Trends in the Promotion of Physical Education and Physical Activity and Sport from a Gender Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

There are numerous opportunities and resources that can be generated from physical education and physical activity and sport (PAS) to promote habits and actions that foster an active, egalitarian society with values associated with the promotion of a culture of peace and reconciliation. Among others, the practice of PAS contributes to building more tolerant, supportive, and respectful people, in terms of respect for others and for the environment. It also promotes healthy lifestyles by preventing diseases such as obesity, and cardiovascular problems, among other pathologies. For this reason, we are concerned about how the habits and practice of PAS are evolving in the younger population, and how they are being promoted by various educational and governmental institutions worldwide. To guarantee people's wellbeing, it is necessary for sports programmes and actions to increase and bring the practice of PAS from an early age. It is also essential to guarantee the same opportunities for the promotion and practice of sport for all.

Gender differences in the field of sport in most social spaces are persistent. Despite efforts to improve legislation and social awareness, these situations hardly differ from those twenty years ago. Based on this, it is a priority to know and analyse the interest and predisposition towards the practice of PAS among young people and to identify the causes that encourage the practice of PAS, its abandonment, or its absence. 

In this Special Issue, the aim is for contributions to address the analysis of the reality of possible difficulties or potentialities encountered by young people in the practice of PSA, as well as to investigate and offer proposals for improvement or educational strategies for action that motivate young people to value the importance of physical sports activities both in their free time and in formal education.

Below, we suggest the following topics for your contributions:

• Research on the practice of physical activity and sport through a gender perspective;
• Barriers and causes of inequality and loss of opportunities according to gender in the practice of physical activity and sport;
• Micro-inequalities in different contexts in the practice of physical activity and sport;
• The Sustainable Development Goals and gender discrimination in the world of sport;
• Holistic educational proposals and models that promote equal opportunities for the practice of physical activity and sport among young people;
• Transversal competences in the initial and continuous training of professionals in education, and physical activity and sport.

We look forward to receiving your submission.

Dr. M.ª Alejandra Ávalos-Ramos
Prof. Dr. Susana Vale
Guest Editors

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• motivation
• adherence
• gender
• young people
• leisure and recreation
• initial training
• sports technicians
• physical activity and sport programmes
• inequality
• physical education