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This book explores the use of critical pedagogies for teaching and learning in sport-related degree courses. Bringing together new research, it provides lecturers and instructors with practical guidance and case studies on planning and managing teaching in a way that facilitates social justice and inclusion. Featuring the work of leading sport researchers sharing scholarship and practice from the UK, North America, Europe and Asia, the book covers teaching and learning across the sport-related curriculum, including the sociology of sport, sport business and management, and sports coaching. It explores important issues and debates in contemporary sport studies and presents new approaches on topics such as gender equity in teaching and practice, a decolonised curriculum, anti-oppression and queer pedagogies, and pedagogy and identity in divided societies. An essential toolkit for building transformative sport-related courses that will help students to become agents of positive social change, this book is important reading for any lecturer, instructor, course leader, researcher or advanced student working in sport within higher education.

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Hanya Pielichaty is a Professor of Sport, Gender and Inclusive Education at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is a National Teaching Fellow (NTF), Principal Fellow (PFHEA) and founder of the Critical Pedagogies in Sport international network. Philippa Velija is a Professor of Sociology and Interim Dean of School of Education at the University of Roehampton. Her research focuses on sociological approaches to understanding inequalities in sport and leisure. Catherine Phipps is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research centres around gender issues and LGBTQ+ inclusion in the sport and physical education contexts. Nik Dickerson is a Lecturer in the Cultural Studies of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. His work explores representations of Black masculinity and national identity within sport media and other forms of popular culture. He is interested in how decolonial theoretical frameworks and methodologies can help us know Blackness outside the binary of victims or resistors of racism.

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