The International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES) founded in 1978. Its purpose still is to support, encourage and provide assistance to those seeking to initiate and strengthen research and teaching programs in comparative physical education and sport throughout the world.
Specifically, ISCPES delivers research findings through its associate Scopus índexed journal – International Sport Studies (ISS).
For that reason we are also member of international organizations having complementary goals, such as ICSSPE – International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education – through which ISCPES members can reach a much wider resource network on these themes.
Organizing and arranging several meetings, ISCPES brings together people from around the world working in comparative physical education and sport issues publications.
The scope of the Society’s academic mandate is affected by member’s interests and research needs. Members are drawn from all the sub-disciplines of sport sciences and united by an interest in cross-cultural and international issues.
The society defines comparative study as investigation into and comparison of two or more units such as: countries, cultures, ideologies, regions, states, systems, institutions, populations or methodologies. The phenomena to be compared include all elements of physical education and sport models, programmes and practices in a macro or micro context. Such phenomena are universal, but cross-culturally and cross nationally they differ in focus and substance requiring mixed methodologies. The Society promotes the examination of issues related to the study of regions, nations and cultures, education for internationalism, sport and development and physical education as a human right.