Contribution of TPSR scholarship and practice to social justice

This article contributes to the special issue that aims to explore the transformative potential of the socially just TPSR approach. We write as members of the TPSR Alliance community of practice and draw on our experience and relationships to consider how Hellison and the TPSR model relates to social justice in education. We highlight that TPSR scholarship has a long history of working in communities that are experiencing injustice. We provide several examples of TPSR programs and approaches that advance social justice and describe ways that the model evolved alongside the urban education movement in the United States. A major contribution to social justice in physical education has been the longstanding work of TPSR scholars and practitioners in a wide range of communities that are experiencing injustices. When mindful of presentism, TPSR has implications for scholarship on social justice in physical education.