Educational inclusion in values in a detention centre through a Blog

• Main Author: A. Silla
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Federación Extremeña de Balonmano; University of Extremadura 2016-12-01
• Series: E-balonmano.com: Revista de Ciencias del Deporte
• Subjects: Centro de menores; valores; TIC; blog; baloncesto; Detention centre; values; basketball
• Online Access: http://www.e-balonmano.com/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/356

The purpose of this educational intervention lies in the new technologies inclusion in a detention minor centre. This initiative consists of using an educational blog in a values teaching and learning process carrying out in the basketball activity. An activity which promotes social values (fellowship), encourage player’s self-esteem, autonomy and motivation, moreover it fosters behaviours of equality and health. The sample was 13 players, all of them from the detention centre of Valencia’s city where the basketball activity takes one day per week. The educational blog is a platform which use wordpress technology, with limited access to the pupils of the centre and with their own activity contents about tasks/complementary activities to the work on the court. It is remarkable that all tasks are related to Real Madrid Foundation (FRM) and it is framed in the educational project of FRM (Ortega, 2012). The findings warn that the participation and the access interest to the platform have increased as well as during the practice, it has been experienced a knowledge transfer on the values contents worked on the blog.