Gunn Engelsrud
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254017 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gunn Engelsrud |
| NOMBRES | Gunn |
| APELLIDO | Engelsrud |
| FIRMA | ENGELSRUD G |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian School of Sport Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0102-2725 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Tvangsbehandling og subjektivitet
Norge er blant de landene i Europa hvor det brukes mest tvang i behandlingen av spiseforstyrrelser. Det har vært en økning, og tvangstiltakene er ofte svært inngripende og kan gi store lidelser. Det er bakgrunnen for problemstillingen i artikkelen om hvordan bruk av tvang virker og manifesteres i subjektiviteten hos unge kvinner med lidelser der en spiseforstyrrelse inngår. I undersøkelsen blir to kasus fra institusjonelle behandlingssituasjoner …
Playing football like a girl
The role of sensous flow and sensing the ground in movement skill experiences—a reflection using the practice of yoga as an example
This contribution takes a phenomenological approach to explore the sensuous flow and perceived experiences in practicing movement skills, using the practice of yoga as a case study. The article focuses on the role of perception and the anonymous aspect of the body's responses in practicing skills and capabilities to move, with yoga as an example. The author uses a phenomenological framework, highlighting how passivity and sensuous flow is availab…
The experience of laser light feedback in back-squat resistance training
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature on performance in resistance training (RT) by addressing how a phenomenological perspective on experiences with inter kinaesthetic affectivity can illuminate experience of practicing RT with non-verbal, visual feedback provided through laser lights attached to the barbell. Method The material is created from qualitative interviews and using inter-kinaesthetic affec…
On investigating phenomena without losing sight of them
In this article, the authors address some of the scientific challenges associated with using observation as a research method. The authors ask how researchers contextualise and understand observation in terms of its theoretical underpinnings and how it is conducted. Using a vignette in the kindergarten context, the authors explore how observation as a research method requires theoretical reflection in and on observational work. They discuss the r…
Everybody Can Dance—Except Aging Professional Dancers! A Discussion of the Construction of the Aging Dancing Body in Four Dance Texts
The subject of the article is a critical investigation of research concerning age and dance. Our objective is to investigate whether and how researchers express their ideas about dance and age in a selection of research papers. We are particularly interested in whether researchers are reproducing an instrumental understanding of age in the context of dance and whether discourses of dance define bodies as older or younger in ways that differ from …
Teaching creative dance in school – a case study from physical education in Norway
In this qualitative case study, the authors examine teacher students’ experiences from teaching creative dance in their practicum in physical education (PE) in Norwegian schools. From a phenomenological perspective, and taking concepts such as participatory sense-making, embodied affectivity and embodied interaffectivity as a point of departure, the authors ask: How do the students experience their interaction with their pupils? How do the studen…
Den Ene og den Andre
I artikkelen setter forfatterne et kritisk søkelys på forskning og politikk der gutter og jenter blir forstått på gruppenivå. Særlig kommer gruppetenkning fram i evidensbasert forskning om kjønnsforskjeller i skolen. Ved å bruke biologiske forskjeller som forklaring, hevdes det at gutter får dårligere karakterer enn jenter, mens jenter opplever mer stress og press enn gutter. Når politikk og praksis forankres i denne typen forskning, kan det bidr…
Structural Discrimination in Physical Education. The “Encounter” Between the (White) Norwegian Teaching Content in Physical Education Lessons and Female Students of Color's Movements and Expressions
Background: Throughout society, including in the field of sports and physical education (PE), there are extensive debates on racism and structural racism. Researchers have found that students of color experience racial stereotyping and discrimination in PE. Studies also show that PE teaching practices reflect a masculine culture, emphasizing traditional (Western) competitive male sports and physical fitness practices, while marginalizing female s…
Taking time for new ideas
Even though qualitative research methods are considered important and have become more commonplace in research related to the sport sciences, there is little insight into the efforts made by sport science students to learn qualitative research methods. In this article, the authors use a course on qualitative methods inspired by a phenomenological approach to higher education in sport as a case study to examine students’ learning efforts. The data…
Unpacking the joy of movement – ‘it’s almost never the same’
