There is much academic interest in a wide range of sport-related issues. Some of the current research focuses on:

• professionalism and continuing professional development
• promoting the professional athlete
• governmental policy and legislation
• dimensions of equal opportunity

Sources

Beale and Jacobs (2004)

Beale, A.V. and Jacobs, J.S. (2004) ‘Beyond the Professional Athlete: Introducing Middle School Students to Sports Related Occupations’, Journal of Career Development 31(2): 111-124.

Houlihan (2005)

Houlihan, B. (2005) ‘Public Sector Sport: Policy Developing a Framework for Analysis’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2): 163-185.

Keay (2005)

Keay, J. (2005) ‘Developing the physical education profession: new teachers learning within a subject-based community’, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 10(2): 139-157.

Kurtzman and Zauhar (2006)

Kurtzman, J. and Zauhar, J. (2006) ‘The emerging profession – Sports Tourism Management’, Journal of Sport Tourism 10(1): 3-14.

Pascual (2006)

Pascual, C. (2006) ‘The initial training of physical education teachers - In search of the lost meaning of professionalism’, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 11(1): 69-82.

Scraton, Caudwell and Holland (2005)

Scraton, S., Caudwell, J. and Holland, S. (2005) ‘Bend it like patel’: Centring ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Gender in Feminist Analysis of Women’s Football in England International Review for the Sociology of Sport 40(1): 71-88.

Archived sources

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