Teachers Matter

The dissertation thesis aims to describe PE teachers` requirements comprehensively. In its theoretical part, the thesis summarizes and analyzes research on PE teachers` personality. The scoping review provides basis for the design of the subsequent empirical part, which analyzes PE teachers` general as well as vocational-specific personal characteristics. On a subordinate level, the thesis in comparable manner (scoping review + empirical study) analyzes students in the PE context. Findings are discussed in terms of their contribution to the research area and their implementation in PE teaching, teacher education or professional training. The thesis is embedded within the research project SuM PLuS (Sportunterricht und Motivation: Personbezogene Faktoren von Lehrer*innen und Schüler*innen als Determinanten der Schülermotivation / Physical Education and Motivation: Teachers` and Students` Person-Related Factors as Determinants of Student Motivation).