Sport, Fun and Enjoyment: An Embodied Approach (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport) - Softcover

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Sport, Fun and Enjoyment explores the pleasurable aspects of sport within the context of everyday recreational and competitive physical activities. By offering a critical exploration of what can be constituted as ’fun’ in a sporting context, this book reveals the complex ways in which individuals approach sport and engage with it throughout life.

Drawing on a wide research literature and original empirical research with children and adults, the book outlines a new theoretical framework for thinking about pleasure and fun in sport, highlighting the contrasting ways in which sport and physical activity is experienced and the interplay between individual and social contexts. Sport, Fun and Enjoyment is important reading for anybody with an interest in physical education, youth sport, the sociology of sport, physical activity and health, sport development or sport policy.

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