Researchers, politicians, physical educators, and children – all advocate the significance of joy of movement. Children desire movement because they find it joyful and meaningful, while politicians and physical educators are often interested in the associations between joy of movement and participation in physical activity. Researchers have different perspectives both on what joy of movement is and what it means for human beings. Our aim in this …
Tensions and tractions of moving together and alone in physical education
A wide variety of activities, instructional teaching styles and physical activity for health characterise PE practices today. However, for children, PE is about more than performing activities or being physically active for health. Children experience moving in the context of PE in varying and ambivalent ways, which indicates that qualitative aspects of movement (how to move) and the movement context (where to move and with whom) matter to them. …
The Messiness of Children's Voices
The aim of the article is to explore children's experiences and expressions of movement and physical education (PE). In particular, how children's movement take form and vary in a school context. The study design is qualitative and the participants are children in fifth degree (10-years- olds). The data material consists of drawings, written texts, interviews and observations conducted over a school year. Theoretically, the article employs an aff…
The constitution of the ‘able’ and ‘less able’ student in physical education in Norway
In recent years, the judgements that typically determine who is an ‘able’ physical education (PE) student have been sharply challenged. The research literature suggests that skills in sports, health-related fitness, toughness, competitiveness and effort typically play a significant role in assessment procedures. Although Evans (2004) lamented the paucity of research relating to ‘ability’ in PE nearly 15 years ago, little new empirical research ha…
Staging fatness
The authors address the possible transformative role of staging fatness. Using their experience as audience members at a performance of My life as a fat person, they produce three anecdotes to discuss if and how staging the fat body can destabilize the social and cultural discourse about fatness. Elaborating on theoretical perspectives from fat studies and using the staring encounter as the key concept, the authors analyze the fat performance as …
Situating cultural diversity in movement. A case study on physical education teacher education in Norway
There is a growing body of research on cultural diversity, discrimination and racism in physical education teaching and practice. However, although ‘cultural diversity’ is a central concern in research, curriculum and policies of higher education, it is not clear how and in what ways students and teachers should consider cultural diversity. Drawing on qualitative interviews with teachers and students in a Norwegian physical education teacher educ…
Girls’ bodily activities in physical education How current fitness and sport discourses influence girls’ identity construction
Girls’ identity constructions are influenced by the dominant sport, health and beauty discourses in their society. Recent research indicates that sport and health discourses embedded in physical education (PE) compete for influence. Some of these studies have illustrated how these discourses inform girls’ social construction of body ideals and femininities, as well as their choices among physical activities. Our purpose in posing the question, ‘H…
How Children with Disabilities Engage in Occupations during a Transitional Phase
This study explored the engagement in occupations of Norwegian children with physical disabilities during a transitional phase between primary and secondary school. Fifteen children described their ordinary day, and we applied a life mode interview method. Three themes were identified: 1) occupations that symbolized the transition to becoming a teenager, 2) expanding possibilities by occupational engagement in social networks and media, and 3) pa…
Inclusion and participation in everyday school life
This study explores the school experiences of children with physical (dis)abilities. Based on 39 interviews with 15 Norwegian children, participation in everyday school life is introduced as a central theme and divided into three sub-themes: community and independence; adequate help and influence in the classroom; and influence in planning and decision-making. The findings presented that the children want to participate in school activities the ‘…
Changing Bodies, Changing Habits
Patients undergoing weight-loss surgery are increasingly encouraged to change their lifestyles. Dietary interventions combined with physical exercise interventions are regarded as the most effective way to ensure that they do not regain the weight they have lost. Little research however, has been done on how patients who have had the surgery actually experience the process of changing their exercise habits. To help fill this gap, we investigated …
Being an ordinary kid’ – demands of everyday life when labelled with disability
Children who are labelled with disability resist being considered ‘different’. This study was initiated to investigate how some children experience being positioned as disabled and how they adapt to demands of everyday life, including at school. Based on an analysis of interviews completed with 15 Norwegian children aged 12–14 and their parents, this study concluded that the children talked about themselves from their preferred self-identity as ‘…
