education	4
Training programmes to learn how to ride a bicycle independently for children and youths: a systematic review	4
Exploring physical education teachers’ awareness of observed teaching behaviour within pedagogies of affect	4
Exploring practitioner inquiry among health and physical education teachers: insights from teachers’ perspectives	4
Effectiveness of a lesson study intervention on teacher behaviour and student motivation in physical education lessons	4

Reconceptualising Constructive Alignment within the epistemological distinction of ways of knowing in a higher education coach development course module	4
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	4
Intervention fidelity: multiple strategies to design, implement, and assess mastery motivational climate behavioral interventions	3
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	3
Preparing pre-service physical education teachers as practitioner researchers	3
The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions	3
‘Even with the craziness, it worked’: PE teachers working in and with an Activist Approach	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
Social-ecological and biographical perspectives of principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programs: a person-centered analysis	3
Physical education from LGBTQ+ students’ perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies	3
Teacher's understanding of early childhood physical literacy: thematic analysis based on teaching experience from an Indonesian perspective	3
Teachers’ actor-oriented transfer of movement pedagogy knowledge in physical education	3
Student choice and barriers to physical activity in Latino boys in the REACH after-school program	3
Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences	3
Qualification of prospective PE teachers for inclusive PE: development and evaluation of a PETE concept	3
Physical Health Education preservice teachers’ experiences with autobiographical narrative inquiry and transformative pedagogies	3
Controlling the display of videos in a physical education context: effects on learning outcomes and situational interest	3
A pilot study of early childhood teachers’ views on teaching a structured physical education curriculum: challenges and recommendations	3
Using a coproduced educational workshop to change the focus of verbal instructions delivered by professional youth soccer coaches: a case study	3
Assessing the motivational climates in early physical education curricula underpinned by motor learning theory: SAMPLE-PE	3
Getting ‘more and more comfortable’: using an Activist Approach in a dance PE content course	3
The frustration of novelty and basic psychological needs as predictors of maladaptive outcomes in physical education	3
Motor competence assessment in physical education – convergent validity between fundamental movement skills and functional movement assessments in adolescence	3
Physical activity during school-time and fundamental movement skills: a study among preschoolers with and without physical education classes	3
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in football: the MASTER Coaching randomised control trial	2
Supporting PETE students to implement an alternative pedagogy	2
Effectiveness of a Mastery Climate Cognitive-Motor Skills School-based Intervention in children living in poverty: Motor and Academic performance, self-perceptions, and BMI	2
Narrating biopedagogy: a small story analysis of identities and parenting practices for healthy living	2
Physical education teachers’ assessment practices in health education	2
Supporting preservice teachers to implement an alternative physical education pedagogy on practicum	2
Developing the pedagogical practice of physical education pre-service teachers in gymnastics: exploring gendered embodiment	2
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	2
‘You're not good’: inequalities experienced by women in physical education during their childhood and adolescence	2
‘Free but not free-free’: teaching creative aspects of dance in physical education teacher education	2
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	2
How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review	2
‘Facilitating change from within’: investigating students’ experiences of using core reflection in physical education teacher education	2
The role of artefacts in developing competences in physical education: exploring students’ experience and knowledge built in action	2
Stakeholder perceptions of physical literacy assessment in primary school children	2
Development of fundamental motor skills between 2006 and 2016 in Dutch primary school children	2
A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England	2
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	2
Introduction to the PESP special issue: ‘Developing movement capability in physical education’	2
Health-based physical education in an elementary school: effects on physical self-concept, motivation, fitness and physical activity	2
Risk and safety management in physical education: teachers’ knowledge	2
Capoeira as a critical pedagogy tool in physical education: from a continuing professional development program to the classroom	2
Informal learning processes in the daily practice of one German PE teacher	2
The effect of specialized content knowledge in reciprocal peer learning in a university content class	2
Toward the virtuous mover: a neo-Aristotelian interpretation of physical education	2
Modifying physical activities for maximizing learning opportunities: perspectives of Finnish physical educators and special educators on inclusive teaching strategies	2
The ghosts of research past, present and future: understanding the past to inform a future of models-based practice research	2