Physical contact in physical education, sports coaching and the preschool – a scoping review

Physical contact between adults and children in educational setting has been a well debated subject research over the past 20 years. Although physical is often regarded as an important pedagogical tool, it given rise to increased awareness amongst sports coaches, education preschool teachers about possible negative consequences of its use these settings. The aim this article map current literature on education, coaching identify gaps by means scoping review, i.e. after years field intergenerational touch what can be said known are there research? questions are: (i) Which journals, countries, settings, theories methods represented field? (ii) central themes knowledge identified? results show that expanded significantly last years, both terms number published articles, countries journals which articles topic have published. identified included review cover following topics: fears related contact, resistance, cultural differences, functions needs professional identity teachers. It concluded studies could lead forward would ideally focus intersectionality, or how practitioners’ impact their work with students.