Antonio Baena Extremera

• Professor
• Professor at University of Granada

Building upon the bright and dark pathways outlined in Self-Determination Theory and Duda and Appleton's (2016) hierarchical conceptualisation of motivational climate, the purpose of this research was to examine how perceived educator-created (dis-)empowering climates can be combined and related to need-based experiences, quality of motivation, and...

Guided by the bright and dark side described in Self-Determination Theory, and following [Duda, J. L., & Appleton, P. R. (2016). Empowering and disempowering coaching climates: Conceptualization, measurement considerations, and intervention implications. In M. Raab, P. Wylleman, R. Seiler, A.-M. Elbe, & A. Hatzigeorgiadis (Eds.), Sport and exercise...

El dolor musculoesquelético es considerado algo normal en la danza debido a su alta prevalencia, independientemente del nivel y estilo. El objetivo del estudio fue analizar el dolor musculoesquelético en estudiantes de los Conservatorios de Danza en Andalucía, España, comparando la prevalencia, localización e intensidad de este para cada uno de los...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire for Disruptive Behavior in Physical Education (CCD-EF) in the Mexican context. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational-causal study was designed in which 378 girls (M = 13.99; SD = .30) and 375 boys (M = 14.02; SD = .33), all high school students...

The aim of this study was to examine the models of adventure education known and applied by Physical Education teachers in Compulsory Secondary Education at national level. The study developed for this research follows a non-experimental, sectional, descriptive and correlational design, resulting in a nationally representative study. A total of 453...

Programs based on Adventure Education models are increasingly applied in schools, thanks, among other reasons, to the inclusion of physical activity in the natural environment as a compulsory part of current educational legislation. Scientific literature has demonstrated over the years the wide-ranging benefits that these educational models offer s...

The purposes of this study were: (i) to provide reliability and validity evidence regarding the Teaching Competence Questionnaire for the Math class in the Mexican context; (ii) to analyze factorial invariance according to sex in the Teaching Competence Questionnaire; (iii) to study the relationship between student perceptions of Math teaching comp...

Introduction Different international guidelines indicate the need for improving educational procedures. This study aims to contribute to the professional development training program of higher education professors from a Physical Education Teacher Education degree in México. Methodology This qualitative study used a participatory action research d...

Purpose. The main aim of this research analyses acute PE based on AB and how it might have an exponential affect during the school day. Methods. A total of 46 healthy schoolchildren (age = 10.75 ± 0.65 years) participated in this study, receiving a traditional lesson of 25 min during the assigned class followed by 10 min of a free-reading task (Con...

El objetivo de este estudio ha sido analizar el tratamiento del profesorado, en España, del bloque de contenidos de Actividad Física en el Medio Natural como parte de la Educación Física en Educación Secundaria. El estudio desarrollado para elaborar esta investigación se ajusta a un diseño no experimental, seccional y descriptivo y correlacional, q...

In response to the challenges of the 21st century, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been committed to the development of a training model that focuses on the acquisition of cognitive, physical, and social competences, among others, rather than the mere acquisition of knowledge. This approach has gained momentum in recent years, where t...

Academic self-concept plays a determining role in the teacher education process. Although research in education has focused on understanding the mechanisms that produce higher academic effort and academic self-confidence, the role that satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs and social support and resilience might play on academic...

The objective of this study was to analyze the mediating role of strategies to maintain classroom discipline between the motivational climate generated by the teacher and the students' satisfaction with physical education classes. The research design was observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, and non-randomized. In total, 2147 secondary schoo...

The aim of this study was to analyse the mediating role of Physical Education importance and satisfaction/fun between the dispositional goal orientations of secondary school students and their intention to partake in leisure time physical activity. The research design was descriptive, cross-sectional, and non-randomized. In total, 2102 secondary sc...

Background: There is sufficient evidence to confirm that practice of physical exercise improves cognitive and emotional performance. This idea is also related to UNESCO's current trend of establishing connections with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and educational actions. Furthermore, the relationship of humans with nature seems to produ...

The aim of this study is to analyze the psychometric properties of the learning perception questionnaire (CPA) presented in this research. It was administered to a total of 1496 students in Baja California and Nuevo León, of the total sample, 748 were girls (Mage = 14.0, SD = 0.3), and 748 boys (Age = 14.1, SD = 0.3). The analyses support the hypot...

