ZSF Zeitschrift für sportpädagogische Forschung

The study reconstructs dynamics of individual, subject-related orientations of pre-service physical education teachers using a subject-cultural perspective. The orientations were researched in their fitting with cultural fields such as the...

In Switzerland, the activity in sports of girls and young women has increased in recent years. Boys and young men are still comparatively more active in sports (Lamprecht et al., 2021). Since physical education (PE) is an important socialisation...

Through language, students in Physical Education can be motivated and empowered, but also marginalised and discriminated against. Language thus plays a powerful role in the teaching process, which, however, has hardly been examined empirically for...

In the discourse of physical education (PE) on cognitive activation (as a generic dimension of teaching quality), the question of a subject-specific interpretation becomes virulent. In addition to linguistic processes of reflection on movement and...

This article aims to reconstruct subjective shame experiences of students in inclusive physical education. For this purpose, five students with and without a special educational focus on mental development from a secondary school and a community...

In German-language publications, the concept of professional vision in the context of student differences has recently gained increasing relevance and has also found its way into the discourse on sports education. It encompasses teachers'...

As a practice of field research, the different varieties of ethnography have now largely established themselves in German-speaking sports pedagogy and sports sociology. Against this background, this article first provides a brief overview of field...

Physical education (PE) teachers faced great challenges in teaching during the pandemic-related distance learning. Based on subject culture theory and including empirical findings on physical education from the perspective of physical education...

In the discourse on competences across educational settings, requirement situations form a central starting point for theoretical, didactical and empirical implications. For many educational settings, including coach education, there is no...

Peer relationships are relevant factors for various educational constructs, particularly in the context of physical education. However, conventional research paradigms have mainly focused on individual-level characteristics and attributes, rather...

At the beginning of their studies students of physical education are not "blank slates". On the contrary, they have a wide range of sports-related experiences from school and clubs as well as associated ideas, so-called pre-concepts, about...

Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) has been present in the international discussions on the teaching of (sports) games in many countries for 40 years. In the German-speaking scientific community of sports pedagogy and didactics, however, this...