Mette Krogh Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6507655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mette Krogh Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mette Krogh |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7097-9993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Teaching is important, but it’s not important”: A qualitative study of teacher identity among early-career academics in health professions
Early-career academics (ECAs) constitute a substantial part of the teaching workforce in health professions education (HPE), yet their teacher identity is often marginalized in academic and clinical workplaces and may therefore remain underdeveloped. This study investigates how ECAs, with teaching responsibilities in HPE, construct and negotiate their teacher identities in relation to valuing teaching. Qualitative data from 11 ECAs across three D…
Exploring early career academic teacher identities: Using the audio diary method for reflection and research
Little is known about what may help early career academics reflect on everyday pedagogical interactions to develop an academic identity with a deep care for teaching. This study explored the use of the audio diary method, a promising tool that can transform the way we support pedagogical reflections among early career academics at a research-intensive university as well as generate data on university teacher identity formation. Our research invol…
Focused ethnography as an approach in medical education research
Change of practice? Change of research position
Møller, Christensen encourage us to revisit key principles of action research, reconsider the researcher’s outsider role as a means to better understand complexity in practice
Clinical Positioning Space: Residents’ Clinical Experiences in the Outpatient Oncology Clinic
In this article, we present a case study of residents' clinical experiences and communication in outpatient oncology consultations. We apply positioning theory, a dynamic alternative to role theory, to investigate how oncology residents and patients situate themselves as persons with rights and duties. Drawing from seven qualitative interviews and six days of observation, we investigate the residents' social positioning and their conversations wi…
Listening to the body? How phenomenological insights can be used to explore a golfer’s experience of the physicality of her body
Based on a single case study of a Danish elite golfer, this article focuses on describing the different ways in which the golfer experiences the physicality of her body during training. The aim of the article is to explore how phenomenological insights concerning self-consciousness can be used actively in the analyses of the golfer’s descriptions to better understand how the embodied expertise is practised in her training. The descriptions of the…
Exploring biographical learning in elite soccer coaching
Qualified and skilled sport coaches are vital to the development of sport in general and of elite sport in particular. Research suggests that the development of coaching expertise in elite sport is a complex matter involving mediated, unmediated and internal learning situations. However, it is less clear to what extent and in which ways these learning situations are woven together in the coaches' learning paths. In other words, what is the ‘gluey…
Sport or school? Dreams and dilemmas for talented young Danish football players
Today’s young semi-professional football players are expected to continue their education while honing their talents as footballers. This means they must balance the contradictory demands that come from their education establishments and their football clubs. The present study explores how young Danish male football talents experience and describe these different forces in their life space (Lewin, 1951). Data for the study are gathered using a na…
An Eye for Talent”: Talent Identification and the “Practical Sense” of Top-Level Soccer Coaches
The purpose of this study is to explore how top-level soccer coaches identify talent. I draw on Bourdieu’s work to challenge a commonly held assumption that talent identification is a rational or objective process. Analysis of in-depth interviews with eight coaches of national youth soccer teams indicated these coaches identified talent in three ways. First, coaches use their practical sense and their visual experience to recognize patterns of mo…
Biographical learning as health promotion in physical education. A Danish case study
This article presents a case study concerning biographical learning as health promotion among 16–18-year-old school girls in a Danish upper-secondary school. The case study shows a conflict in the students' perception of the learning in traditional physical education (PE) compared to a four-week pilot project employing dialogue groups as a didactic method in PE, which focused on the actual telling and listening to stories about sport and physical…
"Når alderen indhenter én": Semiotisk inspiration i analysen af kvalitative interviews om kropslighed og aldring
Mette Krogh Christensen: “When age catches up on you“: A semiologically inspired analysis of qualitative interviews about body and aging Qualitative interviews are being increasingly used in the social sciences and this development challenges certain methodological viewpoints and traditions. This article discusses the ways in which we formulate and interpret verbal expressions about bodily awareness of aging as cultural categories (Bourdieu 1986,…
Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century
The Future of Multi-Sport Mega Events Richard Cashman, University of New South Wales Troping Along: A Historian's View of Olympic Scholarship Douglas Booth, University of Otago Citius, Altius, Fortius: A Critique and a Reinterpetation Sigmund Loland, Norwegian Sports University, Oslo What's the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime? The 1936 Olympics in World Perspective Arnd Krger, University of Gttingen Acceleratin…
An Eye for Talent”: Talent Identification and the “Practical Sense” of Top-Level Soccer Coaches
The purpose of this study is to explore how top-level soccer coaches identify talent. I draw on Bourdieu’s work to challenge a commonly held assumption that talent identification is a rational or objective process. Analysis of in-depth interviews with eight coaches of national youth soccer teams indicated these coaches identified talent in three ways. First, coaches use their practical sense and their visual experience to recognize patterns of mo…
Sport or school? Dreams and dilemmas for talented young Danish football players
Today’s young semi-professional football players are expected to continue their education while honing their talents as footballers. This means they must balance the contradictory demands that come from their education establishments and their football clubs. The present study explores how young Danish male football talents experience and describe these different forces in their life space (Lewin, 1951). Data for the study are gathered using a na…
Exploring biographical learning in elite soccer coaching
