PURPOSE Sport pedagogy (SP) has established itself as a subdiscipline in Human Movement Studies since the 1970s. It has become an academic labyrinth as a result of its rapid flourishing. Most researchers are extremely confused about this disorderly research complex. This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics of SP in stages in the western (mostly English speaking) countries. METHODS Analysis of literature published in English from 1990 to 2022. RESULTS The developmental versions were divided as follows: SP1.0 is positivistic in nature, SP2.0 is multi-paradigmatic as it includes all paradigms, and SP3.0 (current version). Many academic journals have been launched, and a variety of books on divergent topics are being published. Currently, research has exploded. In SP3.0, research performed by British scholars are notable in terms of number and quality, overpowering those by scholars in the USA and other countries. Youth sport and sport coaching are regarded as new legitimate areas. Additionally, signs for SP4.0 have been indicated. CONCLUSIONS In order to find way outs in the SP labyrinth, it is necessary to recognize the current research trends in international SP.
There has been a growing advocacy for a critical approach to physical education teacher education(PETE) in the era of globalization and ubiquitous society. Drawing on critical pedagogy, the purpose of this paper was to explore the meanings and methods for developing critical professionalism in PETE through identifying the definitions and features of critical professionalism. The notion of critical professionalism includes four crucial components: critical reflection, social sensitivity, critical thinking, and practicability. This paper suggests an inquiry-oriented physical education teacher education to develop per-service teachers’ critical professionalism in terms of providing a range of teaching methods centered on microteaching, discussion-based lessons, critical reading and writing, and using media materials. Building on findings, it was concluded that there is a need of programs for the development of policy literacy understanding complex social and cultural contexts of school physical education. Furthermore, PETE should focus on the processes of critical reflection on the teaching and learning act itself within wider social contexts, by using an inquiry-oriented approach to PETE, which will contribute to fostering teachers’ critical capacities needed to guard the educational aims of physical education against political interference.
The purpose of this paper is to map how sport sociologists and sport historians have engaged in the study of race and/in sport. Focusing on scholars with two communities of the North American Society for Sport Sociology & Sport History, it investigates themes, historical/sociological philosophy, theoretical/methodological issues that underpin their works. To be more specific, mainly four types of research are detailed: 1) popular narratives that mostly celebrate black athletes’ success in sport, 2) so-called the early academic works that highlight the positive role of sport in advancing the issue of race in relation to social justice, unification, equality, and so on, 3) a group of researches informed by the positivism, which attempt to discover, investigate, identify racially problematic phenomena, incidents, policies, or incidents and explain why they happen, what makes them problematic, and how to solve such matters, and 4) critical paradigm that orients cultural studies based researches that attempt to explore the relationship between sport and race with focus on interpretive, theoretical, and reflective approaches. In conclusion, it is discussed why I pay attention to the critical paradigm, what it’s emergence means to the sporting academy, and in what ways we can embrace it into the Korean sporting academy.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore cultural meanings of the concept of ‘Che-Yuk-In’ through a critical examination of how it was described, portrayed, and represented in the narratives of the mainstream newspapers in the early days of the nation(1945-1961). Methods As for the data collection and method, a total of 338 articles were collected by searching of "Che-Yuk-In" through the database provided by the Naver News Library. Sorting out them with the point of whether the concept simply denotes the number of players or the majority of athletes, for example, we select 140 column-type articles and analyzed how it serves as a linguistic element and what discourses were involved in the narratives. Results Our argument is twofold: 1) the concept of ‘Che-Yuk-In’ is a kind of self-representative terminology with which a particular group of people, who call themselves ‘Che-Yuk-In’, construct their collective identity into a particular type of the idealized subject, so-called sporting citizen, and 2) this construction consists of two functions: one is to share the emotion of pride by celebrating success and achievements of the sporting figures, and the other is to collectively reflect shame by criticizing negative incidents and controversies such as corruption, factional disputes, violent behaviors, which broke in the sporting practices. Conclusions With a brief summary, this paper concludes with some suggestions for future studies, in terms of how the shameful past should be embraced within the field of Korean sport history, and why a conceptual history of the ‘Che-Yuk-In’ might need to be further expanded.
