Education and culture in sport
© Eike Boll
Education and culture in sport
© Eike Boll
Education and culture in sport
© Eike Boll
Education and culture in sport
© Eike Boll

Welcome in the Department of Education and Culture

Welcome to the Department of Education and Culture in Sport at the Institute of Sport Science at the Universität Münster. The research area was established in the winter semester 2022/23 and thus represents the most recent expansion at the Institute of Sport Science and underlines the importance of a qualified (initial) education of future sport teachers.
In teaching and research, we deal with sports pedagogical issues that primarily relate to school sports, i.e. to physical education and other extracurricular activities (e.g. class trips with a sports focus, physical activity programs in all-day programs, etc.) that complement or deepen physical education pedagogically. One focus of our work is the education and training of physical education teachers and the support of their professional development, because not only future teachers, but also those who are already in the profession, are constantly confronted with social transformations that also have an impact on physical education. More recently, the right of all children and adolescents to participate in the general school system ("inclusion"), but also ongoing migration movements, for example, have brought the heterogeneity of the student body into focus. However, the ubiquitous availability of digital media is also changing the face of (school) sport and the associated sport pedagogical requirements, which we are contributing to researching on the one hand and for which we are developing training concepts on the other, in order to prepare pedagogical specialists appropriately.
On the following pages you will find further information on our research areas, on topics related to teaching as well as on the team of the department. We hope that you will find all the information you need on our homepage. If you still have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us directly!
 

News

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2nd asp theme day ‘Hate speech in the social media

 
At the 2nd asp theme day ‘Hate Speech in Social Media’ at the DSHS Cologne, Dr Marion Golenia Department of Physical Education and Teaching Research and Junior Professor Dr Helga Leineweber Department of Education and Culture presented findings from the ComeSport project to experts and interested parties from the fields of sports psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry, boarding school education and sports science. The focus was on the effects of social media consumption on the body image of adolescents and young adults.
Further contributions were made by former tennis pro Dustin Brown, who reported on his experiences with hate comments on social media platforms in an interview with Marion Sulprizio. Wiebke Dierkes and Juliane Coßmann also presented a workshop concept on dealing with social media for young athletes.

 

All in One! The exercise and health day for school sports

On Wednesday, 2 April 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., the sports module training course will take place at the Rheinische Landesturnschule in 51465 Bergisch Gladbach. This event is aimed at sports teachers and supporters of school sports and offers various training courses in one day. Dr Marion Golenia and Ulrike Franken will present the module ‘Body images on Instagram, TikTok and Co. - a challenge for PE lessons?’. There are still places available, please see the flyer for registration details and further information. 

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WGI at the 1st International Olympic Research Conference in India

Cand. Phil. Yoonkyu Song, PhD student at the Institute of Sport Science in the Department of Education and Culture in Sport, represented the Willibald Gebhardt Institute (WGI) at the First International Olympic Research Conference in India/ Ahmadabad.
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In one of his two lectures, Yoonkyu presented the WGI's work on Olympic education and history. The other lecture was about his dissertation on sports development in divided nations using the example of Germany and Korea.
We are thankful to Yoonkyu Song for his commitment to the WGI and sports education in Münster.

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Sponsorship award from the city of Münster for Eike Boll's climbing project

The climbing project of the Institute of Sports Science, the University Hospital Münster and the Children's Cancer Aid Münster e.V. was honored as a special project for children and young people at the award ceremony for the Citizens' Prize of the City of Münster. The special feature: Children and young people between the ages of 8 and 18 decide on the funding of the individual projects in the newly founded funding forum of the city of Münster. The climbing project was the only project to receive the maximum amount of funding.

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University didactics as reflected in research

The departments of Education and Culture in Sport and Education and Teaching in Sport were well represented at the 47th annual conference of the Sports Education Commission of the German Society for Educational Science in Oldenburg Castle. Dr Kathrin Kohake, Andre Magner, Uta Kaundinya and Ute Große-Westermann each gave a presentation on didactic issues relating to the education of PE teachers at universities, putting Münster's teaching and examination concepts up for discussion.