Author Description

Introduction: the Nordic model and physical culture / Mikkel B. Tin, Frode Telseth, Jan Ove Tangen -- Creating new sport policy: the case of Finnish schools on the move / Kati Lehtonen and Kaarlo Laine -- Nature in the history of physical education and in the lives of Norwegians today / Pål Augestad -- Let's move: embodiment, leadership, and dance in education / Helle Winther -- Exploring democratic relations in higher dance education: a case study / Gunn Engelsrud and Camilla Myhre -- Changing constructions of childhood challenging the Swedish sport model: 'football was for fun, I exercise for my health' / Susanna Hedenborg -- The roots of Icelandic physical culture and sport in the Saga age / Thorolfur Thorlindsson and Vidar Halldorsson -- The Finnish sport system in transition: from a mixed model back to the Nordic sport movement? / Kati Lehtonen and Jarmo Mäkinen -- Discourses on the legitimate understanding of Norwegian and Nordic elite sport: theoretical reflections on an empirical case / Nils Asle Bergsgard and Frode Telseth -- The Johaug doping case: public reactions and sociological explanations / Jan Ove Tangen and Bieke Gils -- Scandinavian friluftsliv (outdoor life) and the Nordic model: passions and paradoxes / Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt and Per Ingvar Haukeland -- Nature is the new culture: the active body as a citizen typology on the rise / Even Smith Wergeland -- Water competence and new Norwegians: outdoor teaching as an inclusive-exclusive learning space / Egil Galaaen Gjølme, Jon Sundan, Tone Pernille Østern, and Sunniva Hovde -- Public parks in the North: designed to liberate or discipline our moving bodies? / Mikkel B. Tin -- Afterword: the Nordic model and physical cultures in the global context / Richard Giulianotti.