El presente es un estudio de obtención de evidencias de validez, cuyo propósito fue analizar las propiedades psicométricas y medir la invarianza según el género de la Escala de Evaluación de Competencias Docentes de Educación Física (EECD-EF) para escuelas secundarias en el contexto mexicano. Los participantes fueron 748 estudiantes de secundaria c...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire for Disruptive Behavior in Physical Education (CCD-EF) in the Mexican context. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational-causal study was designed in which 378 girls (Mean = 13.99; SD = .30) and 375 boys (Mean = 14.02; SD = .33), all high school st...

El presente es un estudio de obtención de evidencias de validez, cuyo propósito fue analizar las propiedades psicométricas y medir la invarianza según el género de la Escala de Evaluación de Competencias Docentes de Educación Física (EECD-EF) para escuelas secundarias en el contexto mexicano. Los participantes fueron 748 estudiantes de secundaria c...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue conocer los beneficios psicológicos y académicos que aportan los trabajos de implementación de programas de Actividad Física en el Medio Natural dentro de la Educación Física en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria evaluando diferentes variables (satisfacción, aburrimiento, autoestima, autoconcepto, orientación al apr...

Training for sustainable development is an educational challenge of prime importance. Physical activity and sports in natural environments provide training committed to sustainability and environmental education. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of an undergraduate training program in Physical Activities and Sports in Natural E...

El objetivo de este estudio ha sido traducir al español, adaptar a un contexto AICLE y analizar las propiedades psicométricas de la escala LLOS-IEA; Escala de la orientación del aprendizaje de idiomas-Subescalas de Motivación Intrínseca, Motivación Extrínseca y desmotivación. La versión adaptada del LLOS-IEA fue administrada a 3355 estudiantes de A...

The aims of this study were: (i) to provide evidence of reliability and validity regarding the dimensionality of the Spanish version of two correlated subscales measuring Academic Self-Concept (ASC); (ii) to analyze factorial invariance according to sex and the educational level; (iii) to analyze a higher-order model from the two ASC subscales; and...

This study aimed to explore, on one side, the differences between a group of athletes exercising outdoor (OG) and another group exercising indoor (IG) in stress and awareness, and, on the other side, between-group differences in the fMRI activations during the visualization of natural environment images versus urban images. In addition, we aimed to...

Los objetivos del presente estudio fueron: 1) analizar los niveles de actividad física en el tiempo libre y el IMC de los adolescentes en función del estado y del sexo; y 2) analizar si existen diferencias en la satisfacción con la Educación Física, con la vida y el apoyo a la autonomía por parte del profesor de Educación Física en función del géne...

Los objetivos del presente estudio fueron: 1) analizar los niveles de actividad física en el tiempo libre y el IMC de los adolescentes en función del estado y del sexo; y 2) analizar si existen diferencias en la satisfacción con la Educación Física, con la vida y el apoyo a la autonomía por parte del profesor de Educación Física en función del géne...

Resumen El Mindfulness es la cualidad de ser consciente del momento presente armonizando mente y cuerpo. Este estudio presenta un programa de intervención de seis semanas que se ha realizado en cuatro centros educativos de Granada con alumnado de 5° y 6° de Primaria y 1°, 2° y 3° de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. El objetivo ha sido comprobar si...

The research in recent years is demonstrating that various psychological and didactic variables can significantly affect students, even affecting academic performance. Among them, creating a positive class climate, encouraging intrinsic motivation to school subjects, providing autonomy to the student in their homework, using various teaching-learni...

La Educación Física bilingüe como forma de motivar hacia el aprendizaje en una lengua extranjera. Estudio preliminar basado en el Modelo Trans-Contextual Bilingual Physical Education as a way to motivate learning in a foreign language. Preliminary study based on the Trans-Contextual Model Resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido estudiar la rel...

El modelo de educación por competencias representa un cambio en el paradigma educativo a nivel universitario, dejando de lado metodologías tradicionales de enseñanza en las que el docente fue el centro del proceso educativo. Existe una tendencia hacia la utilización de metodologías activas de enseñanza que tienen como principal característica coloc...

El objetivo de este estudio fue identificar las competencias profesionales desarrolladas por profesores de educación física en formación, durante la aplicación de actividades en el medio natural. Método, un estudio de caso con nueve estudiantes de licenciatura en educación física, solo dos de ellos con experiencias previas en actividades en el medi...