Friendship in all directions
This article examines how Norwegian children with physical disabilities experience friendship during the transition between primary and secondary school. The research was based on 38 life mode interviews with 15 children. Two themes were explored: (1) different kinds of friends: friends with disabilities, friends without disabilities and technology-mediated friendships; and (2) qualities of friendship: understanding, intimacy and trust, mutuality…
Researching embodiment in movement contexts
This article takes a phenomenological approach to understanding embodiment in relation to teaching and learning taking place in movement contexts. Recently a number of studies have pointed to the potential that phenomenology has to understand the meanings and experiences of moving subjects. By presenting two examples of our own work on embodied learning, and discussing these in light of a distinction between phenomenology as philosophy and as met…
Rehabilitation of a Knee Injury
This article addresses a question posed within medical research about why different patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries experience different postrehabilitation knee function. Unlike the medical literature that focuses narrowly on rehabilitation, the study research shows that standardized rehabilitation programs are interpreted, experienced, and executed differently by participants. The authors argue that these differences are …
I am not that old’
The high cultural valuation of youthfulness and fitness in the mass media and more generally in western consumer society is the contextual frame for this study. It examines older people's attitudes towards their own ageing and towards people who are older or frailer than themselves. Participant observation was conducted of the attitudes, actions and interactions of the users of a senior centre in Norway. The users held two sets of attitudes that …
Girls’ bodily activities in physical education How current fitness and sport discourses influence girls’ identity construction
Girls’ identity constructions are influenced by the dominant sport, health and beauty discourses in their society. Recent research indicates that sport and health discourses embedded in physical education (PE) compete for influence. Some of these studies have illustrated how these discourses inform girls’ social construction of body ideals and femininities, as well as their choices among physical activities. Our purpose in posing the question, ‘H…
I am not that old’
The high cultural valuation of youthfulness and fitness in the mass media and more generally in western consumer society is the contextual frame for this study. It examines older people's attitudes towards their own ageing and towards people who are older or frailer than themselves. Participant observation was conducted of the attitudes, actions and interactions of the users of a senior centre in Norway. The users held two sets of attitudes that …
The lived body as experience and perspective
The theme of the article is to question how the researcher's body is involved both in creating accesses to, and in interpreting, material from qualitative research interviews. The researcher's body is understood from a phenomenological perspective and regarded both as an access and as a limitation to the acquisition of knowledge. The article uses a concrete interview with an aerobic instructor, Edith, as means of illuminating this theme. It is at…
Researching embodiment in movement contexts
This article takes a phenomenological approach to understanding embodiment in relation to teaching and learning taking place in movement contexts. Recently a number of studies have pointed to the potential that phenomenology has to understand the meanings and experiences of moving subjects. By presenting two examples of our own work on embodied learning, and discussing these in light of a distinction between phenomenology as philosophy and as met…
The constitution of the ‘able’ and ‘less able’ student in physical education in Norway
In recent years, the judgements that typically determine who is an ‘able’ physical education (PE) student have been sharply challenged. The research literature suggests that skills in sports, health-related fitness, toughness, competitiveness and effort typically play a significant role in assessment procedures. Although Evans (2004) lamented the paucity of research relating to ‘ability’ in PE nearly 15 years ago, little new empirical research ha…
Situating cultural diversity in movement. A case study on physical education teacher education in Norway
There is a growing body of research on cultural diversity, discrimination and racism in physical education teaching and practice. However, although ‘cultural diversity’ is a central concern in research, curriculum and policies of higher education, it is not clear how and in what ways students and teachers should consider cultural diversity. Drawing on qualitative interviews with teachers and students in a Norwegian physical education teacher educ…
How Children with Disabilities Engage in Occupations during a Transitional Phase
This study explored the engagement in occupations of Norwegian children with physical disabilities during a transitional phase between primary and secondary school. Fifteen children described their ordinary day, and we applied a life mode interview method. Three themes were identified: 1) occupations that symbolized the transition to becoming a teenager, 2) expanding possibilities by occupational engagement in social networks and media, and 3) pa…
