The purpose of this master's thesis was to determine the state of implementation of the mountaineering program as part of the curriculum in primary schools in the area of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. We aimed to examine to which extent the chosen primary schools carry out practical and theoretical work related to the topic of mountaineering as it is laid out in the National Curriculum for the subject Physical Education. We obtained the data with the help of an online survey, which included a total of 38 sports pedagogues, each representing their respective school in the City Municipality of Ljubljana. This means that 74,5% of all schools in the above-mentioned area had a representative taking part in the survey.
The results show that the vast majority of schools (89.47%) implement a mountaineering program. Most often, such activities are carried out during sports days and less frequently during residential trips. Mountaineering activities are mostly carried out during residential trips that focus on skiing, swimming and other subjects. Residential trips that focus on mountaineering content are only organised by two schools from the sample. Teams of sports teachers usually merge practical activities with theoretical content (65,52 %). Most schools in the City Municipality of Ljubljana plan such events without consulting mountaineering associations or mountain guides. In addition, teams of sports teachers mostly do not cooperate with primary education teachers at their schools when planning mountaineering activities. Contrary to the second and third three-year cycles, the activities that are carried out in the first three-year cycle of primary education do not enable pupils to meet the knowledge standards set by the National Curriculum. We see the solution for more consistency and quality implementation of mountaineering activities in more frequent cooperation with mountaineering associations. The basis of all mountaineering activities should be a mountaineering programme for all 9 grades of primary school.
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