Objectives: This article has had two main objectives. The first has been to adapt and validate a questionnaire to measure intrinsic satisfaction when learning through a second language (English). To do so, the items satisfaction/enjoyment and boredom were adapted into this new setting. The second goal has been to analyze, in a CLIL context, the sex...

In recent years, neuroscience and neurodidactics have demonstrated significant progress in improving the teaching and learning process for various subjects, such as physical education [...]

Mindfulness is the quality of being conscious and aware of the present moment harmonizing mind and body. This study presents a six-week intervention program carried out in four educational establishments in Granada with 5th and 6th grade primary school students and 1st, 2nd and 3rd year secondary school students. The aim was to find out whether Min...

Resumen: El vestuario teatral, en la génesis de un proyecto escénico de danza, se considera un elemento más cuya importancia radica en su significación. El objetivo general de este trabajo ha sido constatar la importancia del traje escénico como herramienta transmisora de conceptos y como elemento simbólico que aporta un sentido a la interpretación...

Service-learning (SL) is a pedagogical model focused on achieving curricular goals while providing a community service. Previous research suggests that SL might promote qualities such as self-esteem, motivation, problem-focused coping, decision-making, empathy, and communication, which are associated with a psychological construct known as students...

NTRODUÇÃO: Desde os anos 1990 a Educação Física espanhola registra o ensino das práticas corporais de aventura (PCAs) na escola, ainda que, por lá, tenham sido denominadas inicialmente como Atividades Físicas de Aventura na Natureza e, após 20 anos de debate, passaram a ser definidas como Atividades Físicas no Meio Natural. OBJETIVO: Este texto apr...

Background: Physical self-perception is often related with better physical fitness perception in adolescents. Moreover, it is an important social cognitive perspective to provide suitable mental health in this population. However, this relationship is unequal between boys and girls. The physical fitness is a marker of health in young population. Th...

Willingness to communicate in a foreign language in the four skills. Sex and age differences Disposición a comunicarse en un idioma extranjero en las cuatro destrezas. Diferencias de edad y sexo Abstract The object of this research was to validate the Willingness to communicate in a foreign language in the four skills in the Classroom Scale to a Sp...

Cooperative learning (CL) is one of the pedagogical models that has had more application in the area of Physical Education (PE), being highly worked in the initial training of teachers. The aim of the study is to check to what extent future PE teachers are able to apply in the classroom the PE training they have received at university, deepening th...

Este trabajo tuvo como objetivos: analizar la invarianza factorial por sexo del Cuestionario de Conductas Disruptivas en el aula de Educación Física y de la Escala de Evaluación de la Competencia Docente en Educación Física, así como analizar las diferencias según la variable sexo en las variables de dichos instrumentos. El diseño de investigación...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue crear una base de datos, con publicaciones relacionadas con las AFMN de revistas españolas, que sirva para facilitar de manera rápida y sencilla la obtención de recursos científicos a docentes, profesionales, investigadores, estudiantes e interesados en trabajar esta línea. Para ello se realizó una revisión de la bib...

Neuroscience and neurodidactics are demonstrating significant progress in improving the teaching and learning process in various subjects, such as physical education. As a reflection of this progress, very interesting studies have appeared in the scientific literature concerning the motivation processes of students and the influence of physical act...

Effective classroom management is a critical teaching skill and a key concern for educators. Disruptive behaviors disturb effective classroom management and can influence school satisfaction if the teacher does not have the competencies to control them. Two objectives were set in this work: to understand the differences that exist in school satisfa...

The objectives of this work were twofold: Firstly, to identify the profiles of disruptive behaviours and motivation in secondary school physical education students using cluster analysis; and secondly, to analyse the interaction of the profiles with school satisfaction and perceived teaching competence. A group of 758 secondary school students (54....

Este texto apresenta os conteúdos de Práticas Corporais de Aventura mais utilizados em aulas de Educação Física nos níveis de primária e secundária em um extrato do contexto espanhol, bem como os objetivos elencados pelos professores para efetivá-los. De cunho quase-experimental e qualitativo, a pesquisa teve como fonte de dados uma amostra 55 prof...

The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale applied to different contexts for initial or original use, such as in the context of physical activity in nature. In order to do this, we carried out a study at some primary and secondary schools located in western Andalucía (Spain), with stude...

Currently, disruptive and aggressive behaviours of a physical and verbal nature are a reality among adolescent students and a concern in the educational context. Therefore, the main objective of this research was to analyse the effects of perceived teaching competence, motivation and basic psychological needs on disruptive behaviours in secondary s...

