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What Is Physical Literacy? An International Review and Analysis of Definitions

Richard Bailey, Iva Glibo, Katrin Koenen, and Nadia Samsudin

Physical literacy has entered policy, advocacy, and practice discourses in many countries. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) “International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport” ( UNESCO, 2015a ) and “Quality Physical Education

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Transgender Inclusion in Sport

George B. Cunningham, Risa Isard, and E. Nicole Melton

In 2021, transgender 1 individuals in sport experienced unparalleled gains and frustrating setbacks. On the one hand, the Women’s National Basketbal Association’s Layshia Clarendon rewrote the script for athletes in women’s sport since they came out as “non-cisgender” in 2015 ( Clarendon, 2015

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Program Directing as Critical Praxis: Efforts to Embed Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Values Into an Athletic Leadership Master’s Program

Jill Kochanek

The current sociopolitical context demands that youth and adult leaders in sport possess critical capacities (i.e., knowledge, attitudes, and skills) to challenge social oppression and promote justice ( Kochanek et al., 2022 ). While sport is often touted as a setting in which individuals from

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Groupness: Providing a Roadmap for an Emerging Construct in Physical Activity Settings

Alyson J. Crozier, Luc J. Martin, and Kevin S. Spink

 al. ( 2000 ) comprising intimacy groups (e.g., family), task groups (e.g., sport teams), social categories (e.g., women, Canadians), and loose associations (e.g., individuals waiting at a bus stop). Across this typology, the degree of groupness is expected to differ as a consequence of relevant group

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Physical Education Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding Competitive Activities: An Examination Through Social Media

Eve Bernstein, Ingrid Johnson, Tess Armstrong, and Ulana Lysniak

and drills practice followed by full-fledged games and tournaments. Newer curricular models have been developed to allow a more complete experience of sport. These sport-based models organize the instruction of competitive activities depending on the age of the students and goals of the programs

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Abolition or Reform? A Review of Historical Perspectives on Football Safety From the 1890s to 1950s and How They Shape Youth Football Debates Today

Kathleen Bachynski

By the late 19th century, the recently developed sport of American football had already established a strong foothold at elite colleges and in the public eye. And even then, the game’s followers debated the level and permissibility of its associated health hazards ( Bachynski, 2019 ; Harrison

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The Gridiron’s Ethical Striping: Threads of Tackle Football’s Moral Permissibility

Francisco Javier López Frías

perspective). Tackle football (also called American football, gridiron football, or simply football) raises a plethora of ethical problems. One of them, perhaps the most important, revolves around the moral permissibility of the sport: Should people be allowed to play it? If so, under what conditions? If not

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An Imperfect List of Eminent Sport and Exercise Psychology Researchers

Allison Smolinski, Olivia McIntyre, Drew Martin, and Jeffrey J. Martin

In the current paper, we identify eminent sport and exercise psychology researchers and their most highly cited papers. Our focus was exclusively on those sport and exercise psychologists who have produced a long line of research publications, typically over many years, which have been widely cited

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Reflections on a Scholarly Career in Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Influence of Significant Others on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

Thelma S. Horn

When I received the invitation to present the Senior Scholar lecture for the 2020 annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), I was pleased to accept. I have been a member of many professional organizations throughout my career

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Finding Sport and Kinesiology

Rainer Martens

language. Vernon and Anna fell in love, married on March 21, 1947, in Munich, Germany, and with Rainer came to Hutchinson, Kansas, in April 1947. Vernon adopted Rainer and that’s how I became Rainer Martens. Sport as an Assimilator I began kindergarten in the fall of 1947, unable to speak English, but as