Sport, Higher Education and Critical Pedagogies

1. Introducing sport, higher education and critical pedagogies

Hanya Pielichaty, Philippa Velija, Catherine Phipps and Nik Dickerson

2. The sociology of sport, critical pedagogies and national identity in Northern Ireland

Katie Liston and Ryan Adams

3. Contemplative practices and anti-oppression pedagogy in sport-focused higher education

Samuel M. Clevenger and Jaime R. Deluca

4. Experiences as a young action researcher: Developing a contemporary sports coaching curriculum

Emma Godman, Sofia Santos and Kerry Harris

5. Analysing Dutch sport studies in higher education: “I do not know a lot about colonialism”

Jakob Kunert, Sepandarmaz Mashreghi and Jānis Skvarnavičs

6. The transformative power of SportsCrit™ in sports education: Illuminating the field

Gyasmine George-Williams

7. Teaching outdoor and adventure recreation through a queer pedagogical lens

Bart Bloem Herraiz and Elía Velo Camacho

8. History as a critical pedagogical methodology: From the present to the past

Gonzalo Ramírez-Macías, Augusto R. Rodríguez-Sánchez and Joaquín Piedra

9. Freirean-informed sport coach education: A platform for voice

Reece Chapman and Colum Cronin

10. Innovative approaches to sports education: A focus on transformative pedagogies

Nicholas Zoroya and Joshua Greer

11. Self-tracking as a form of pedagogy

Jonathan Finn

12. Deportigualízate: A critical intersectional feminist curriculum for challenging gender inequities in sports and physical education

Marina Castro-García and Cristina López-Villar

13. ‘At the moment, it all seems to be men’: Gender regimes as a framework for analysing and disrupting gender relations on higher education sports courses

Philippa Velija and Catherine Phipps

14. Women student-athletes’ perceptions on life skills and careers through higher-education sport in Japan

Kate Sylvester

15. Gender-responsive strategies to reframe belonging in sports science for students with caring responsibilities

Mistrelle R. Ellmore, Rebecca Sanderson and Kali Thompson

16. Where are all the women in sports business management? A cross-examination of the sports industry, scholarship and higher education sports business programmes

Hanya Pielichaty

17. A reflection on designing and implementing a sport sociology module from a decolonial perspective: What are the stories we know and what are the stories we tell?

Nik Dickerson

18. Problem-based learning for social justice in a socio-cultural sport programme: Supporting shared goals and real-world learning

Joanne Hill

19. Deconstructing disability in physical education Initial Teacher Training

Ellen-Alyssa F. Gambles, Alexandra Brown and Steven D. Anderson

20. Addressing issues of free-riding through a viva warning approach to group assessment on a sports studies module: A critical pedagogy perspective

Steven Cock, Philippa Velija, Julia Hopkins and Luke Clayton

21. Putting social theory to work: Developing agents-for-change in sport coaching

Andrew Lane, Daniel Spencer, Anna Stembridge and Kerry Harris

22. Where next for higher education, sport and critical pedagogies?

Hanya Pielichaty, Philippa Velija, Catherine Phipps and Nik Dickerson

Biography

Hanya Pielichaty is a Professor of Sport, Gender and Inclusive Education at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is a National Teaching Fellow (NTF), Principal Fellow (PFHEA) and founder of the Critical Pedagogies in Sport international network.

Philippa Velija is a Professor of Sociology and Interim Dean of School of Education at the University of Roehampton. Her research focuses on sociological approaches to understanding inequalities in sport and leisure.

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research centres around gender issues and LGBTQ+ inclusion in the sport and physical education contexts.

Nik Dickerson is a Lecturer in the Cultural Studies of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. His work explores representations of Black masculinity and national identity within sport media and other forms of popular culture. He is interested in how decolonial theoretical frameworks and methodologies can help us know Blackness outside the binary of victims or resistors of racism.