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Overview

John Evans is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions appear primarily in the field of educational policy and sport education, with a focus on aspects relating to policy concepts and academic reflections within these areas.

Evans has published multiple papers in recognized journals, with several recent works appearing in "Sport Education and Society" and one in the "Journal of Education Policy." Notable recent publications include:

  • Embodying policy concepts, 2020, Sport Education and Society
  • In memory of Professor Brian Davies (1938-2020): a tribute, some pointers to his research and scholarship, and a trip down memory lane, 2020, Sport Education and Society
  • Brian Davies 1938-2020, 2020, Journal of Education Policy
  • Editorial fond farewell, 2022, Sport Education and Society

The publication venues where Evans frequently publishes include:

  • Sport Education and Society
  • Journal of Education Policy

Evans has collaborated with a small group of frequent co-authors, notably Brian Davies and Jan E. Evans. These collaborations appear to be connected to the work published in the early 2020s and include scholarly tributes as well as editorial contributions.

The research topics covered in Evans's work are closely aligned with policy concepts and educational frameworks within sport education, as indicated by the thematic focus of the journals and papers. This suggests a specialization in exploring how policy is embodied and discussed within education systems linked to sport.

Best Publications

  • Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse: Fat Fabrications

    John Evans;Emma Rich;Brian Davies;Rachel Allwood

  • Politics, policy, and practice in physical education

    Dawn Penney;John Evans

  • ‘Fat Ethics’ – The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics

    Emma Rich;John Evans

  • Catalytic Cleavage of the C-H and C-C Bonds of Alkanes by Surface Organometallic Chemistry: An EXAFS and IR Characterization of a Zr-H Catalyst

    Judith Corker;Frédéric Lefebvre;Christine Lécuyer;Véronique Dufaud

  • Making a difference? Education and 'ability' in physical education

    John Evans

  • Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health

    John Evans;Brian Davies;Jan Wright

  • The body made flesh: embodied learning and the corporeal device

    John Evans;Brian Davies;Emma Rich

  • Disordered eating and disordered schooling: what schools do to middle class girls

    John Evans;Emma Rich;Rachel Holroyd

  • Physical Competence and the Development of Children's Peer Relations

    John Evans;Glyn C. Roberts

  • Teachers, Teaching and the Social Construction of Gender Relations

    John Evans;Brian Davies;Dawn Penney

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fat, Thin, and Overweight. The Social Fabrication of Risk and Ill Health

    John Evans;Emma Rich;Brian Davies

  • Levels on the playing field: the social construction of physical ‘ability’ in the physical education curriculum

    John Evans;Dawn Penney

  • Physical Education and Health: a Polemic or ëLet Them Eat Cake!í

    John Evans

  • Defining Physical Literacy for Application in Australia: A Modified Delphi Method

    Richard J. Keegan;Lisa M. Barnett;Dean A. Dudley;Richard D. Telford

  • Learning To Teach Physical Education

    Richard Tinning;David Kirk;John Robert Evans

  • Hungry to Be Noticed: Young Women, Anorexia and Schooling

    Emma Rich;Rachel Holroyd;John Evans

  • Body pedagogies, P/policy, health and gender

    John Evans;Emma Rich;Rachel Allwood;Brian Davies

  • ‘The only Problem is, children will like their chips’: education and the discursive production of ill-health

    John Evans;Bethan Evans;Emma Rich

  • Naming the Game. Discourse and Domination in Physical Education and Sport in England and Wales

    Dawn Penney;John Evans

  • Equality, Education, and Physical Education

    John Evans

  • Body policies and body pedagogies: every child matters in totally pedagogised schools?

    John Evans;Emma Rich

Frequent Co-Authors

Dawn Penney
Dawn Penney Edith Cowan University
Jan Wright
Jan Wright University of Wollongong

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