Current Research, Emerging Trends, Gaps, and Opportunities in Physical Education in the ASEAN Context

Abstract

This chapter determines the state of research in physical education from 2017 to 2021 among ASEAN countries using literature review and bibliometric analysis. Published papers in the Scopus database were considered and analyzed after data cleaning and preprocessing. Results reported a total of 119 papers that comprised the dataset and were mostly dominated by Indonesian institutions, specifically topped by Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Most papers were conducted in schools with students as common samples. Through the aid of literature review, the self-reported questionnaire, cross-sectional design, and generalizability of the findings were recorded as the identified gaps in PE studies within the last five years in the ASEAN. Therefore, longitudinal studies and other novel approaches are suggested for future research undertakings. This chapter provides a glimpse of the current ASEAN context in PE research but likewise calls for an intercontinental exploration for future works.