During the past decades the scientific discipline of sports didactics has developed in a
heterogenous manner across national borders and individual university locations in Europe. Its
position and situatedness has been characterised by its relation to and differentiation from
sports pedagogy and other sub-disciplines within sports and educational sciences. The
significance of sports didactics remains closely connected to the role of the school Subject
Physical Education as well as Physical Education Teacher Education at universities and
colleges. This collected volume provides an overview of the Subject understandings theory
landscapes research contexts and practice models across 24 European countries along five lines
of investigation: national historical developments of sports didactics main trends and
tendencies of theoretical differentiation application fields of research and theory formation
recent research perspectives and possible future developments.
