Sandra Heck
Biographic Data
| ID | 6104076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Heck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Heck |
| SIGNATURE | HECK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2514-5500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Compatibility of physical education curricula with physical literacy across 40 European countries
Although the student-centred concept of physical literacy (PL) has been emphasized by UNESCO, knowledge about its adoption/implementation into PE remains scant. Therefore, the goal of this study was to evaluate and compare the compatibility of PE curricula with PL in Europe. We collaboratively gathered a panel of experts encompassing 40 European countries. In the first step, the experts were invited to freely specify the compatibility of country’…
Health promoting sports federations
Background: Researchers and policy-makers have highlighted that the potential for organized sports to promote health has been underexploited. Sports clubs have limited capacity to promote health due to their voluntary nature and have called for support from their national sports federations. The present article provides guidelines, based on the theoretical principles of health promoting sports clubs and an analysis of practical tools and proven s…
Inclusive Physical Education Around the World
In this section, inclusive physical education is discussed in the context of the development of the services for students with disabilities and the role of adapted physical education (APE) in this context in two examples of Middle East countries: Turkey and Israel. In Turkey APE has increasingly become available as an academic discipline in Turkish universities, as well as in sports federations since the year 2000. However, in spite of the academ…
Assessing the Ecological Impact of Ultramarathon Events in Protected Natural Sites
Outdoor sport events evidently have an impact on the environment. If they are taking place in naturally protected areas this impact is even greater. By taking ’Le Grand Raid Réunion’, an international ultramarathon annually organized in the heart of an UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, as a case study, this paper concentrates on assessing the ecological impact of an outdoor sports event in a protected natural site. On the basis of datasets take…
William Penny Brookes – the Founding Father of the Modern Pentathlon
For a long time William Penny Brookes' influence on the re-establishment of the Olympic Games has been neglected thanks to a focus on Pierre de Coubertin's creative force. Meanwhile Brookes' general work for the Olympic movement has been officially acknowledged by the IOC. However, the British origins have not been proved yet for the modern pentathlon, which is – just like the Olympics – widely presented to be Coubertin's child. The two sport off…
Von spielenden Soldaten und kämpfenden Athleten
Modern Pentathlon at the London 2012 Olympics
In London, in 2012, the modern pentathlon (fencing, swimming, horse riding, shooting and running) celebrated its centenary. In its 100 years of Olympic history several rule changes have taken place. Directly after its Olympic debut in Stockholm in 1912, the International Olympic Committee headed by Pierre de Coubertin evaluated the event and criticised the shortcomings between the supposed idea behind the sport and its implementation. After Coube…
A Sport for Everyone? Inclusion and Exclusion in the Organisation of the First Olympic Modern Pentathlon
The Olympic Games in Stockholm, 1912, were the first taking place without connection to a world exhibition. Thus, the sports competitions took centre stage. The modern pentathlon was new in the programme. Though the sport met Pierre de Coubertin's ideological support and Viktor Balck's encouragement, its staging caused more problems than the organising committee originally expected: as hardly any pre-experiences with this competition existed, deb…
Myth or Reality of the Revier Derby ? Schalke 04 versus Borussia Dortmund (1947–2007)
For the Ruhr district, an urban area in the North-West of Germany, the meeting of the two most popular and successful football clubs in the region, Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund, has for years been a polarising, emotional and sensational sporting event. No where else in the country and in no other sport more than in football is the rivalry between the football clubs and its fans so strong still today. Is this so called Revier derby a construct…
Prologue
peer reviewed
Breaking Down the Sex Barrier
Fencing, shooting, horse-riding, swimming and running – five good reasons for men to argue that women are wrong when asking to be modern pentathletes but also five good reasons for women to counter that they are definitely right. Even though as early as 1912 a British woman had asked to compete in the sport, another 69 years passed until the first female World Championships were held in London in 1981. This paper deals with women's struggle towar…
Modern Pentathlon and the First World War
In the nationalistic atmosphere of the early twentieth century, a nurturing medium for sports practising martial manliness abounded throughout Europe. This framework supported the invention of a new multi-disciplinary sport, aided by Baron Pierre de Coubertin himself: modern pentathlon. Though the idea of a new form of pentathlon was already born in 1894, it took 30 years, until Paris 1924, to establish modern pentathlon within the Olympic Games.…
A Blond, Broad-shouldered Athlete with Bright Grey-blue Eyes”
Modern pentathlon requires mainly military skills and historically attracted the attention of officers only. Appropriately, the country that provided the best modern pentathletes simultaneously demonstrated its military strength. Gotthardt Handrick who interrupted a long-lasting Swedish hegemony over the modern pentathlon developed into Germany’s national pride. Surprisingly, his victory in the 1936 Olympics modern pentathlon competition is relat…
Modern Pentathlon and the First World War
In the nationalistic atmosphere of the early twentieth century, a nurturing medium for sports practising martial manliness abounded throughout Europe. This framework supported the invention of a new multi-disciplinary sport, aided by Baron Pierre de Coubertin himself: modern pentathlon. Though the idea of a new form of pentathlon was already born in 1894, it took 30 years, until Paris 1924, to establish modern pentathlon within the Olympic Games.…
Myth or Reality of the Revier Derby ? Schalke 04 versus Borussia Dortmund (1947–2007)