The aim of this article was to assess how students evaluate the professional personality competence of physical education teachers in high school and its relation to student satisfaction and student satisfaction with life itself. In line with these aims, this study was completed as a cross-sectional study, which was carried out in a group of 890 ph...

Los objetivos del presente trabajo son, por un lado, revisar y recopilar la bibliografía relacionada con la integración de la tecnología en el contenido de orientación durante las clases de Educación Física, y por otro lado, mostrar diferentes aplicaciones tecnológicas para desarrollar el contenido de la orientación. Dentro del método, el diseño ut...

El alumnado que estudia la Enseñanza Profesional de Danza debe compatibilizarla con los estudios obligatorios, de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria o Bachiller. El objetivo de la presente investigación ha sido conocer el grado de apoyo percibido por el alumnado, tanto por parte de su entorno familiar como académico, en sus estudios Profesionales de...

Adolescents’ academic performance and the way it is related to their subjective wellbeing are issues of great interest across educational systems. The purpose of this study was to ascertain how satisfaction with high school subjects can predict school satisfaction and academic performance in Mexican students. The sample consisted of 457 high school...

El objetivo del presente trabajo será analizar las diferencias académicas, personales y ambientales de los estudiantes pertenecientes a los estados de Baja California y Nuevo León (México) y de la Comunidad Autónoma (CCAA) de Andalucía (España). El diseño de la muestra será probabilístico por centros, estratificado, polietápico, por afijación propo...

RESUMEN. El objetivo de este estudio fue examinar el efecto de la satisfacción y/o aburrimiento en la clase de educación física (EF) sobre la importancia que los estudiantes le otorgan a ésta y su relación con la intención de la práctica futura de la actividad física en el tiempo libre. Participaron 457 estudiantes con edades entre 12 y 17 de la zo...

Compendio, en formato artículo, de los mejores trabajos presentados en el XV CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y DEPORTE celebrado los días 17,18 y 19 de octubre del 2018 en la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California en la ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, México:La nutrición en la actividad física y deportiva: alimentos funcionales con...

The aim of this paper is to find out how satisfaction, motivation and belief in success in physical and sports leisure time activities of students in secondary education predict the perceived motivational climate in physical education in three different cultural contexts. The sample consisted of 2168 students from three different countries, belongi...

The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale in the context of outdoor physical activities. In order to do this, we carried out a research in some Primary and Secondary school l located in western Andalucía (Spain), with kids aged 9-12 years old [M= 11.22; SD= 1.07), therefore a sample of...

El objetivo general de este trabajo ha sido comprobar la funcionalidad del uso del vestuario escénico, en distintos niveles de tecnificación dancística, atendiendo al empleo de tejidos adecuados, a la adaptación al movimiento de los intérpretes y a la estética, desde la perspectiva de docentes y bailarines profesionales en España. La muestra fue al...

El objetivo general de este trabajo ha sido constatar la utilización del vestuario escénico como elemento expresivo y comunicativo de una representación de danza. Para ello, se ha comparado su uso en diferentes niveles de tecnificación, teniendo en cuenta su funcionalidad y la adaptación a las necesidades de los intérpretes. La muestra fue aleatori...

En los últimos años se ha podido observar la preocupación social por la inclusión de las personas con discapacidad en las Actividades Físicas en el Medio Natural (AFMN), minimizando las barreras para que todos pueda participar sin importar sus características. Así es que cada vez nos encontramos con más experiencias con presencia de personas con di...

Cada vez son más los docentes que se están formando en las Actividades Físicas en el Medio Natural (AFMN), introduciéndolas a través de diversas propuestas como la espeleología, las vías ferratas, la orientación, el senderismo e incluso a través del uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Aun así, son muchos los docentes que no...

Influencia de las competencias del profesorado de secundaria en los comportamientos disruptivos en el aula Influence of the competences of secondary teachers on disruptive behavior in the classroom Resumen Introducción: Los comportamientos disruptivos en las aulas ocasionan gran cantidad de problemas en el transcurso de las clases, entre los estudi...

Introducción: Los comportamientos disruptivos en las aulas ocasionan gran cantidad de problemas en el transcurso de las clases, entre los estudiantes e incluso en el estado de ánimo de los docentes. El profesor es el principal factor en evitar este tipo de conductas si desarrolla buenas competencias. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar cómo la...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between prediction of students' intention to practice physical activity in their leisure time and motivation and autonomy support received in physical education classes. The sample consisted of 1298 high school students in Andalusia, Spain. The instruments used were the Spanish versions adapte...