Inclusion and participation in everyday school life
This study explores the school experiences of children with physical (dis)abilities. Based on 39 interviews with 15 Norwegian children, participation in everyday school life is introduced as a central theme and divided into three sub-themes: community and independence; adequate help and influence in the classroom; and influence in planning and decision-making. The findings presented that the children want to participate in school activities the ‘…
Unpacking the joy of movement – ‘it’s almost never the same’
Researchers, politicians, physical educators, and children – all advocate the significance of joy of movement. Children desire movement because they find it joyful and meaningful, while politicians and physical educators are often interested in the associations between joy of movement and participation in physical activity. Researchers have different perspectives both on what joy of movement is and what it means for human beings. Our aim in this …
The Messiness of Children's Voices
The aim of the article is to explore children's experiences and expressions of movement and physical education (PE). In particular, how children's movement take form and vary in a school context. The study design is qualitative and the participants are children in fifth degree (10-years- olds). The data material consists of drawings, written texts, interviews and observations conducted over a school year. Theoretically, the article employs an aff…
Friendship in all directions
This article examines how Norwegian children with physical disabilities experience friendship during the transition between primary and secondary school. The research was based on 38 life mode interviews with 15 children. Two themes were explored: (1) different kinds of friends: friends with disabilities, friends without disabilities and technology-mediated friendships; and (2) qualities of friendship: understanding, intimacy and trust, mutuality…
The role of sensous flow and sensing the ground in movement skill experiences—a reflection using the practice of yoga as an example
This contribution takes a phenomenological approach to explore the sensuous flow and perceived experiences in practicing movement skills, using the practice of yoga as a case study. The article focuses on the role of perception and the anonymous aspect of the body's responses in practicing skills and capabilities to move, with yoga as an example. The author uses a phenomenological framework, highlighting how passivity and sensuous flow is availab…
Taking time for new ideas
Even though qualitative research methods are considered important and have become more commonplace in research related to the sport sciences, there is little insight into the efforts made by sport science students to learn qualitative research methods. In this article, the authors use a course on qualitative methods inspired by a phenomenological approach to higher education in sport as a case study to examine students’ learning efforts. The data…
Teaching Styles in Contact Improvisation
Since contact improvisation was “invented” in North America in the 1970s, it has gained widespread acceptance; teachers have been travelling extensively to conduct seminars and workshops. The dance form has been documented and researched from several viewpoints, but, as I see it, there is general agreement among practitioners and scholars—including United Kingdom-based Helen Thomas (2003), Norway-based Hilde Rustad (2006) and Eli Torvik (2005), a…
The lived body as experience and perspective
The theme of the article is to question how the researcher's body is involved both in creating accesses to, and in interpreting, material from qualitative research interviews. The researcher's body is understood from a phenomenological perspective and regarded both as an access and as a limitation to the acquisition of knowledge. The article uses a concrete interview with an aerobic instructor, Edith, as means of illuminating this theme. It is at…
Teaching Styles in Contact Improvisation
Since contact improvisation was “invented” in North America in the 1970s, it has gained widespread acceptance; teachers have been travelling extensively to conduct seminars and workshops. The dance form has been documented and researched from several viewpoints, but, as I see it, there is general agreement among practitioners and scholars—including United Kingdom-based Helen Thomas (2003), Norway-based Hilde Rustad (2006) and Eli Torvik (2005), a…
I am not that old’
The high cultural valuation of youthfulness and fitness in the mass media and more generally in western consumer society is the contextual frame for this study. It examines older people's attitudes towards their own ageing and towards people who are older or frailer than themselves. Participant observation was conducted of the attitudes, actions and interactions of the users of a senior centre in Norway. The users held two sets of attitudes that …
Bokomtaler
Researching embodiment in movement contexts
This article takes a phenomenological approach to understanding embodiment in relation to teaching and learning taking place in movement contexts. Recently a number of studies have pointed to the potential that phenomenology has to understand the meanings and experiences of moving subjects. By presenting two examples of our own work on embodied learning, and discussing these in light of a distinction between phenomenology as philosophy and as met…
