This abstract book contains summaries of all keynotes and individual contributions within the ‘International Overview’ and ‘PETE’ sessions, and 39 abstracts from the ‘mini-orals’ on original research, projects and initiatives on PE assessment. The AIESEP Specialist Seminar ‘Future Directions in PE …

Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

Research to indicators to build a typology of virtual communities in organized sports.

In this paper we examine policy texts in three European societies to consider the ways in which they construct a view of how each society ensures the production of knowledgeable professionals. Based on an analysis of national policy texts in England, Germany and the Netherlands, we argue that there are …

Conference abstract and presentation of research to voluntary sports clubs and virtual community building through social networking sites.