• Book review: Sport and neoliberalism: politics, consumption, and culture 

  Pope, Clive C. (Routledge, 2013)

  This article reviews the book, "Sport and neoliberalism: politics, consumption, and culture", edited by David L. Andrews & Michael L. Silk.

• Darwinism in the gym 

  Pope, Clive C.; O’Sullivan, Mary (Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., 2003)

  This study examined the ecology of “free gym” as it occurred in both school lunch hour and after-school community settings. In an effort to understand how urban youth experience sport, an ethnography using multiple methods ...

  

• Enhancing coach-parent relationships in youth sports: Increasing harmony and minimizing hassle: A commentary 

  Pope, Clive C. (Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd, 2011)

  The “athlete triangle” remains a valuable heuristic to coaches, coach educators and parents. The interactions between coaches, parents and athletes are both mutual and influential. Moreover, the three constituents of the ...

• Happy 21st birthday sport education: Where are we now? 

  Pope, Clive C. (Physical Education New Zealand, 2007)

  The article focuses on the pros and cons of the Sport Education Curriculum (SEM) that is used in New Zealand. Comments made by former professional rugby player Chris Laidlaw show how important sport is to New Zealanders. ...

  

• How an exchange of perspectives led to tentative ethical guidelines for visual ethnography 

  Pope, Clive C.; De Luca, Rosemary; Tolich, Martin (Taylor & Francis, 2010)

  Qualitative research, especially visual ethnography, is an iterative not a linear process, replete with good intentions, false starts, mistaken assumptions, miscommunication and a continually revised statement of the ...

• It's Personal and it's Professional: The meanings women Baby-boomers attribute to their ageing and 'working-out' with a personal trainer. 

  Sweet, Wendy Gaylene (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  Greater numbers of older populations is the emerging norm for all countries, and something that triggered the World Health Organization to revise its 2002 global ageing strategy. In the 2015 document, greater emphasis is ...

  

• Developing Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education: The Contextualised Appropriation of Sport Education 

  Ang, Swee Chong (University of Waikato, 2015)

  Social and emotional learning (SEL) is increasingly recognised as beneficial for students’ mental health and academic learning. Despite the growing SEL research in general education, SEL remains largely under-explored and ...

  

• Youth sport in Trinidad and Tobago: Extending the possibilities and pathways for post-secondary school participation 

  Lawrence-Ince, Karen (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Sport in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) emerged out of centuries of occupation by different colonisers becoming more entrenched through the influences of the British. Continued but intermittent successes at the international ...

  

• Ko au te whenua, te whenua ko au – I am the land, the land is me: An autoethnographic investigation of a secondary school teacher’s experience seeking to enrich learning in outdoor education for Māori students. 

  Townsend, Jane Emma (University of Waikato, 2014)

  This thesis is my story as an outdoor educator, as a researcher, and a co-participant reflecting on my own actions and experiences as well as those of my students. In this autoethnography I share my revelations and tensions ...

  

• Life as a Carded Athlete 

  Ryan, Christina (University of Waikato, 2014)

  In 2001 the Ministerial Taskforce for Sport, Leisure and Fitness presented the Graham Report to the New Zealand government. The authors of this document had been invited to assess the state of sport within New Zealand and ...

  

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