For the Ruhr district, an urban area in the North-West of Germany, the meeting of the two most popular and successful football clubs in the region, Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund, has for years been a polarising, emotional and sensational sporting event. No where else in the country and in no other sport more than in football is the rivalry between the football clubs and its fans so strong still today. Is this so called Revier derby a construct…
Breaking Down the Sex Barrier
Fencing, shooting, horse-riding, swimming and running – five good reasons for men to argue that women are wrong when asking to be modern pentathletes but also five good reasons for women to counter that they are definitely right. Even though as early as 1912 a British woman had asked to compete in the sport, another 69 years passed until the first female World Championships were held in London in 1981. This paper deals with women's struggle towar…
Modern Pentathlon and the First World War
In the nationalistic atmosphere of the early twentieth century, a nurturing medium for sports practising martial manliness abounded throughout Europe. This framework supported the invention of a new multi-disciplinary sport, aided by Baron Pierre de Coubertin himself: modern pentathlon. Though the idea of a new form of pentathlon was already born in 1894, it took 30 years, until Paris 1924, to establish modern pentathlon within the Olympic Games.…
A Blond, Broad-shouldered Athlete with Bright Grey-blue Eyes”
Modern pentathlon requires mainly military skills and historically attracted the attention of officers only. Appropriately, the country that provided the best modern pentathletes simultaneously demonstrated its military strength. Gotthardt Handrick who interrupted a long-lasting Swedish hegemony over the modern pentathlon developed into Germany’s national pride. Surprisingly, his victory in the 1936 Olympics modern pentathlon competition is relat…
Myth or Reality of the Revier Derby ? Schalke 04 versus Borussia Dortmund (1947–2007)
For the Ruhr district, an urban area in the North-West of Germany, the meeting of the two most popular and successful football clubs in the region, Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund, has for years been a polarising, emotional and sensational sporting event. No where else in the country and in no other sport more than in football is the rivalry between the football clubs and its fans so strong still today. Is this so called Revier derby a construct…
Prologue
peer reviewed
Breaking Down the Sex Barrier
Fencing, shooting, horse-riding, swimming and running – five good reasons for men to argue that women are wrong when asking to be modern pentathletes but also five good reasons for women to counter that they are definitely right. Even though as early as 1912 a British woman had asked to compete in the sport, another 69 years passed until the first female World Championships were held in London in 1981. This paper deals with women's struggle towar…
Von spielenden Soldaten und kämpfenden Athleten
Modern Pentathlon at the London 2012 Olympics
In London, in 2012, the modern pentathlon (fencing, swimming, horse riding, shooting and running) celebrated its centenary. In its 100 years of Olympic history several rule changes have taken place. Directly after its Olympic debut in Stockholm in 1912, the International Olympic Committee headed by Pierre de Coubertin evaluated the event and criticised the shortcomings between the supposed idea behind the sport and its implementation. After Coube…
A Sport for Everyone? Inclusion and Exclusion in the Organisation of the First Olympic Modern Pentathlon
The Olympic Games in Stockholm, 1912, were the first taking place without connection to a world exhibition. Thus, the sports competitions took centre stage. The modern pentathlon was new in the programme. Though the sport met Pierre de Coubertin's ideological support and Viktor Balck's encouragement, its staging caused more problems than the organising committee originally expected: as hardly any pre-experiences with this competition existed, deb…
William Penny Brookes – the Founding Father of the Modern Pentathlon
For a long time William Penny Brookes' influence on the re-establishment of the Olympic Games has been neglected thanks to a focus on Pierre de Coubertin's creative force. Meanwhile Brookes' general work for the Olympic movement has been officially acknowledged by the IOC. However, the British origins have not been proved yet for the modern pentathlon, which is – just like the Olympics – widely presented to be Coubertin's child. The two sport off…
Inclusive Physical Education Around the World
In this section, inclusive physical education is discussed in the context of the development of the services for students with disabilities and the role of adapted physical education (APE) in this context in two examples of Middle East countries: Turkey and Israel. In Turkey APE has increasingly become available as an academic discipline in Turkish universities, as well as in sports federations since the year 2000. However, in spite of the academ…
Assessing the Ecological Impact of Ultramarathon Events in Protected Natural Sites
Outdoor sport events evidently have an impact on the environment. If they are taking place in naturally protected areas this impact is even greater. By taking ’Le Grand Raid Réunion’, an international ultramarathon annually organized in the heart of an UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, as a case study, this paper concentrates on assessing the ecological impact of an outdoor sports event in a protected natural site. On the basis of datasets take…
Health promoting sports federations
Background: Researchers and policy-makers have highlighted that the potential for organized sports to promote health has been underexploited. Sports clubs have limited capacity to promote health due to their voluntary nature and have called for support from their national sports federations. The present article provides guidelines, based on the theoretical principles of health promoting sports clubs and an analysis of practical tools and proven s…
Compatibility of physical education curricula with physical literacy across 40 European countries
Although the student-centred concept of physical literacy (PL) has been emphasized by UNESCO, knowledge about its adoption/implementation into PE remains scant. Therefore, the goal of this study was to evaluate and compare the compatibility of PE curricula with PL in Europe. We collaboratively gathered a panel of experts encompassing 40 European countries. In the first step, the experts were invited to freely specify the compatibility of country’…
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