Browsing Fakultet for humaniora, idretts- og utdanningsvitenskap by Journals "Frontiers in Sports and Active Living"
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Approaching physically active learning as a multi, inter, and transdisciplinary research field
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In broad terms, physically active learning is a phenomenon that combines health and educational disciplines to integrate physical activity and core educational goals. Despite a growing research interest within the physically ... -
Bodily Learning Through Creating Dance: Student Teachers' Experiences From Norwegian Physical Education Teacher Education
(Journal article, 2021)Creating dance in physical education teacher education (PETE) is described as a way of expressing subjective experiences based on movements that the students have already mastered or as a way of composing dance with set ... -
Cultural Dissonance: Surfers' Environmental Attitudes and Actions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Surfers often see themselves as “green”. In this study we examine Norwegian surfers' attitudes and actions towards the environment. The article is based on a questionnaire (n = 251) and six qualitative interviews. The ... -
Editorial: Environmental Sustainability in Sports, Physical Activity and Education, and Outdoor Life
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Environmental sustainability is one of the most urgent and complex “big issues” facing the contemporary world, as highlighted by its centrality to many of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Environmental ... -
Editorial: Sports and Active Living During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In early January 2020 some concerning news reached the world regarding a newly detected coronavirus (soon classified as Covid-19) in Wuhan, China, which led to serious illness and great risk of death (Taylor, 2021). The ... -
Freeride Skiing—Risk-Taking, Recognition, and Moral Boundaries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Freeride skiing is an activity that is, or at least can be, quite dangerous. Risk-taking in high-risk sports has usually been understood within a psychological framework. Building on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, this article ... -
Greening Sport for Development and Peace: A Socio-Ecological Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The global “sport for development and peace” (SDP) sector uses sport as a field of social activity to promote diverse types of non-sport social development. In this short perspective article, I critically examine and ... -
The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown During Spring 2020 on Personal Trainers’ Working and Living Conditions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: The aim of this study was to map changes in working and living conditions of Norwegian personal trainers (PTs) during the Covid-19 lockdown spring 2020. Methods: A total of 150 PTs (mean (SD) age 35.5 (8.4) years, ... -
Is Sport Sustainable?—It Depends!
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Is sport sustainable? Could sport be sustainable? Is there hope? The short answer is: it depends. This article discusses the six most essential issues on which answers to the questions above depend. First, it depends on ... -
Local Sport Event Policies and Sustainability: A Puzzle Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)As demands for more sustainable ways of living increase, organisers of sport events have come under increasing pressure to adapt. At the same time, more and more national and local event policies increase the demand for ... -
New horizons in the sociology of sport
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The relevance of a sociological view on the problems of society has never been as important as it is today. To quote the editors of the journal Nature in their editorial, Time for the Social Sciences, from 2015: if you ... -
New insights from Norwegian and Swedish sports coaches' employment, practices, and beliefs during the first COVID-19 restriction period
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: This study (i) examined Norwegian and Swedish sports coaches' employment, practices, and beliefs during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) compared these aspects between coaches in Norway and Sweden, ... -
Protein, creatine and dieting supplements among adolescents: Use and associations with eating disorder risk factors, exercise-, and sports participation, and immigrant status
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objective: This study aimed to estimate the number of weekly users of protein, creatine, and dieting supplements and to explore whether weekly use was related to eating disorder (ED) risk factors, exercise, sports ... -
Reusing Stadiums for a Greener Future: The Circular Design Potential of Football Architecture
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Since the turn of the new Millennium, there has been an increase in efforts to build environmental-friendly sports arenas around the world. Fuelled by large sporting events like the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the ‘Green Games,’ ... -
Sport and the Covid-19 pandemic: A structuralist analysis of key themes in the UK mass media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper provides a systematic, detailed analysis of UK mass media online reports and narratives on sport and Covid-19 during the main lockdown period over March-May 2020. A “structuralist thematic” approach is utilized ... -
Sports and Active Living Are Medicine, and Education, Happiness, Performance, Business, Innovation, and Culture…for a Sustainable World
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)About 30% of adults worldwide (Hallal et al., 2012) do not meet the minimum World Health Organization recommendation on daily activity (World Health Organization, 2010). The inactivity starts in adolescence with a high ... -
Sports venue digital twin technology from a spectator virtual visiting perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The purpose of this article is to adopt a customer-centric perspective the and introduce digital twin technology as a solution for mega-sport event management. This conceptual model article focuses on the potentially drastic ... -
Validity and Reliability of an Inertial Sensor-Based Knee Proprioception Test in Younger vs. Older Adults
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Diminishing proprioception caused by aging effects is associated with a higher risk to fall. However, existing measurement systems of proprioception are often expensive, time-consuming, or insufficient regarding reliability ...