Introductions to the subject

4597 Introduction to physical education, fitness and sport

D. Siedentop 6th edn, McGraw-Hill, 2006, 480pp. £35.99. ISBN 9780071107488.

17 chapters organized into five parts: I. Understanding the context of lifespan sport, fitness and physical education; II. Sport; III. Fitness; IV. Physical education; Putting it all together: building a national infrastructure to support physical activity and healthy lifestyles.

4598 Research methods for sports studies

C. Gratton and I. Jones Routledge, 2003, 304pp. £28.99. ISBN 9780415268783.

Topics covered include conceptual models; qualitative research methods; choosing an appropriate research design; undertaking a literature review; key research methods such as questionnaires, interviews, content analysis and ethnographic studies; analysing data, including an introduction to SPSS, as well as guides to descriptive and inferential statistics; writing a research report; the internet as a research tool.

Dictionaries, thesauri, classifications

4599 The Sage dictionary of sports studies

D. Malcolm Sage Publications, 2008, 304pp. £19.99. ISBN 9781412907354.

Forthcoming work, with each entry providing ‘a basic definition, a guide to research themes and a clear account of the relevance of the concept in understanding sport’.

4600 Sport and physical education: the key concepts

T. Chandler, M. Cronin and W. Vamplew 2nd edn, Routledge, 2007, 266pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780415417471.

A–Z guide written specifically for students of sport studies and physical education and having wide coverage, e.g.: coaching, drug testing, hooliganism, cultural imperialism, economics, gay games, amateurism, extreme sports, exercise physiology, Olympism.

Official & quasi-official bodies

4601 Council of Europe/Conseil de l'Europe: Sport

www.coe.int/t/dg4/sport

Sport section of the CoE (Council of Europe) website contains the European Sport Charter and other reference texts. Promoting ‘sport and the social and health benefits which it brings to individuals and to society’, topics include sport for all, violence and anti-doping. Browse reference texts by general topic, or CoE sports policy and legal documents by year from 2002 to 2005. Available in English and French.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

See entry no. 5050

4602 European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation

www.engso.com

Non-profit European sports organization comprising 40 national sports confederations or national Olympic committees, representing ‘national sport in its broadest sense’. Policy documents and guidelines; youth section featuring multilingual guidelines; member list and summaries of annual country reports from 2001 to 2005; details of events, development group and European Union working group. Search facility but no site map.