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Research Article: The Concept of Moving School and Its Practical Implementation in Bavarian Higher Secondary Schools

Date Published: 2023-08-16

Abstract:
The roles of physical activity and the reduction in sedentary activities in the healthy physical, psychosocial and mental development of children and adolescents are undisputed. This is where the concept of Moving School comes in, which has been expanded to a holistic approach that takes into account all areas of the school, including lessons, after-school care and breaks, and aims to provide students with a sufficient level of physical activity. There are no current studies that show to what extent this concept has arrived in the theoretical specifications for higher secondary schools and to what extent it is implemented in practice. In this study, by conducting a narrative review, we determine the core elements of the concept of Moving School. Furthermore, we analyse the extent to which these elements of Moving School are taken into account in the school curriculum, in published school programmes and on school homepages. In this study, we revealed that the concept of Moving School has hardly been implemented in practice in Bavarian higher secondary schools as mostly only single elements of it are referred to in the school curriculum, programmes and school homepages. It can therefore be assumed that the concept has not yet been able to achieve its intended effect, namely, to fill the daily lives of schoolchildren with movement, play and sport.

Introduction:
At higher secondary schools in Bavaria, all-day programmes have been further expanded in recent years. As a result, an increasing number of children and adolescents spend more time in schools [1]. At the same time, Bavarian higher secondary schools are making the transition from eight-year to nine-year schools. For this purpose, a new curriculum, the LehrplanPLUS, was developed and successively introduced in the 2017/2018 school year. The redesign of higher secondary schools with an additional grade level and the…

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