Katarina Schenker – författare

Sedan historikern Jan Lindroth disputerade med sin avhandling om idrotten som folkrörelse 1974 har det gått ett halvt sekel, och således firar svensk idrottsforskning sitt femtioårsjubileum 2024. Under perioden har idrottsvetenskap vuxit fram som ett nytt utbildnings-, forsknings- och forskarutbildningsämne. Idag finns det idrottsvetenskapliga institutioner eller motsvarande vid tio lärosäten, och fem av dem har forskarutbildning. Forskningsämnena, som från början var pedagogik, historia och psykologi, omfattar idag över trettio olika ämnesdiscipliner. Under perioden har det lagts fram fler än 250 avhandlingar med idrottsinriktning. Antologin Samhällsidrotten och idrottssamhället behandlar den humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga forskning som har bedrivits i Sverige under de femtio åren. Kapitlen analyserar innehållet i de avhandlingar som lagts fram samt andra viktiga forskningsresultat som publicerats. De 25 bidragen till antologin skrevs under perioden maj 2023 till oktober 2024 av 38 idrottsforskare. Huvudredaktör är seniorprofessor Tomas Peterson, Malmö universitet. Bokens huvudredaktör Tomas Peterson är verksam vid Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap vid Malmö universitet sedan år 2000, numera som seniorprofessor. Hans forskningsområden är svensk fotbolls professionalisering under efterkrigstiden, selektions- och rangordningsmekanismer inom barn- och ungdomsidrott, relationen mellan skol- och föreningsidrott, idrottspolitik, jämlik hälsa samt idrott och socialt entreprenörskap. Han blev professor i sociologi vid Lunds universitet år 2000 och Sveriges förste professor i idrottsvetenskap år 2002. Han har haft olika uppdrag inom Centrum för idrottsforskning 1992–2014, var utredare av det statliga idrottsstödet 2007–08, professor II vid Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet i Trondheim 2015–17 och Standing Member of the Advisory Board for the UEFA SROI Model 2017–2018.

Boken fokuserar på den idrottsdidaktiska reflektionen och syftar till att ge studenter, verksamma lärare, universitetslärare och idrottsledare ett gemensamt ramverk. Hur ska man tänka? Vad ska man göra? Varför är det viktigt att ta sig tid till att reflektera över didaktiska beslut? Boken lägger en gedigen vetenskaplig grund för vad idrottsdidaktik är och hur den kan användas praktiskt i idrottsliga eller idrottslika sammanhang.

Författaren förtydligar också förhållandet mellan didaktisk reflektion och vetenskaplig metod. Boken lyfter även den starka kopplingen mellan den organiserade tävlingsidrotten och innehållet i skolans två idrottsämnen: idrott och hälsa och specialidrott.

Om författarenKatarina Schenker är docent i idrottsvetenskap. Hon har under femton år forskat om idrottsdidaktik och idrottsrelaterad verksamhet i lärarutbildning, skola och idrottsrörelse.

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people’s physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise inclusion, democracy and equity.Drawing on observations and teacher interviews across Sweden, Norway and New Zealand, the book explores successful school teaching practices that promote social justice and equitable health outcomes. In particular, it draws attention to the importance of building relationships, teaching for social cohesion and explicitly teaching about and acting on social inequities as pedagogies for social justice. The book also argues that context matters and that pedagogies for social justice need to recognise how both approaches to, and focus on, social justice vary in different contexts.This is essential reading for academics and students interested in social justice and working in the fields of education, HPE and teacher education.

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people’s physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise inclusion, democracy and equity.Drawing on observations and teacher interviews across Sweden, Norway and New Zealand, the book explores successful school teaching practices that promote social justice and equitable health outcomes. In particular, it draws attention to the importance of building relationships, teaching for social cohesion and explicitly teaching about and acting on social inequities as pedagogies for social justice. The book also argues that context matters and that pedagogies for social justice need to recognise how both approaches to, and focus on, social justice vary in different contexts.This is essential reading for academics and students interested in social justice and working in the fields of education, HPE and teacher education.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in European society. Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden explores different social entrepreneurship projects which have created new forms of activity and reached groups of children and young people previously disengaged in sport. The authors also highlight the growing momentum of this kind of entrepreneurship in Sweden after a period of societal upheaval that has resulted in a blurring of social borders and the founding of new organisational forms. This book contributes to the formation of a new field of research, involving theoretical and empirical work on the characteristics and possibilities of social entrepreneurship in relation to sport.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in European society. Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden explores different social entrepreneurship projects which have created new forms of activity and reached groups of children and young people previously disengaged in sport. The authors also highlight the growing momentum of this kind of entrepreneurship in Sweden after a period of societal upheaval that has resulted in a blurring of social borders and the founding of new organisational forms. This book contributes to the formation of a new field of research, involving theoretical and empirical work on the characteristics and possibilities of social entrepreneurship in relation to sport.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in European society.

Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden explores different social entrepreneurship projects which have created new forms of activity and reached groups of children and young people previously disengaged in sport. The authors also highlight the growing momentum of this kind of entrepreneurship in Sweden after a period of societal upheaval that has resulted in a blurring of social borders and the founding of new organisational forms.

This book contributes to the formation of a new field of research, involving theoretical and empirical work on the characteristics and possibilities of social entrepreneurship in relation to sport. 

Läroplanen för gymnasieskolan (GY25) är tänkt att skapa de bästa förutsättningarna för elevernas bildning, tänkande och kunskapsutveckling. I den här boken ligger fokus på de gymnasiegemensamma ämnena – deras syften, innehåll och kunskapsanspråk – och läsaren erhåller en djupare förståelse för hur de olika ämnena enskilt bidrar till och samspelar med varandra i skolans kunskapande och fostrande roll.De gymnasiegemensamma ämnenas didaktik riktar sig till studenter och lärare på ämneslärarprogrammet och den kompletterande pedagogiska utbildningen, och till yrkesverksamma lärare på gymnasienivå samt rektorer och skolchefer.De gymnasiegemensamma ämnena utgörs av engelska, historia, idrott och hälsa, matematik, naturkunskap, religionskunskap, samhällskunskap samt svenska och svenska som andraspråk.

In Search of Sport Didactics: The aim of this thesis is to examine sport didactics as a concept and tool for reflecting on PE education. An additional aim is to analyze course literature and teaching models. Special focus is given to mandatory course literature devoted to dance, orienteering, swimming and ball games. Sport didactics may be regarded both as a research area and as education theory. This thesis adopts the latter perspective. The thesis starts by considering the concept of didactics. Further, different traditions in subject-matter didactics, including that of sport didactics, are compared. Different countries have different traditions, as do different disciplines, which enables researchers to approach subject-matter didactics from different backgrounds. Comparisons also show that subject-matter didactics, including sport didactics, need not be limited to dealing with school education but can also relate to other educational activities. On this basis a number of concepts describing sport didactics have been identified: teaching models, sport pedagogy models, theory of sport didactics, teaching method, teaching concept, societal pedagogical principle, the anatomy of teaching models and sport pedagogical reflection. The concepts are used to construct the tool to be used for analyzing the course literature. On the basis of the derivation of the concept, sport didactics is described as a tool for reflection on the sport teaching-studying-learning process. By applying different concepts sport didactics combines micro perspectives in the form of natural and behavioural science knowledge about learning and about the human body in motion with macro perspectives in the form of humanist-social science knowledge about learning, teaching and sporting in society. This definition makes it possible to relate concrete teaching to the problems of the subject which have been elucidated by sport-pedagogical research. The analyze of course literature and teaching models required empirics in the form of course literature in the areas of ball games, dance, orienteering and swimming. Four physical education (PE) teacher programmes were chosen. The study comprises 54 texts, including books, anthologies and articles (c. 5700 pages). The overwhelming character of the literature is uncritical, mainly concerning fostering with the focus on body culture (performance, experience, health/utility). The language of sport, together with tried experience, frequently constitutes the basis for being able to reflect on and talk about the teaching process and pupil development. In the literature which takes its starting point in social science and humanist perspectives the dominating perspectives are those in line with the body culture or activity advocated. Furthermore, the pupil is supposed to be provided with the appropriate experience and knowledge so as to be able to get by in present society (i.e. "in society as is"). The literature describing teaching models needs to encourage reflection and a critical attitude. There is also a gap between, on the one hand, literature describing sport didactics as a concept and, on the other hand, literature describing teaching models. The thesis demonstrates that sport didactics has the potential to ground teaching practice scientifically. The greatest challenge may be to tackle its close relation to sport. Sport & Health in school coexists with the sport movement and other organizations which advocate physical activity. There will probably always be interested parties with a desire to have an influence on the mission and content of the subject, to whom PE teacher education programmes as well as those representing the school subject are obliged to relate.