Special Issue "Physical Education and Educational Innovation for Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mª Luisa Zagalaz Sánchez
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Department of didactics of musical, plastic and body expression, University of Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
Interests: primary education; secondary education; university; teacher training; physical activity; innovation
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Prof. Dr. Javier Cachón-Zagalaz
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Department of didactics of musical, plastic and body expression, University of Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
Interests: preschool; psychomotricity; physical activity; innovation; teacher training; active methodologies; sports
Prof. María Sánchez Zafra
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Department of didactics of musical, plastic and body expression, University of Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
Interests: primary education; university; sport; innovation; psychosocial factors
Prof. Déborah Sanabrias Moreno
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Department of didactics of musical, plastic and body expression, University of Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
Interests: preschool; university; psychomotor skills; innovation; sports; coeducation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Physical Education and sports professionals should include motivational strategies and innovative pedagogical practices in their classes that encourage increased physical activity to improve performance in the classroom and in training sessions, as well as to develop physical fitness, group cohesion and participant health, making them sustainable in educational and sport contexts.

The objective of teaching–learning needs to include results that are sustainable over time. The expected results are based on motivation as an influential and crucial factor in the subject's behavior, and with the application of different teaching models, it will determine the success (adherence) or failure (abandonment) of the practice of physical activity and sport.

Transversal, longitudinal and intervention studies that analyze innovation and teaching models in the context of education and physical activity and sport for different ages can be presented. The validations of the measurement instruments linked to the object of study in this Special Issue and, if important, qualitative studies are also of interest.

This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to bring together scientific advances on the importance of the application of different models and methods of teaching in Physical Education, at different levels and in different educational contexts (preschool, primary, secondary and higher education) and extracurricular sports. These contents could be completed by analyzing the academic achievement in the classroom together with the social, emotional, cognitive and biological factors that determine the commitment to physical activity.

As an innovation, it is considered the application of Information and Communication Technologies in the COVID-19 period, as well as the application of teaching models such as gamification and others and more current physical activities such as cardio routines, HITT.

Dr. Mª Luisa Zagalaz Sánchez
Prof. Dr. Javier Cachón-Zagalaz
Prof. María Sánchez Zafra
Prof. Déborah Sanabrias Moreno
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • physical education
  • physical activity
  • sport
  • teaching levels
  • teacher training

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University Graduate Students and Digital Competence: Are Future Secondary School Teachers Digitally Competent?
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8519; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158519 - 30 Jul 2021
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Information and communication technology is very important both for teacher training and for delivering quality education. Therefore, university graduates must have a level of qualification in digital competencies suitable for their entry into the world of work. The research analyzes various aspects related [...] Read more.
Information and communication technology is very important both for teacher training and for delivering quality education. Therefore, university graduates must have a level of qualification in digital competencies suitable for their entry into the world of work. The research analyzes various aspects related to the use of technological resources by graduate students who were currently studying for a university master’s degree in compulsory secondary education, and the relationship between their use based on gender and/or age. A descriptive cross-sectional survey is carried out. We use an ad hoc questionnaire that shows acceptable reliability. The results show that graduate students make traditional use of ICT—both for searching for information and using digital resources for teaching. Moreover, differences were found based on gender and age regarding participants’ perception of their digital competence. Full article
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