Sport in vocational education and training – a teaching subject or a leisure activity?

Coverbild: BWP 4/2016
Author
Issue/Year (Volume) 4/2016 (45)
Page(s) 48-49
Language(s)
    englisch

In vocational education and training, sport is a teaching subject which is neglected in both quantitative and qualitative terms by dint of the fact that it is viewed as forming part of general education or leisure time. Nevertheless, there are good reasons to strengthen the presence of the teaching of sport in vocational training. The article highlights possible reasons for the neglect of sport in vocational education and training and presents arguments in favour of sport as a teaching subject in VET.