This article examines how fan communities across SA strengthen democratic accountability, sustain collective memory, and contribute to broader struggles for justice and democracy through everyday forms of resistance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @fairplaybooks.bsky.social #openacess

We should stop trying to get things right and start trying to make things better - Richard Rorty

This world is not made of shades of grey. It is made of colours like azure and coral and emerald and marigold. But it insists on painting everything in black and white and fitting it into boxes that it understands. Do not do that to yourself.

‘The future is shaped by us, it’s not something handed to us’ (Paulo Freire, as he refused to accept that history could not be changed by human actions and insisted on the educational mission of denouncing the current oppressive state of societies, while announcing a better future)

Why the West needs migrants, from Pedro Sanchez, PM of 🇪🇸. I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

It’s been terrific to launch 'A Critical History of Health, Sport and PE' at #AARE2025 alongside #MichelleGorzanelli. We had insightful discussions and a few lucky attendees scored a hard copy of the book! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us to help celebrate this special moment

NEW OA PUB ALERT! Thrilled to collaborate with t brilliant #MarionSturges on this study exploring how young children creatively redefine and subvert play spaces in early childhood centres @australianare.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #DemocraticEducation #SpatialMapping #LetTheyPlay

'Cependant c'est la veille. Recevons tous les influx de vigueur et de tendresse réelle. Et à l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides villes.' ( Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer)

OPEN ACCESS!! In this paper we employed historical newspaper archivers through the virtual Hemeroteca of the National Library, to show the interconnection between football & eugenics & how these 2 forces intertwined to shape a new national identity in Brazil www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘No conclusion of scientific research can be converted into an immediate rule of educational art’ (John Dewey)

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement. Karl Popper

“If all of your ideas are correct, will there be room to add new information? Can you pour any more liquid into a full cup?” ― Eric Overby

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” (Karl Popper)

New paper alert! Gr8 collaboration with Carioca partners to discuss how media represents sports and homosexuality - and the educational implications of this process journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (inbox if u want a full pdf) @aare-gscs.bsky.social @netflix.com @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

Look what just arrived ! 🥳I mean , PDFs are great but there is nothing like holding the printed copy of your own book in your hands !hashtag#abookisabookisabook #hardcopies #healtheducation #physicaleducation #schoolsport #curriculum @springer.springernature.com @cpaterso.bsky.social

Our new book employs a conceptual historiographic methodology to unveil complex socio-historical relationships in the making of school curricula @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com @stewartriddle.com @westernsydneyu.bsky.social @ecer-eera.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! Gr8 partnership with the brilliant #MichelleGorzanelli to examine the relationship between educational history and broader societal and political ideas and movements @australianare.bsky.social @bedforda1.bsky.social @profruthjeanes.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#update! I'll send 3 lemon ice poles from Australia to the first 90 people who can tell which is my new book among all my #bookcovers

and now with the link for the whole thing :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbJ...

Happy to join #CraigFoster & our multicultural football communities to discuss the joys and challenges of the game. Catch my segment around 3:00 on SBS as we celebrate #SBS50 ⚽ #MulticulturalAustralia @fairplaybooks.bsky.social @footballcollective.bsky.social @footpolpodcast.bsky.social

New OA paper discussing #sport #feminism in #GlobalSouth contexts, partnership with the fabulous #YokoKanemasu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Imagine an ignorance that resists, an ignorance that fights back, an ignorance militant, aggressive (...)active, dynamic,that refuses 2 go quietly,not at all confined 2 t uneducated but propagated at t highest levels of t land,indeed presenting itself unblushingly as knowledge.Charles Mills extract)

We don't need to prepare students for the future; we need to embolden them to create it. #democraticeducation #untestedfeasibility #PauloFreire

The essential principle is to have confidence in your team and empower them with the freedom to initiate transformation from the grassroots level. Share authority wherever possible #bottomup #radicaldemocracy #notwhatIseehappening

Nossa pátria é nossa língua?? Viva Camões, Bernardo Soares, Cecilia Meirelles - e Caetano!!

A few weeks ago @janehunter2025.bsky.social @cpaterso.bsky.social & I concluded a study on #education #democracy in the Australian media over the past decade. This looks quite relevant considering the #federalelection @australianare.bsky.social researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/publicati...

Hip hip hooray! #academiclife #fiji #brazil #globalsouth #sociologyofsport

"A velocidade excessiva pulveriza a vida, não a torna mais intensa. A sabedoria nos pede para perder tempo" (Papa Francisco) #RIPHermano #PapaHermano le mando un fuerte abrazo a Maradona y a Quino. #SanLorenzo

It was great fun and lots of learning presenting #ManlyWF25 in t weekend! Festival organizers were superb, everything was très chic! Personal success was seeing my book displayed side by side to books of t greatest Indigenous academic & leader John Maynard & t amazing storyteller Blanche d'Alpuget.

