Little games

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Small games are ball, dexterity, running, catching and trust games, games to practice perception, etc. They are usually performed during the warm-up phase of a training session .

In contrast to the big sports games, the focus is not on learning sports motor skills, but on movement, joy, play, relaxation and communication. The rules of the game are so simple that everyone can join in immediately.

Demarcation

The demarcation between small and large games is only vague. For example , if volleyball and football are the classic big games, dodgeball is usually played as a small game with approximately the same number of players, playing time and playing field size .

The assignment, for example in the framework curricula to the exercise instructor and sports teacher training , is usually based on social relevance, the degree of complexity of the set of rules of the sport or game and the teaching phase in which it is carried out. The small games are used for warming up and warming up, in contrast to the so-called big games, which usually make up the main part of a lesson or training unit.

Here, too, dodgeball is an example of the subjective division of games; it is usually used as the end of a particularly technically demanding training session; at the same time there is a separate dodgeball league within the German Gymnastics Federation .

Origin and collected works

Probably the first German-language sports educational game book Games for exercise and relaxation of the body and mind was written by the pedagogue Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths in 1796. One of GutsMuth's central thoughts was to help the game to come into its own at a time when physical exercises and games were still completely unknown in public schools and to combine learning, games, education such as body and mind. The book follows on from his book Gymnastik für die Jugend , published in 1793 . In addition to the pedagogical classification and justification, it contains a collection of games in which traditional German folk games and a selection of games commonly used in other countries are systematized. Many of the games described are still relevant today and can be found in the same or modified form in more recent compilations on the subject.

From the 1960s to 1990s, the standard work for training and practice was the book Kleine Spiele by Erika and Hugo Döbler, which is constantly being reissued. In addition to a practical and methodical part, it also contains an introduction to sports didactics.

The big Limpert book of the small games , edited by Klaus Moosmann, was published in 2009 , in which sports teachers have put together over 400 of the best-known and most popular "small games" in various categories.

List of small games (selection)

literature

  • Erika Döbler, Hugo Döbler: Little games. The standard work for training and practice . Mülheim an der Ruhr 2018: Verlag an der Ruhr, ISBN 978-3-8346-3694-2 .
  • Volker Döhring: Little games at the beginning and end of the sports lesson . Wiebelsheim, 2nd edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7853-1897-3
  • Katja Kordelle, Simone Saggau: 77 little games for physical education . Buxtehude 2009: Persen, ISBN 978-3-8344-3484-5 .
  • Klaus Moosmann (ed.): The great Limpert book of the small games. Exercise fun for young and old . Wiebelsheim, 2nd edition 2011: Limpert, ISBN 978-3-7853-1834-8 .
  • Klaus Moosmann (ed.): Small games for all age groups . Wiebelsheim 2012: Limpert, ISBN 978-3-7853-1855-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Klaus Moosmann (ed.): Small games for all age groups . (Games card with 104 games). Wiebelsheim 2012: Limpert.
  2. ↑ Last new edition: Johann Christoph Friedrich Gutsmuths / German University for Body Culture (ed.): Games for exercise and relaxation of the body and mind . Edited by Wilhelm Beier, introduced by Paul Marschner, Berlin 1959: Sportverlag.
  3. ↑ See on this: Willi Schröder (with the collaboration of Manfred Thieß and Jörg Lölke): Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths and the 'gymnastics for young people'. Origin, work, impact history . Rudolstadt 1999: Hain Verlag.

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