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What's Happening in Germany


Research Project on TGfU in Teacher Education just before the Finish Line

​Although the basic principles of game sense models were published nearly forty years ago (Bunker & Thorpe, 1982) TGfU and related models have rarely been implemented into teacher education in Germany and Switzerland. As a consequence, lessons in Physical Education are mainly conducted by either implementing drills for skills or games, but a sensible combination as proposed by TGfU is missing.
Before that background Jürg Baumberger and Stefan König, in cooperation with their respective teams, have conducted a binational research project which aimed at analysing factors for success and for failure when teaching games in physical education. The complete research design is displayed in figure 1.
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Figure 1. Research tasks (T = wave of data collection) and timeline of the project.
​After a time period of nearly 18 months the Universities of Education in Weingarten and Zürich are now close to the post and are going to prepare a presentation for Worcester 2021. All in all, the results show a great deal of important things potential teachers can look at, when planning and conducting their lessons.

Recent Publications

Heemsoth, T., Boe L., Bükers, F. & Krieger, C. (2020): Fostering pre-service teachers’ knowledge of ‘teaching games for understanding’ via videobased vs. text-based teaching examples. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, DOI:
10.1080/17408989.2020.1850668

Baumberger, J., König, S. & Bislin, S. (in print). Sportspielvermittlung: Gelingens- und Misslingensfaktoren [Teaching games: Factors for Success and Failure]. SportPraxis, 62(2).

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