Welcome to the Associate Professorship of Didactics in Sport and Health

The physical education (PE) teacher is a decisive factor for PE development and teaching. Reflecting on and making the best possible use of the PE teachers’ personal resources positively influence teacher… [more]

Physical Education (PE) aims to convey the joy of exercise and by this educate students to lifelong physical activeness. Student motivation in PE decreases during the school career. This study therefore… [more]

Physical activity (PA) in school physical education (PE) is a signature component of health promotion and health education. The study's aim was to explore PA levels and sedentary time in German elementary school… [more]

Background: In Zimbabwe, an estimated 500,000 people work in the sector of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). Two million Zimbabweans are dependent on this sector. Using mercury is common to extract… [more]

Seit diesem Herbst verstärken wieder zwei neue Mitglieder*innen das Team der Sport- und Gesundheitsdidaktik. Jan Ellinger ist seit 15. September Mitglied des Teams und arbeitet gemeinsam mit Christoph Becker im… [more]

Students' personality is an essential component in order to plan and teach physical education (PE) lessons according to students' individual needs. Additionally, personality formation in general is part of the… [more]

Pathogenetisches Denken, Ohnmachtsgefühle, Ängste und Vorurteile – diese Schlagworte charakterisieren leider nach wie vor den Blick auf Menschen mit Demenz und auch den Umgang mit ihnen. Damit räumt das für den… [more]

Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) has been applied as a core concept for understanding and promoting students' motivation in physical education (PE) and shows considerable relevance for theoretically and empirically… [more]

Getreu dem Motto der Kollegen der hochschuldidaktischen Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebote der LMU (ProfiL), haben Alina Kirch und Melina Schnitzius (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen des Lehrstuhls mit… [more]

In collaboration with Jan Jírovec and Martin Musálek from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, the current paper in Frontiers in Pediatrics on the topic Compatibility… [more]