Career choice can be seen as a complex decision-making process. Individual interests and goals, subjective assessment of abilities, as well as external requirements and circumstances play important roles. The PE teacher profession is often seen as a fun profession, without special requirements or burdens – an opportunity to turn a hobby into a profession. PE teacher candidates are confronted with the question of why they want to become PE teachers. The results of the survey highlight the importance of “biographical competence”, which must be seen as an important argument for increased attention to the development of the professional self in the PE teacher training program.

The article describes a project about ‘experiential education’ at a school in Germany. The main educational objective is to offer an alternative way of teaching pupils who show destructive and aggressive behaviour. After a critical analysis of the concept of experiential education with regard to its educational relevance, the conceptual design and implementation of the project is presented. The experiences gained through participant observation and interviews can be interpreted in such a way that pupils with behavioural problems can gain a new, different access to themselves through special movement- and social-related activities, an outcome which has positive effects on social behaviour in the class and school climate in general and working behaviour in subject lessons specifically.

Povzetek The primary aim of the study was to measure and compare daily physical activity among young people in the most northern part of Europe where the ethnic minority, the Saami people. The research population was 6-, 9-and 15-year old children in Saami majority municipalities (N=180). In this article, we present and discuss the results of a cross-sectional study of physical activity among children of primary school age.. No significant differences were found when results were compared with the same age group throughout Norway, or in other European countries. The results in total indicate that global trends towards a comfortable, rather sluggish lifestyle will not stop, even when the local and regional conditions favour a different, more active and health-promoting lifestyle. Dnevne telesne dejavnosti samijskih šolarjev s severa Norveške Cilj študije je bil izmeriti in primerjati dnevne telesne dejavnosti mladih v najsevernejšem delu Evrope, kjer živijo pripadniki etnične manjšine, ljudstva Sami. Raziskovalna populacija so bili 6, 9 in 15 let stari otroci v samijski osnovni šoli (N = 180). V članku predstavljamo in obravnavamo rezultate medsektorske raziskave telesne dejavnosti osnovnošolskih otrok, pri čemer v primerjavi z drugimi otroki iste starostne skupine na Norveškem ali v drugih evropskih državah ni bilo mogoče najti pomembnih razlik. Rezultati v celoti kažejo, da se globalni trendi v smeri udobnega, precej počasnega življenjskega sloga ne bodo ustavili tam, kjer bi lokalni in regionalni pogoji dajali prednost bolj dejavnemu in zdravemu življenjskemu slogu.

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