In my latest article #TGlobePost I discuss the political-cultural implications of the movie #iamstillhere for the Brazilian people #Oscar #eunice theglobepost.com/2025/03/17/d... @ferhaag.bsky.social #democracy #aindaestouaqui #fernandatorres @galfrontal.bsky.social @copaalemdacopa.bsky.social

The @manlywritersfest.bsky.social is just 3 weeks away! Get ready for a literary feast packed with stories, revolutionary ideas and plenty of football and food for thought + surprises you won't want to miss! manlyobserver.com.au/soccer-sunda... @footballcollective.bsky.social @garyjames.bsky.social

Please take a moment to admire and bow to Marta's beauty for her team, the Orlando Pride. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfZN... You can learn more about one of the greatest football players in history in my book 'The World Cup Chronicles' www.amazon.com.au/World-Cup-Ch... #marta #nswl #womenfootball

Best Festival Writers in town! On a nice beach in a great Autumn weather! I wouldn't miss it for anything! And as the cherry on top, a dedicated 'football writers' day! @janehunter2025.bsky.social @sssharc.bsky.social @rossfootball.bsky.social @nicolemockler.bsky.social #manlywritersfestival

So happy to see this collaboration with the terrific #EvaMoura finally getting published ☯️ The pedagogy of autonomy can be an essential theoretical and practical framework to build hope within S4D programs within these neoliberal times. It's OPEN ACCESS here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Muy feliz y agradecido por la oportunidad de escribir en Español sobre mi libro 'Tales of South American Football' en la comunidad de educación física y deporte más grande de América Latina. ¡Gracias Tulio! @fairplaybooks.bsky.social @copaalemdacopa.bsky.social www.efdeportes.com/efdeportes/i...

@ferhaag.bsky.social @ludopedio.bsky.social @copaalemdacopa.bsky.social @mmmarivantine.bsky.social @olgabagatini.bsky.social ja colocaram em dia as suas leituras futebolisticas para 2025? So' biscoito fino nessa editora, inclusive meu ultimo livro 😎 feliz ano novo!!!

#fernandatorres #globodeouroehnosso #goldenglobes #aindaestouaqui #eunicepaiva #rubenspaiva #verocapaiva #aindaestamosaqui

A sabedoria está nos detalhes, nas entrelinhas, no silêncio, no que não foi dito e que não pode ser medido. Tostão

Mais saudades! Mas vamos sempre falar de seu bandolim! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hEo... #semprepresente #seeusoubesse

'E da tempestade, o sol nascerá'. Que saudades de um bom samba no morro, que saudades de alvorecer cantando Cartola! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wirc... #mpb #cartola #jacobdobandolim #naquelamesa

Sociology of education SIG #AARE2024 building strong foundations to promote #educationalrights #democracy @cpaterso.bsky.social @janehunter2025.bsky.social @bedforda1.bsky.social

Now the sky is becoming bluer! I've just found @janehunter2025.bsky.social here! One of the founding mothers of twitter, the one who everyone who is intelligent, handsome & democrat follows, is now tweeting (or how do we say posting here? blueskying 😁?). Long life to @janehunter2025.bsky.social !

Still a few free copies of this paper that uses #PauloFreire concepts of courage and hope to analyse #distopyanschooling models in South America www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MAANS... (if this link does not work and u run into a paywall please inbox and I'll send you a PDF).

World's best football publisher here! With the best books as well!!! Get some - or all of them 😀 - for the festive season!!! 🎅

First #openaccess @bsky.app #blueskyacademic discussing gender, race, class, religiosity & #sport in #fiji with the brilliants #rohinibalram & #bonniepang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... when will the big publishers come to @bsky.app ? I'm having fun here 😋 but missing #fiji flag emoji 🤭

Last one for today gr8 work with colleagues from the #UnitedKingdom #Indonesia to discuss how #footballfans fans interact and #bond 50 free copies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/APCYY... @footballcollective.bsky.social @footpolpodcast.bsky.social @footycon.bsky.social

Feeling generous today 😁 more #freeaccess for the first lucky 50 people to download this central discussion on how to foster intercultural awareness in Chinese universities with the brilliant #WenXu www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TNHCB... @australianare.bsky.social

First time sharing #freeaccess in @bsky.app ! Hope it will go swiftly 😀 It's been nice working with Brazilian and New Zealand partners to create this heuristic tool to analyse #HPETE programs in the #SouthernHemisphere www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YSFP2... @australianare.bsky.social