• Being, having and belonging: values and ways of engaging in sport 

      Aggerholm, Kenneth; Breivik, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article presents an analytical framework for understanding and studying the value structures that govern participation in sport. We combine insights from a Norwegian Monitor survey with existential philosophical ...
    • Beyond life-skills: Talented athletes, existential learning and (un)learning the life of an athlete 

      Ronkainen, Noora; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Ryba, Tatiana V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Following developments in educational discourse more broadly, learning discourses in youth sport have been shaped by outcome-based and instrumental goals of developing useful life-skills for ‘successful’ lives. There is, ...
    • Bubbles & Squat – did Dionysus just sneak into the fitness centre? 

      Aggerholm, Kenneth; Larsen, Signe Højbjerre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A Danish fitness chain recently introduced a new concept called Bubbles & Squat. Here, fitness training is combined with free champagne and music. In this paper, we examine this new way of bringing parties, alcohol and ...
    • Competition in Physical Education: Avoid, Ask, Adapt or Accept? 

      Aggerholm, Kenneth; Standal, Øyvind Førland; Hordvik, Mats Melvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Competition is an essential part of youth sport. But should it also be part of the curriculum in physical education? Or are competitive activities incompatible with the educational context? While some researchers have ...
    • Defiance in sport 

      Aggerholm, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article examines the role and value of defiance in sport. I argue that defiance is a virtue in sport and make a case for it as a spirited and praiseworthy way of counteracting burdened conditions. To do this, I ...
    • ”Den følelse kan jeg ikke skabe, hvis jeg bare står og fortæller” – Lærernes erfaringer med en handlingsorienteret tilgang til bevægelse i folkeskolen 

      Madsen, Kasper Lasthein; Aggerholm, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Indførelsen af kravet om 45 minutters daglig motion og bevægelse i folkeskolen har forandret lærernes undervisningspraksis. I dette kvalitative interviewstudie undersøger vi, hvilke didaktiske overvejelser lærere gør sig, ...
    • Embodying education: A bildung theoretical approach to movement integration 

      Madsen, Kasper Lasthein; Aggerholm, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Movement integration (MI) has become a significant part of contemporary educational policy; it implies that teachers of any school subject are responsible for organizing movement activities that are of educative value. In ...
    • Learning in sport: From life skills to existential learning 

      Ronkainen, Noora; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn (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 ...
    • Practising in physical education: A phenomenologically grounded study of student experiences 

      Askildsen, Carl-Emil Marstrander; Aggerholm, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This study investigates 10th-grade students’ experiences with physical education (PE) units informed by a pedagogical model called the practising model (PM). We apply a theoretical framework that integrates core concepts ...
    • Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect 

      Ronkainen, Noora; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      New forms of neoliberal femininity create demanding horizons of expectation for young women. For talented athletes, these pressures are intensified by the establishment of dual-career discourses that construct the combination ...