Research on Physical Education and School Sport in Europe

Roland Naul helds office as a Senior Professor for European Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Münster, Germany. For more than 30 years he worked as a Professor for Sport Science and Sport Pedagogy at the University of Essen, Germany. His main research area is physical education including Olympic education and youth sport development. He is Deputy President of the Willibald Gebhardt Research Institute (NGO) and General Secretary of CEREPS (Conseil Européen de la Recherche en Éducation Physique et Sportive). Claude Scheuer works at the University of Luxembourg for the research unit ECCS (Education, Culture, Cognition and Society) at the Institute of Applied Educational Sciences (AES. He teaches in the primary school teacher education program (BScE: Bachelor of Educational Sciences) after having worked before as a PE teacher in primary and secondary school for 13 years. His research is focused on basic motor competences of children and adolescents and on active school settings. Claude Scheuer is member of the board of the Luxembourgish teacher association (APEP) and since 2011 he has been the president of EUPEA (European Physical Education Association), which is the umbrella organization for more than 30 European PE teacher associations. In addition to this, he is the Vice Delegate for Luxembourg for FIEP Europe (Fédération Internationale de l’Education Physique) and since 2013 Executive Board Member in ICSSPE (International Council of School Sports and Physical Education). In 2015 Claude Scheuer co-founded CEREPS (Conseil Européen de la Recherche en Éducation Physique et Sportive) together with Professor Roland Naul.

Table of ContentsPreface............................................. 8Roland NaulIntroduction...................................................................10Roland Naul & Claude ScheuerPART AHistorical Roots and Strands of Physical Education and School Sport Development in Europe.......................................22Roland Naul & Claude ScheuerPART BDevelopment and Research of Physical Education and School Sport in Europe.......................................37CHAPTER ONEPhysical Education and School Sport in Croatia............................................38Vilko Petric, Iva Blazevic, Dario NovakCHAPTER TWOPhysical Education and School Sport in the Czech Republic.....................59Ludmila FialovaCHAPTER THREEResearch on Physical Education and School Sport in Finland...................90Arja SaakslahtiCHAPTER FOURGermany: Home of Curricular and Extra-Curricular School Sport.......... 106Roland Naul, Heinz Aschebrock, David Niehues, Till UteschCHAPTER FIVEPhysical Education and School Sport in Greece...........................................155Manolis Adamakis, Aspasia DaniaCHAPTER SIXSport, Physical Activity and Physical Education in the Republic of Ireland......................... 190Fiona C. Chambers, Thomas VermesCHAPTER SEVENPhysical Education and School Sport in Italy...............................................210Caterina Pesce, Anna Motta, Rosalba Marchetti & Mario BellucciCHAPTER EIGHTResearch on Physical Education and School Sport in Lithuania............ 253Brigita Mieziene, Arunas EmeljanovasCHAPTER NINEPhysical Education and School Sport in Luxembourg............................... 273Claude ScheuerCHAPTER TENPhysical Education and School Sport in the Netherlands........................ 302Jo Lucassen, Dorien DijkCHAPTER ELEVENPhysical Education and School Sport in the Republic of North Macedonia.................................... 333Biljana Popeska, Aleksandar Tufekcievski & Aleksandar AceskiCHAPTER TWELVEPhysical Education and Sport Studies in Norway....................................... 361Jorunn Spord Borgen, Kjersti Mordal Moen, Bjorg Oddrun Hallas, Knut Londal,Egil Galaaen GjolmeCHAPTER THIRTEENDevelopment of Physical Education and Sport Research in Poland...... 392Michal Bronikowski, Dorota Groffik, Regina Kumala, Agata GlapaCHAPTER FOURTEENPhysical Education and School Sport in Portugal.......................................415Marcos Onofre, Joao Costa, Joao Martins, & Ana. QuiterioCHAPTER FIFTEENPhysical Education and School Sport in Slovakia....................................... 447Branislav Antala, Gabriela LuptakovaCHAPTER SIXTEENPhysical Education and School Sport in Slovenia........................................471Gregor Jurak, Gregor Starc, Marjeta KovacCHAPTER SEVENTEENPhysical Education, School Sport and Sport Sciences in Spain.............. 493Antonio Calderon, Jose Luis Arias-Estero, David Hortiguela, Monica Aznar, AntonioFraile, Antonio Mendez-Gimenez, Javier Fernandez-Rio, Daniel N. Ardoy, ManuelAbreu, Javier Castejon, David Gutierrez Diaz del Campo, Luis M. Garcia-LopezPART CComparative Analysis of Physical Education and School Sport Development and Research in Europe............................... 520Roland Naul & Claude ScheuerList of Authors................................................................... 545