Rehabilitation of a Knee Injury
This article addresses a question posed within medical research about why different patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries experience different postrehabilitation knee function. Unlike the medical literature that focuses narrowly on rehabilitation, the study research shows that standardized rehabilitation programs are interpreted, experienced, and executed differently by participants. The authors argue that these differences are …
Friendship in all directions
This article examines how Norwegian children with physical disabilities experience friendship during the transition between primary and secondary school. The research was based on 38 life mode interviews with 15 children. Two themes were explored: (1) different kinds of friends: friends with disabilities, friends without disabilities and technology-mediated friendships; and (2) qualities of friendship: understanding, intimacy and trust, mutuality…
Changing Bodies, Changing Habits
Patients undergoing weight-loss surgery are increasingly encouraged to change their lifestyles. Dietary interventions combined with physical exercise interventions are regarded as the most effective way to ensure that they do not regain the weight they have lost. Little research however, has been done on how patients who have had the surgery actually experience the process of changing their exercise habits. To help fill this gap, we investigated …
Being an ordinary kid’ – demands of everyday life when labelled with disability
Children who are labelled with disability resist being considered ‘different’. This study was initiated to investigate how some children experience being positioned as disabled and how they adapt to demands of everyday life, including at school. Based on an analysis of interviews completed with 15 Norwegian children aged 12–14 and their parents, this study concluded that the children talked about themselves from their preferred self-identity as ‘…
How Children with Disabilities Engage in Occupations during a Transitional Phase
This study explored the engagement in occupations of Norwegian children with physical disabilities during a transitional phase between primary and secondary school. Fifteen children described their ordinary day, and we applied a life mode interview method. Three themes were identified: 1) occupations that symbolized the transition to becoming a teenager, 2) expanding possibilities by occupational engagement in social networks and media, and 3) pa…
Inclusion and participation in everyday school life
This study explores the school experiences of children with physical (dis)abilities. Based on 39 interviews with 15 Norwegian children, participation in everyday school life is introduced as a central theme and divided into three sub-themes: community and independence; adequate help and influence in the classroom; and influence in planning and decision-making. The findings presented that the children want to participate in school activities the ‘…
Girls’ bodily activities in physical education How current fitness and sport discourses influence girls’ identity construction
Girls’ identity constructions are influenced by the dominant sport, health and beauty discourses in their society. Recent research indicates that sport and health discourses embedded in physical education (PE) compete for influence. Some of these studies have illustrated how these discourses inform girls’ social construction of body ideals and femininities, as well as their choices among physical activities. Our purpose in posing the question, ‘H…
Staging fatness
The authors address the possible transformative role of staging fatness. Using their experience as audience members at a performance of My life as a fat person, they produce three anecdotes to discuss if and how staging the fat body can destabilize the social and cultural discourse about fatness. Elaborating on theoretical perspectives from fat studies and using the staring encounter as the key concept, the authors analyze the fat performance as …
Situating cultural diversity in movement. A case study on physical education teacher education in Norway
There is a growing body of research on cultural diversity, discrimination and racism in physical education teaching and practice. However, although ‘cultural diversity’ is a central concern in research, curriculum and policies of higher education, it is not clear how and in what ways students and teachers should consider cultural diversity. Drawing on qualitative interviews with teachers and students in a Norwegian physical education teacher educ…
The constitution of the ‘able’ and ‘less able’ student in physical education in Norway
In recent years, the judgements that typically determine who is an ‘able’ physical education (PE) student have been sharply challenged. The research literature suggests that skills in sports, health-related fitness, toughness, competitiveness and effort typically play a significant role in assessment procedures. Although Evans (2004) lamented the paucity of research relating to ‘ability’ in PE nearly 15 years ago, little new empirical research ha…
Tensions and tractions of moving together and alone in physical education
