About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Physical Education Theory and Methodology [Teorìâ ta Metodika Fìzičnogo Vihovannâ] is an international research-and-methodology journal established in 2000. It publishes research papers on physical education of children, teenagers and student youth, physical rehabilitation and sports training.

The purpose of the journal is to inform about and introduce the results of applied and fundamental research in physical education and sports.

The journal accepts research papers in:

  • theory and methods of teaching movements;
  • physical education of children and teenagers;
  • sports training of children and youth;
  • physical culture in school;
  • physical culture in prevention and treatment of diseases in children and teenagers;
  • theory and methods of professional training of physical culture teachers;
  • legal framework of physical culture in Ukraine.

The Editorial Board primarily considers submissions focusing on physical education or sports training, or physical rehabilitation; containing a simulated experimental situation, clearly defined independent variables (factors controlled in the experiment are indicators that characterize the process of physical education or sports training, or physical rehabilitation), as well as dependent variables that characterize the effectiveness of the experimental training program; medicobiological, psychophysiological, and psychological indicators used in the study provide additional information to explain the effectiveness of the experimental training program.

 

Publication Frequency

6 issues per year

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. 

The electronic version of the journal is enlisted in V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.