About this Research Topic
This Research Topic focuses on the methodological revolution that teaching based on active methodologies and pedagogical models such as the comprehensive teaching of sport, sports education, cooperative learning, or gamification has meant for physical education in recent decades, which has promoted a major change in perspective and focus.
In contrast to conventional content-based teaching, in which the leading role is played by the teacher, active methodologies emerge with a focus on the student. Content and the acquisition of skills are indeed important, but from this perspective, it is considered alongside other equally relevant aspects such as cognitive, behavioural, emotional, and social aspects. Furthermore, the improvement of the physical or motor domain goes beyond a short-term improvement of their physical condition and motor skills, seeking to generate healthy life habits in the long term.
Active methodologies seek to give a leading role to the student in the classroom, being the real actor of their learning, involving them in the activities, in decision-making, and in the evaluation itself. Therefore, a qualitative leap is made in the search for a way of acting on the part of the teacher during teaching that generates in students a more or less self-determined motivation, an improvement in physical literacy, in variables related to self-esteem and self-concept, in the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, in the social climate and relationships, in the intention to be physically active, Etc. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Gamification
● alternative Sports;
● adventure sports;
● problem-Based Learning;
● cooperative learning;
● project-based learning;
● service-learning projects;
● learning situations;
● flipped classrooms;
● active breaks.
In short, this Collection aims to bring together research on the use of active methodologies in the physical education classroom and the consequences of their implementation, with motivation as the mediator.
Information for authors: Please be aware that this research topic is cross-listed with multiple journals and sections. When submitting your manuscripts, please ensure that they fall within the scope of the journal and sections to which you are submitting.
In contrast to conventional content-based teaching, in which the leading role is played by the teacher, active methodologies emerge with a focus on the student. Content and the acquisition of skills are indeed important, but from this perspective, it is considered alongside other equally relevant aspects such as cognitive, behavioural, emotional, and social aspects. Furthermore, the improvement of the physical or motor domain goes beyond a short-term improvement of their physical condition and motor skills, seeking to generate healthy life habits in the long term.
Active methodologies seek to give a leading role to the student in the classroom, being the real actor of their learning, involving them in the activities, in decision-making, and in the evaluation itself. Therefore, a qualitative leap is made in the search for a way of acting on the part of the teacher during teaching that generates in students a more or less self-determined motivation, an improvement in physical literacy, in variables related to self-esteem and self-concept, in the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, in the social climate and relationships, in the intention to be physically active, Etc. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Gamification
● alternative Sports;
● adventure sports;
● problem-Based Learning;
● cooperative learning;
● project-based learning;
● service-learning projects;
● learning situations;
● flipped classrooms;
● active breaks.
In short, this Collection aims to bring together research on the use of active methodologies in the physical education classroom and the consequences of their implementation, with motivation as the mediator.
Information for authors: Please be aware that this research topic is cross-listed with multiple journals and sections. When submitting your manuscripts, please ensure that they fall within the scope of the journal and sections to which you are submitting.
Keywords: Sport pedagogy, students, teaching models, physical activity, active learning
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