Intramural sports

School sport means the combination of sport and exercise- related activities in the school. In addition to the compulsory physical education for school sports as well as voluntary associations, school sporting competition events, national sporting events, sports events, hiking days or school trips with sporty emphasis (eg, ski lessons, biking ), pause sports and school-based competition offers such as youth training for the Olympics or the Floorball Cup.

Objectives

The basis is the assumption that movement, games and sport - thus the school sports - make a fundamental and indispensable contribution to the physical, social, cognitive and emotional development of students. Therefore, comprehensive curricula are drawn up for physical education, the detailed objectives, content and methods of the subject describe ( Physical Education - Educational perspectives and movement fields). It is based on the dual mission; is meant by an education sport to sport and education ( personal development ).

This interdisciplinary education priorities such as health promotion, social and educational values ​​have a high priority.

School sports in Germany

Ministries of education and KMK

Responsible for school sport and the ministries of education of the individual provinces, the curricula and approaches to curricular and extra-curricular sports are initially adopted. Having them be specific scientific findings of the Education and Sport Pedagogy as a branch of sports science.

German Olympic Sports Confederation and school sports

At federal level, the German Olympic Sports Confederation brings his ideas about school sport in various committees and working groups ( Commission school sports; Contact Commission DOSB - KMK; Action Alliance school sports ). Every year a DOSB school sports prize is awarded. In the frame of reference for school sport 1999 full demands are being made, including:

  • A minimum 3 -hour - if possible in individual lessons - members compulsory instruction in the general education
  • A minimum one-hour compulsory education sport in the part-time vocational schools
  • A qualified university teacher training
  • An appropriate setting of PE teachers / inside
  • Regular training for teachers / inside
  • A monitoring and evaluation by appropriate school sports research for binding and verifiable sizes, contents in and qualifications for school sport.

School sport survey 2004/2005

On 13 December 2004, the results of the study " physical education in Germany " were the DSB SPRINT study presented. There were low grades for school sport.

Every fourth gym class turns out, the teachers are too old, to be taught, often boring, or simply not up to date. " The usual three sports hours per week are only on paper, but are not granted ," DSB president Manfred von Richthofen criticized those responsible for education policies in the countries. About 8800 students aged between ten and 15 years of age, more than 1,150 physical education teachers and 100 school managers, and 4350 parents who participated in the unprecedented study - and criticized the sports lessons at Germany's schools as inadequate.

The study referred to information from questionnaires that were filled out by students, parents, PE teachers and principals. It remained the most problematic for the sport of schools as a special school or vocational school disregarded. In these types of schools of education failure and the unattractiveness of physical education is considerable.

On 5 July 2005, the comprehensive final report of the study was presented, which confirmed the initial results.

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