A wide variety of activities, instructional teaching styles and physical activity for health characterise PE practices today. However, for children, PE is about more than performing activities or being physically active for health. Children experience moving in the context of PE in varying and ambivalent ways, which indicates that qualitative aspects of movement (how to move) and the movement context (where to move and with whom) matter to them. …
The Messiness of Children's Voices
The aim of the article is to explore children's experiences and expressions of movement and physical education (PE). In particular, how children's movement take form and vary in a school context. The study design is qualitative and the participants are children in fifth degree (10-years- olds). The data material consists of drawings, written texts, interviews and observations conducted over a school year. Theoretically, the article employs an aff…
Teaching creative dance in school – a case study from physical education in Norway
In this qualitative case study, the authors examine teacher students’ experiences from teaching creative dance in their practicum in physical education (PE) in Norwegian schools. From a phenomenological perspective, and taking concepts such as participatory sense-making, embodied affectivity and embodied interaffectivity as a point of departure, the authors ask: How do the students experience their interaction with their pupils? How do the studen…
Den Ene og den Andre
I artikkelen setter forfatterne et kritisk søkelys på forskning og politikk der gutter og jenter blir forstått på gruppenivå. Særlig kommer gruppetenkning fram i evidensbasert forskning om kjønnsforskjeller i skolen. Ved å bruke biologiske forskjeller som forklaring, hevdes det at gutter får dårligere karakterer enn jenter, mens jenter opplever mer stress og press enn gutter. Når politikk og praksis forankres i denne typen forskning, kan det bidr…
Structural Discrimination in Physical Education. The “Encounter” Between the (White) Norwegian Teaching Content in Physical Education Lessons and Female Students of Color's Movements and Expressions
Background: Throughout society, including in the field of sports and physical education (PE), there are extensive debates on racism and structural racism. Researchers have found that students of color experience racial stereotyping and discrimination in PE. Studies also show that PE teaching practices reflect a masculine culture, emphasizing traditional (Western) competitive male sports and physical fitness practices, while marginalizing female s…
Taking time for new ideas
Even though qualitative research methods are considered important and have become more commonplace in research related to the sport sciences, there is little insight into the efforts made by sport science students to learn qualitative research methods. In this article, the authors use a course on qualitative methods inspired by a phenomenological approach to higher education in sport as a case study to examine students’ learning efforts. The data…
Unpacking the joy of movement – ‘it’s almost never the same’
Researchers, politicians, physical educators, and children – all advocate the significance of joy of movement. Children desire movement because they find it joyful and meaningful, while politicians and physical educators are often interested in the associations between joy of movement and participation in physical activity. Researchers have different perspectives both on what joy of movement is and what it means for human beings. Our aim in this …
Everybody Can Dance—Except Aging Professional Dancers! A Discussion of the Construction of the Aging Dancing Body in Four Dance Texts
The subject of the article is a critical investigation of research concerning age and dance. Our objective is to investigate whether and how researchers express their ideas about dance and age in a selection of research papers. We are particularly interested in whether researchers are reproducing an instrumental understanding of age in the context of dance and whether discourses of dance define bodies as older or younger in ways that differ from …
The role of sensous flow and sensing the ground in movement skill experiences—a reflection using the practice of yoga as an example
This contribution takes a phenomenological approach to explore the sensuous flow and perceived experiences in practicing movement skills, using the practice of yoga as a case study. The article focuses on the role of perception and the anonymous aspect of the body's responses in practicing skills and capabilities to move, with yoga as an example. The author uses a phenomenological framework, highlighting how passivity and sensuous flow is availab…
The experience of laser light feedback in back-squat resistance training
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature on performance in resistance training (RT) by addressing how a phenomenological perspective on experiences with inter kinaesthetic affectivity can illuminate experience of practicing RT with non-verbal, visual feedback provided through laser lights attached to the barbell. Method The material is created from qualitative interviews and using inter-kinaesthetic affec…
Psychology (25 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Epistemology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Aesthetics (9 obras) · Embodied cognition (9 obras) · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras)