Research on Physical Education and School Sport in Europe

This book is divided into three parts: Part A includes general items of development of PESS in Europe. Part B comprises 17 different country reviews all written by national experts. Part C documents comparative analyses of the country reviews about national school systems; development of compulsory PESS; aims and objectives of current PESS curricula; promotion of active learning with physical activity; extra-curricular settings at school and outside schools in collaboration with active communities; purpose, structure, aims, and objectives of PESS teacher training; current research and findings of PESS studies; and finally, recommendations for new EU-based PESS research studies.

Roland Naul helds office as a senior professor for European Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport at the Institute of Sport & Exercise Sciences at Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Germany, since 2013. His main research areas are physical education and school sport, including Olympic education and youth sport development. He serves as deputy president of the International Willibald-Gebhardt Research Institute (NGO, Germany), a registered Olympic Study Centre, and secretary general of the European Council of Research in Physical Education and School Sport (CEREPS, NGO, Luxembourg). Claude Scheuer works as a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg for the Institute for Teaching and Learning at the Department of Education and Social Work (DESW). Starting in the winter semester 2019/20, he has been the study director of the new certificate of Physical Activity and Physical Education in formal and non-formal educational settings. His research is focused on basic motor competencies of children and adolescents and on active schools. Since 2011, he has served as president of EUPEA (European Physical Education Association), which is the umbrella organization for more than 30 European Physical Education teacher associations. Furthermore, he is an executive board member in ICSSPE (International Council of School Sports and Physical Education) and president of CEREPS (Conseil Européen de Recherche en Éducation Physique et Sportive), which he co-founded with Prof. Dr. Roland Naul in 2015.

Table of Contents Preface............................................. 8 Roland Naul Introduction...................................................................10 Roland Naul & Claude Scheuer PART A Historical Roots and Strands of Physical Education and School Sport Development in Europe.......................................22 Roland Naul & Claude Scheuer PART B Development and Research of Physical Education and School Sport in Europe.......................................37 CHAPTER ONE Physical Education and School Sport in Croatia............................................38 Vilko Petric, Iva Blaževic, Dario Novak CHAPTER TWO Physical Education and School Sport in the Czech Republic.....................59 Ludmila Fialova CHAPTER THREE Research on Physical Education and School Sport in Finland...................90 Arja Saakslahti CHAPTER FOUR Germany: Home of Curricular and Extra-Curricular School Sport.......... 106 Roland Naul, Heinz Aschebrock, David Niehues, Till Utesch CHAPTER FIVE Physical Education and School Sport in Greece...........................................155 Manolis Adamakis, Aspasia Dania CHAPTER SIX Sport, Physical Activity and Physical Education in the Republic of Ireland......................... 190 Fiona C. Chambers, Thomas Vermes CHAPTER SEVEN Physical Education and School Sport in Italy...............................................210 Caterina Pesce, Anna Motta, Rosalba Marchetti & Mario Bellucci CHAPTER EIGHT Research on Physical Education and School Sport in Lithuania............ 253 Brigita Mieziene, Arunas Emeljanovas CHAPTER NINE Physical Education and School Sport in Luxembourg............................... 273 Claude Scheuer CHAPTER TEN Physical Education and School Sport in the Netherlands........................ 302 Jo Lucassen, Dorien Dijk CHAPTER ELEVEN Physical Education and School Sport in the Republic of North Macedonia.................................... 333 Biljana Popeska, Aleksandar Tufekcievski & Aleksandar Aceski CHAPTER TWELVE Physical Education and Sport Studies in Norway....................................... 361 Jorunn Spord Borgen, Kjersti Mordal Moen, Bjorg Oddrun Hallas, Knut Londal, Egil Galaaen Gjolme CHAPTER THIRTEEN Development of Physical Education and Sport Research in Poland...... 392 Michal Bronikowski, Dorota Groffik, Regina Kumala, Agata Glapa CHAPTER FOURTEEN Physical Education and School Sport in Portugal.......................................415 Marcos Onofre, Joao Costa, Joao Martins, & Ana. Quiterio CHAPTER FIFTEEN Physical Education and School Sport in Slovakia....................................... 447 Branislav Antala, Gabriela Luptakova CHAPTER SIXTEEN Physical Education and School Sport in Slovenia........................................471 Gregor Jurak, Gregor Starc, Marjeta Kovac CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Physical Education, School Sport and Sport Sciences in Spain.............. 493 Antonio Calderon, Jose Luis Arias-Estero, David Hortiguela, Monica Aznar, Antonio Fraile, Antonio Mendez-Gimenez, Javier Fernandez-Rio, Daniel N. Ardoy, Manuel Abreu, Javier Castejon, David Gutierrez Diaz del Campo, Luis M. Garcia-Lopez PART C Comparative Analysis of Physical Education and School Sport Development and Research in Europe............................... 520 Roland Naul & Claude Scheuer List of Authors................................................................... 545