Education + Training: Volume 60 Issue 5

Sport education: fit for a purpose

Vanessa Ratten, Paul Jones

The flipped university: exploring student progression in football coaching and development

Robert Griffiths, Jay Probert, Brendan Cropley

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of a foundation degree programme, delivered via a flipped university approach, on student learning, development and…

Sports university education and entrepreneurial intentions: A comparison between Spain and Lithuania

María Huertas González-Serrano, Irena Valantine, Josep Crespo Hervás, Carlos Pérez-Campos, Ferran Calabuig Moreno

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the nationality and the sport education system could affect the entrepreneurial intentions (EI) of undergraduate sport science…

“The ability to get a job”: student understandings and definitions of employability

Sharon Gedye, Emily Beaumont

The purpose of this paper is to explore employability in the context of higher education (HE) from the students’ perspective. Limited attention has been paid to student…

Flipped learning and formative evaluation in higher education

Fernando M. Otero-Saborido, Antonio J. Sánchez-Oliver, Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana, José Álvarez-García

The purpose of this paper is to design and validate a continuous self-assessment tool that involves university students in reflection processes on their Flipped Learning model…

Sport events at the community level: A pedagogical tool to improve skills for students and teachers

Dina Alexandra Marques Miragaia, Carla D.M. da Costa, Vanessa Ratten

The purpose of this paper is to identify motives that lead students and teachers of sports science to participate voluntarily in the organization of sport events at a community…

Motives and constraints of participants in running events

Konstantinos Koronios, Marina Psiloutsikou, Athanasios Kriemadis

The purpose of this paper is to acquire improved comprehension of the motivational factors and the various constraints associated with individuals’ participation in mass running…

Mind the gap: Sport management education and employability auto-ethnographical analysis of sport management education and the sports fitness industry

Steve Raven

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the position of sport management education (SME) in relation to employment in the sport fitness industry and if a shift towards a greater…

Why talented athletes drop out from sport? The Portuguese and Czech case

Teresa Silva Dias, Katerina Novotná, Helder Zimmermann Oliveira, Carlos Azevedo, Nuno Corte-Real, Pavel Slepička, António Manuel Fonseca

The purpose of this paper is to perceive the perspective of Portuguese and Czech’ talented athletes regarding: the main reasons pointed to drop out of sport, putting into analysis…

Future research directions for sport education: toward an entrepreneurial learning approach

Vanessa Ratten, Paul Jones

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an entrepreneurial learning approach to the study of sport education in order to inform future research directions.