Study Projects in the Practical Semester as a Contribution to the Professionalisation of P.E. Students?!

Abstract

In the practical semester, students have the chance to combine the learning acquired at university with the school practice; as a result they’re able to question it and ultimately understand it better. Training teachers reflecting on their own educational actions is therefore increasingly becoming central to teacher professionalisation. In order to initiate this kind of education, research-based learning has become established as a didactic concept, concretized in study projects. Empirical results clearly show that this hereby demanded reflexive-exploratory examination and the actual practice of it among students at school has only received little acceptance. In the implementation of these study projects, they don’t necessarily make sense to them; however under certain conditions – as the research results show – it can be made to make sense. Based on these results, the article shows how meaningful tutorial content can be developed for the students, so long as it’s under the conditions formulated.