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Author:   Mikkel Tin ,  Frode Telseth ,  Jan Ove Tangen (University of South-Eastern Norway) ,  Richard Giulianotti (Loughborough University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780367335007

ISBN 10:   036733500
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: the Nordic model and physical culture, Part I: Education, 1. Creating new sport policy: the case of Finnish schools on the move, 2. Nature in the history of physical education and in the lives of Norwegians today, 3. Let’s move: embodiment, leadership, and dance in education, 4. Exploring democratic relations in higher dance education: a case study, Part II: Sports, 5. Changing constructions of childhood challenging the Swedish sport model: ‘football was for fun – I exercise for my health’, 6. The roots of Icelandic physical culture and sport in the Saga Age, 7. The Finnish sport system in transition: from a mixed model back to the Nordic sports movement?, 8. Discourses on the legitimate understanding of Norwegian and Nordic elite sport: theoretical reflections on an empirical case, 9. The Johaug doping case: public reactions and sociological explanations, Part III: Public space, 10. Scandinavian friluftsliv (outdoor life) and the Nordic model: passions and paradoxes, 11. Nature is the new culture: the active body as a citizen typology on the rise, 12. Water competence and new Norwegians: outdoor teaching as an inclusive-exclusive learning space, 13. Public parks in the North: designed to liberate or discipline our moving bodies?, Afterword: the Nordic model and physical cultures in the global context

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Mikkel B. Tin is Professor of Philosophy of Culture in the Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Frode Telseth is Lecturer in the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Jan Ove Tangen is Professor of Sport Sociology in the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He is also Professor II in the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

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