Qualified and skilled sport coaches are vital to the development of sport in general and of elite sport in particular. Research suggests that the development of coaching expertise in elite sport is a complex matter involving mediated, unmediated and internal learning situations. However, it is less clear to what extent and in which ways these learning situations are woven together in the coaches' learning paths. In other words, what is the ‘gluey…
Biographical learning as health promotion in physical education. A Danish case study
This article presents a case study concerning biographical learning as health promotion among 16–18-year-old school girls in a Danish upper-secondary school. The case study shows a conflict in the students' perception of the learning in traditional physical education (PE) compared to a four-week pilot project employing dialogue groups as a didactic method in PE, which focused on the actual telling and listening to stories about sport and physical…
Clinical Positioning Space: Residents’ Clinical Experiences in the Outpatient Oncology Clinic
In this article, we present a case study of residents' clinical experiences and communication in outpatient oncology consultations. We apply positioning theory, a dynamic alternative to role theory, to investigate how oncology residents and patients situate themselves as persons with rights and duties. Drawing from seven qualitative interviews and six days of observation, we investigate the residents' social positioning and their conversations wi…
Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century
The Future of Multi-Sport Mega Events Richard Cashman, University of New South Wales Troping Along: A Historian's View of Olympic Scholarship Douglas Booth, University of Otago Citius, Altius, Fortius: A Critique and a Reinterpetation Sigmund Loland, Norwegian Sports University, Oslo What's the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime? The 1936 Olympics in World Perspective Arnd Krger, University of Gttingen Acceleratin…
"Når alderen indhenter én": Semiotisk inspiration i analysen af kvalitative interviews om kropslighed og aldring
Mette Krogh Christensen: “When age catches up on you“: A semiologically inspired analysis of qualitative interviews about body and aging Qualitative interviews are being increasingly used in the social sciences and this development challenges certain methodological viewpoints and traditions. This article discusses the ways in which we formulate and interpret verbal expressions about bodily awareness of aging as cultural categories (Bourdieu 1986,…
Biographical learning as health promotion in physical education. A Danish case study
This article presents a case study concerning biographical learning as health promotion among 16–18-year-old school girls in a Danish upper-secondary school. The case study shows a conflict in the students' perception of the learning in traditional physical education (PE) compared to a four-week pilot project employing dialogue groups as a didactic method in PE, which focused on the actual telling and listening to stories about sport and physical…
Sport or school? Dreams and dilemmas for talented young Danish football players
Today’s young semi-professional football players are expected to continue their education while honing their talents as footballers. This means they must balance the contradictory demands that come from their education establishments and their football clubs. The present study explores how young Danish male football talents experience and describe these different forces in their life space (Lewin, 1951). Data for the study are gathered using a na…
An Eye for Talent”: Talent Identification and the “Practical Sense” of Top-Level Soccer Coaches
The purpose of this study is to explore how top-level soccer coaches identify talent. I draw on Bourdieu’s work to challenge a commonly held assumption that talent identification is a rational or objective process. Analysis of in-depth interviews with eight coaches of national youth soccer teams indicated these coaches identified talent in three ways. First, coaches use their practical sense and their visual experience to recognize patterns of mo…
Exploring biographical learning in elite soccer coaching
Qualified and skilled sport coaches are vital to the development of sport in general and of elite sport in particular. Research suggests that the development of coaching expertise in elite sport is a complex matter involving mediated, unmediated and internal learning situations. However, it is less clear to what extent and in which ways these learning situations are woven together in the coaches' learning paths. In other words, what is the ‘gluey…
Listening to the body? How phenomenological insights can be used to explore a golfer’s experience of the physicality of her body
Based on a single case study of a Danish elite golfer, this article focuses on describing the different ways in which the golfer experiences the physicality of her body during training. The aim of the article is to explore how phenomenological insights concerning self-consciousness can be used actively in the analyses of the golfer’s descriptions to better understand how the embodied expertise is practised in her training. The descriptions of the…
Clinical Positioning Space: Residents’ Clinical Experiences in the Outpatient Oncology Clinic
In this article, we present a case study of residents' clinical experiences and communication in outpatient oncology consultations. We apply positioning theory, a dynamic alternative to role theory, to investigate how oncology residents and patients situate themselves as persons with rights and duties. Drawing from seven qualitative interviews and six days of observation, we investigate the residents' social positioning and their conversations wi…
Focused ethnography as an approach in medical education research
Change of practice? Change of research position
Møller, Christensen encourage us to revisit key principles of action research, reconsider the researcher’s outsider role as a means to better understand complexity in practice
Exploring early career academic teacher identities: Using the audio diary method for reflection and research
Little is known about what may help early career academics reflect on everyday pedagogical interactions to develop an academic identity with a deep care for teaching. This study explored the use of the audio diary method, a promising tool that can transform the way we support pedagogical reflections among early career academics at a research-intensive university as well as generate data on university teacher identity formation. Our research invol…
“Teaching is important, but it’s not important”: A qualitative study of teacher identity among early-career academics in health professions
Early-career academics (ECAs) constitute a substantial part of the teaching workforce in health professions education (HPE), yet their teacher identity is often marginalized in academic and clinical workplaces and may therefore remain underdeveloped. This study investigates how ECAs, with teaching responsibilities in HPE, construct and negotiate their teacher identities in relation to valuing teaching. Qualitative data from 11 ECAs across three D…
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (4 works)