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Sport education: fit for a purpose

Vanessa Ratten, Paul Jones Orcid Logo

Education + Training, Volume: 60, Issue: 5, Pages: 370 - 374

Swansea University Author: Paul Jones Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1108/ET-06-2018-209

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This is the guest Editorial for a special issue exploring sports education.Purpose: The purpose of this article is to introduce an entrepreneurial learning approach to thestudy of sport education in order to inform future research directions.Design/methodology/approach: Sport education needs to focu...

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ISSN: 0040-0912
Published: 2018
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