Physical Education and Educational Innovation for Sustainability

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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