Christoph Blomberg – författare

The main thing is being happy? Anyone involved either theoretically or practically in the upbringing and education of young people is, even if only unconsciously, trying to make them happy. Accordingly, happiness was an obvious and explicit goal of education in the early days of the field as an academic discipline. Today, surprisingly, there is little mention of it. That is the starting point for this book: beginning with views of happiness in antiquity, it traces educational reflections on happiness from the Enlightenment to the present day. It then inquires into possible reasons for the current marginalization of the topic. The book concludes with an invitation to give greater consideration again to the complexity of the topic of happiness in education & even though there is no educational action that is ultimately capable of guaranteeing happiness.

The main thing is being happy? Anyone involved either theoretically or practically in the upbringing and education of young people is, even if only unconsciously, trying to make them happy. Accordingly, happiness was an obvious and explicit goal of education in the early days of the field as an academic discipline. Today, surprisingly, there is little mention of it. That is the starting point for this book: beginning with views of happiness in antiquity, it traces educational reflections on happiness from the Enlightenment to the present day. It then inquires into possible reasons for the current marginalization of the topic. The book concludes with an invitation to give greater consideration again to the complexity of the topic of happiness in education & even though there is no educational action that is ultimately capable of guaranteeing happiness.

Das Feld von Bewegung, Spiel und Sport ist für viele Jungen identitätsstiftend und hochbedeutsam. Über 50 Prozent aller Jungen sind Mitglied eines Sportvereins, 75 Prozent der Jungen bezeichnen Sport als ihr Lieblingsfach in der Schule. Gleichwohl gibt es bislang keine systematische Aufarbeitung der pädagogischen Möglichkeiten einer Jungenförderung im und durch Sport. Der Sammelband vereint Beiträge zur Jungenforschung aus unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen im Hinblick auf das besondere Potenzial von Bewegung, Spiel und Sport für eine geschlechtssensible Förderung. Neben allgemeinen Grundlagen werden empirische Studien und Förderkonzepte vorgestellt.