ON YOUR MARKS - GET SET - GO!
In the first edition of our networked consultation under the motto: "EXTRACURRICULAR POLITICAL EDUCATION FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS AT THE GYM", we played with the two areas of "sport" and "political education".
The consensus was: Physical Education opens doors for political education - there is a lot in team sports that can be transferred to political/democratic education processes and learning is sometimes better with movement than sitting still...
However, sports is still closed or exclusive in some places - traditional structures and mechanisms need to be questioned. Learning processes and topic development do not stop after the educational offer. Thinking about sustainability is therefore also important for the education sector, which often functions in one-day workshops. After half-time, we took a closer look together at places where people are on the move ("sports squares") and their potential and limits for democratic/political education - JoDDiD likes to play with the term "spatial approach" here.
What approaches are there in Saxony to thinking about and bringing together "sport" and "political education"? Some and some very exciting ones, we think. It's definitely worth browsing through our invited projects.
What is still missing in Saxony: Projects on topics that are still not sufficiently present in the field of sport, such as gender diversity; more people who are in sports clubs and offer educational and advisory services on site or provide access to these services; opportunities to receive funding for innovative, e.g. space-related offers outside of the usual funding logic.
Conclusion: There is great potential in sports/sports/"sports facilities"/athletes/etc. to make democracy tangible and to support political learning.
There is a lot of didactic joy of movement and creative energy in the Saxon stakeholder field. Many thanks to everyone who took part today.
We're hanging in there.
Participants:
"b:all inclusive", AnDemos - Institute for Applied Democracy and Social Research e.V., https://andemos.eu/ball-inclusive
"Im Sport verein(t) für Demokratie", Saxony State Sports Association, https://www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de/sport-und-gesellschaft/im-sport-vereint-fuer-demokratie
"Integration through sport", Saxony State Sports Association, https://www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de/sport-und-gesellschaft/integration-durch-sport
Initiative for more societal responsibility in popular sport - soccer (IVF), https://ivf-leipzig.org
"Que(e)r durch Sachsen - Mobile Beratung im ländlichen Raum", Rosalinde Leipzig e.V., https://www.genderkalender.de/index.php?id=168
TIAM e.V. - Trans-Inter-Aktiv Mitteldeutschland https://www.trans-inter-aktiv.org
Lernkurve Leipzig, Fan Project Leipzig, https://www.fanprojekt-leipzig.de/lernort-stadion/
"Project for socio-political education at the Bildungswerk des Landessportbundes Sachsen e.V.", https://www.bw-lsbs.de/kontakt
Mobile counseling against right-wing extremism, Kulturbüro Sachsen e.V. , https://kulturbuero-sachsen.de/arbeitsbereiche/mobile-beratung/