Coordination between the subject of physical education and extracurricular physical activities

• Main Authors: Antonio Campos Izquierdo, María Dolores González Rivera
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de La Rioja 2013-05-01
• Series: Contextos Educativos: Revista de Educación
• Online Access: https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/contextos/article/view/638

In this article there is analyzed the possible connection of physical education classes with the extracurricular physical activities in the Primary School of the Region of Madrid. This research places inside the methodology of quantitative type of descriptive cut, across survey, which has been in use as instrument of withdrawal of information the interview standardized by means of questionnaire created ad hoc, that was completed by 300 teachers. In the study there is obtained that the vast majority of the teachers who give classes in the extracurricular physical activities say they do not establish any coordination with the Physical Education teacher of the school. However, most of these teachers feel they would be good if there were a coordination with the teachers of Physical Education. However, more than half of teachers who give classes in the extracurricular physical activities believe that the objectives of the activities they provide are not related to the objectives of the Physical Education.