Students running on a track during physical education class

Quality campaign for physical education teacher education (PETE)

A project to increase the quality of physical education and teacher education (PETE) as it relates to professional and cultural diversity (2016-2023).

Since early 2016, our group has been participating in the research project "Quality campaign for PETE", sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In this project, experts from 15 subject areas at the University of Bayreuth involved in PETE are working on an overall concept on the topic of "professional and cultural diversity in schools and universities" in order to increase the quality and attractiveness of PETE. Within the project, the Chair in Social & Health Sciences in Sport group focuses on cultural diversity in PETE.

Title: Kulturelle Diversität im Sportunterricht und der Sportlehrerbildung, Teilprojekt im Rahmen der „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“
Funding agency: BMBF
Project management: DLR Project Management
Project period: 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Involvement: As part of the “Quality Initiative for Teacher Education,” 15 disciplines involved in teacher education are working on an overarching concept that leverages the diversity of learners—particularly in terms of subject-specific competencies and cultural backgrounds—as a resource for educational processes in schools and universities.
Main contact at UBT: Prof. Dr. Volker Ulm (Chair of Mathematics and its Didactics, Chair of the Center for Teacher Education)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Tittlbach
Project staff: Lena Jungheim and Robert Warnecke
Cooperation partner: School network on the topic of “diversity” in the Upper Franconia region. Depending on the interests of the participating schools, subject-specific topics are addressed in individual subjects with various schools.

Overall objective
Prospective teachers should be prepared for school practice with a focus on inclusive education. The thematic focus is on dealing constructively with the diversity of learners.

Sports Subproject
In the subject of physical education, the emphasis is on developing teaching concepts to promote intercultural competence in schools and universities, with a special focus on the possibilities offered by inquiry-based learning and open classroom instruction. Research is conducted here on how cultural diversity can be leveraged as an advantage in physical education.

Title: Kulturelle Diversität im Sportunterricht und der Sportlehrerbildung, Teilprojekt im Rahmen der „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“
Funding agency: BMBF
Project management: DLR Project Management
Project period: 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Involvement: As part of the “Quality Initiative for Teacher Education,” 15 disciplines involved in teacher education are working on an overarching concept that leverages the diversity of learners—particularly in terms of subject-specific competencies and cultural backgrounds—as a resource for educational processes in schools and universities.
Main contact at UBT: Prof. Dr. Volker Ulm (Chair of Mathematics and its Didactics, Chair of the Center for Teacher Education)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Susanne Tittlbach
Project staff: Lena Jungheim and Robert Warnecke
Cooperation partner: School network on the topic of “diversity” in the Upper Franconia region. Depending on the interests of the participating schools, subject-specific topics are addressed in individual subjects with various schools.

Overall objective
Prospective teachers should be prepared for school practice with a focus on inclusive education. The thematic focus is on dealing constructively with the diversity of learners.

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