An investigation into the gain in knowledge of, attitudes towards and confidence to deliver a games-based Physical Literacy concept in practitioners across the UK

Physical Literacy (PL) is a key consideration in the Physical Activity (PA) and learning landscape. Facilitating PL through practitioner education has emerged as a viable avenue to promote PL and subsequently PA in young people. This spoken presentation presents the first findings from an evaluative project exploring a practitioner education programme forced on PL called Boing. Current knowledge and confidence of practitioner to deliver is poor across the UK. However, workshop training was found to be effective at improving knowledge, confidence and attitude. Further research is required to established how this translates into the practitioners practice

Concentration or representation : the struggle for popular sovereignty

There is a tension in the notion of popular sovereignty, and the notion of democracy associated with it, that is both older than our terms for these notions themselves and more fundamental than the apparently consensual way we tend to use them today. After a review of the competing conceptions of 'the people' that underlie two very different understandings of democracy, this article will defend what might be called a 'neo-Jacobin' commitment to popular sovereignty, understood as the formulation and imposition of a shared political will. A people's egalitarian capacity to concentrate both its collective intelligence and force, from this perspective, takes priority over concerns about how best to represent the full variety of positions and interests that differentiate and divide a community