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Activity theory, complexity and sports coaching: an epistemology for a discipline
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-03-18)The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is to advance the case for activity theory (AT) as a credible and alternative lens to view and research sports coaching. Second, it is to position this assertion within the ... -
‘Are PE teacher identities fit for postmodern schools or are they clinging to modernist notions of professionalism?’: a case study of Norwegian PE teacher students’ emerging professional identities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-02-16)The concept of the ‘professional teacher’ is highly contestable, and the array of definitions that circulate in teacher education draw on competing theoretical and ideological positions. This paper explores what discourses ... -
Arriving in the body: Students’ experiences of yoga based practices (YBP) in physical education teacher education (PETE)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The interest in yoga, mindfulness or similar yoga-based practices (YBP) has grown exponentially in the western world, also within education, including physical education (PE). Although some studies have been conducted on ... -
Changing personas and evolving identities: The contestation and renegotiation of researcher roles in fieldwork
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-06-13)The aim of this paper is to discuss the development and evolution of particular personas adopted by researchers in the quest for rich exchanges within the social field. It analyses my role (the principal author) as a female ... -
Coaches, sexual harassment and education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-02)Sexual harassment in sport has become an active research field within the past decade yet we know relatively little about the characteristics of the harassing coach. How are harassing coaches characterised by their victims, ... -
Coaching, caring and the politics of touch: a visual exploration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-03-12)This paper has three principal purposes. The first involves locating the ‘politics of touch’ as related to coaching within Noddings' theory of pedagogical caring. Noddings' framework is presented not so much as a prescription ... -
The constitution of the ‘able’ and ‘less able’ student in physical education in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In recent years, the judgements that typically determine who is an ‘able’ physical education (PE) student have been sharply challenged. The research literature suggests that skills in sports, health-related fitness, ... -
The continued importance of family sport culture for sport participation during the teenage years
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Growing up in a family with an affinity for sports increases the likelihood of participating in club-organised sports. Few studies to date have addressed whether the importance of family sport culture is stable or changes ... -
Didactic sensitivity to children and place: a contribution to outdoor education cultures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)There is a tendency in European education policy to emphasise more and better deliberate learning outcomes. The tendency is criticised for taking an instrumental view of education [Biesta, G. (2010). Good education in an ... -
Gendered pathways to elite coaching reflecting the accumulation of capitals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)While earlier research on coaches’ careers and the development of coaching expertise appears ‘gender blind’, the focus of this article on the underrepresentation of women in elite-level coaching is how various forms of ... -
Getting in touch with our feelings: the emotional geographies of gender relations in PETE
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08-01)This paper attempts to illustrate how embodied ways of knowing may enhance our theoretical understanding within the field of physical education teacher education (PETE). It seeks to illustrate how teacher educators' ... -
Governance of nature-based health promotion: Public policy and volunteer organisations’ innovations of outdoor activities among urban youth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article explores multilevel governance networking and innovation to better understand how nature-based public health can be promoted at a grassroot level within an urban context. Hence, the leading research question ... -
‘I found out the hard way’: micro-political workings in professional football
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-12-03)This paper examines the micro-political experiences of Adam (a pseudonym), a newly appointed fitness coach at a Football Association Premier League club, in his search for acceptance by senior colleagues. Data were collected ... -
‘I just treat them all the same, really’: teachers, whiteness and (anti) racism in physical education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper explores physical educators’ perspectives on race and racism as a first step towards disrupting whiteness and supporting the development of antiracist practice. With close links to sport, a practice centrally ... -
Learning in sport: From life skills to existential learning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Youth sport is habitually promoted as an important context for learning that contributes to a person’s broader development beyond sport-specific skills. A growing body of research in this area has operated within a life ... -
Lifestyle sport contexts as self-organized epistemic cultures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Compared to traditional athletes and PE students, self-organized lifestyle sport practitioners usually have no podiums to reach or grades to earn. They have no authorized instructor available, but seem to treat this apparent ... -
Mission impossible? Reflecting upon the relationship between physical education, youth sport and lifelong participation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-05-08)It is widely believed that school physical education (PE) is or, at the very least, can (even should) be a crucial vehicle for enhancing young people's engagement with physically active recreation (typically but not ... -
Narrative inquiry in physical education research: the story so far and its future promise
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)At a recent international education conference, current life history and narrative research within Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) was criticised for its seeming inability to ‘produce anything new’ and for ... -
Narratives from the road to social justice in PETE: teacher educator perspectives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-13)eveloping teacher education programmes founded upon principles of critical pedagogy and social justice has become increasingly difficult in the current neoliberal climate of higher education. In this article, we adopt a ... -
Neither shaking nor stirring: A case study of reflexivity in Norwegian physical education teacher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-03-28)This paper examines the place of reflexivity in the ‘philosophies’ and practices of physical education (PE) teacher educators in Norway. Using a case study approach to one quite typical institution delivering physical ...