1st Edition
The Nordic Model and Physical Culture
Introduction: The Nordic model and physical culture
Mikkel B. Tin, Frode Telseth, Jan Ove Tangen
Part I: Education
1. Creating new sport policy: The case of Finnish Schools on the Move
Kati Lehtonen and Kaarlo Laine
2. Nature in the history of physical education and in the lives of Norwegians today
Pål Augestad
3. Let’s move: Embodiment, leadership, and dance in education
Helle Winther
4. Exploring democratic relations in higher dance education: A case study
Gunn Engelsrud and Camilla Myhre
Part II: Sports
5. Changing constructions of childhood challenging the Swedish sport model: ‘Football was for fun – I exercise for my health’
Susanna Hedenborg
6. The roots of Icelandic physical culture and sport in the Saga Age
Thorolfur Thorlindsson and Vidar Halldorsson
7. The Finnish sport system in transition: From a mixed model back to the Nordic sport movement?
Kati Lehtonen and Jarmo Mäkinen
8. Discourses on the legitimate understanding of Norwegian and Nordic elite sport: Theoretical reflections on an empirical case
Nils Asle Bergsgard and Frode Telseth
9. The Johaug doping case: Public reactions and sociological explanations
Jan Ove Tangen and Bieke Gils
Part III: Public Space
10. Scandinavian friluftsliv (outdoor life) and the Nordic model: Passions and paradoxes
Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt and Per Ingvar Haukeland
11. Nature is the new culture: The active body as a citizen typology on the rise
Even Smith Wergeland
12. Water competence and new Norwegians: Outdoor teaching as an inclusive-exclusive learning space
Egil Galaaen Gjølme, Jon Sundan, Tone Pernille Østern, and Sunniva Hovde
13. Public parks in the North: Designed to liberate or discipline our moving bodies?
Mikkel B. Tin
Afterword: The Nordic model and physical cultures in the global context
Richard Giulianotti
Biography
Mikkel B. Tin is Professor of Philosophy of Culture in the Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway.
Frode Telseth is Lecturer in the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway.
Jan Ove Tangen is Professor of Sport Sociology in the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway.
Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He is also Professor II in the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway.
