Pedagogical Variables and Motor Commitment in the Planning of Invasion Sports in Primary Education

Juan M. García-Ceberino, Sebastián Feu, María G. Gamero and Sergio J. Ibáñez
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Juan M. García-Ceberino: Optimisation of Training and Sports Performance Research Group (GOERD), University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Sebastián Feu: Optimisation of Training and Sports Performance Research Group (GOERD), University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
María G. Gamero: Optimisation of Training and Sports Performance Research Group (GOERD), University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Sergio J. Ibáñez: Optimisation of Training and Sports Performance Research Group (GOERD), University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-17

Abstract: Research on Sports Pedagogy necessitates studying the knowledge possessed by pre-service teachers (PSTs) and its application in the planning of sports in school. The main objectives of this study were to consider if PSTs really apply their beliefs when planning their didactic units, and to analyse time management and its influence on external load in invasion sports. Eighteen PSTs were interviewed and 899 learning tasks were coded using the Integral Analysis System of Training Tasks. Three groups of pedagogical variables (type of task, game phase and game situation), organisational variables related to time and the external load were analysed. A descriptive analysis was made of the contents of the interviews, on the use of the pedagogical variables and on those used in the learning tasks. Application exercises were set by 50.70% of the tasks and 44.30% were without opposition. This did not coincide with teachers’ beliefs, as they did not show a clear choice of ideal type of task and indicated that individual game situations with opposition were preferable. A descriptive analysis was also made of the organisational variables according to the planned sport. Inferential analysis using the Kruskal-Wallis H test and pairwise multiple comparisons showed differences in the motor commitment and external load of the task*time depending on the type of invasion sport ( p < 0.05). Time management conditioned the motor commitment and task load.

Keywords: external load; learning task; organisational variable; pre-service teacher (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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