El presente trabajo consiste en la concreción del volumen de publicaciones relacionadas con las Actividades Físicas en el Medio Natural en revistas españolas desde el año 2014 hasta el 2018. Para ello se llevó a cabo una revisión documental descriptiva en 32 revistas españolas indexadas en la plataforma DICE y relaciona-das con el ámbito de la Educ...

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the satisfaction and/or boredom of physical education (PE) class has over the importance that students give to the class and its relationships with the intention of the future practice of physical activity. 457 students with ages between 12 and 17 from metropolitan area of Monterrey participated in...

The objective of this work was to provide evidence on the dimensionality of the Spanish version of Sport Motivation Scale II adapted to physical education (SMS-II-PE) in one of its hypothesized models (6 factors). A sample of 1055 secondary education students of the Region of Murcia, Spain, aged between 12 and 17 years, was used. As an instrument,...

The purpose of the study was to know which subjects in the curriculum best predict school satisfaction and boredom as well as the student's academic grade. The sample was of 680 adolescents of physical education (339 males, 341 females) with age between 12 and 18 years (M = 14.83; SD = 1.45). We used a questionnaire composed of the satisfaction sca...

RESUMEN La incorporación de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TICs) a nuestras vidas, han modificado los estilos de vida actuales convirtiéndonos en personas más sedentarias. Cada vez son más los adolescentes que disponen de un teléfono móvil inteligente con diversidad de aplicaciones (Apps) descargadas que ocupan su tiempo de...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze a model of prediction of satisfaction with bilingual physical education from basic psychological needs and motivation. Methods: The sample consisted of 758 students (347 men and 411 women) in secondary education in Spain, aged between 13 years and 18 years (M = 15.22, SD = 1.27). Questionnaires of th...

This paper analyses the relationships between the goal orientations and the hikers and cycle-tourers’ motivations older than 15 have to practice physical-sport activity in natural environments in the context of the Way of Saint James. The investigation has been developed by administering a self-administered questionnaire to a sample of 1.071 indivi...

El envejecimiento es un proceso natural e inevitable con cambios degenerativos en la mayoría de las funciones físicas, fisiológicas, psicológicas y sociales. El presente trabajo estudia la relación establecida entre aspectos de la práctica de ejercicio físico moderado/intenso tales como la frecuencia semanal y tiempo dedicado, con la capacidad físi...

Background The aims of this papers are two: 1) To study goal orientation in Lifesaving practitioners and 2) to analyze the differences in goal orientation depending of variables? such as sex, age and sport specialty. Method Participants were 136 specialists swimmers in Rescue and Lifesaving, from youth (from 15 to 16 years) to junior (from 17 to 1...

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between levels of leisure-time sports and physical activity and the stages of change in high school students with goal orientations. Methods: The sample was conformed of 2168 students randomly selected to participate in a longitudinal study in Costa Rica (423), Mexico (408), and Spain (1337), wi...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between levels of leisure-time sports and physical activity and the stages of change in high school students with goal orientations. Methods: The sample consisted of 2168 students randomly selected to participate in a longitudinal study in Costa Rica (423), Mexico (408) and Spain (1337), with...

RESUMEN: Los Raids de Aventura son pruebas de gran dureza física y psicológica, por eso, los deportistas deben tener una motivación importante para participar en estas pruebas. A pesar de ello, a día de hoy no hay instrumentos que evalúen estos motivos, por ello, el objetivo de este trabajo ha sido validar una Escala de Motivos de participación en...

The goal of this paper is to show the differences between girls and boys in how FLL (Foreign Language Learning), and PE (Physical Education) is perceived in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) contexts. In this study, based on a t-student analysis, significant differences by sex were found in Intrinsic Motivation-Knowledge and Accomplis...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es reflexionar sobre el concepto de deporte y de las prácticas ecológicas en España y Brasil y encontrar el modo de conseguir que una práctica deportiva llegue a ser ecológica. La Educación Física y el Medio Ambiente son áreas que se han relacionado desde hace décadas; pero a pesar de ello, y de sus influencias, aún...

La práctica de actividades físicas en el medio natural (AFMN) es un tema en auge en la actualidad, cada vez son más los investigadores que deciden publicar en este campo, así podemos ver un incremento de publicaciones, en este ámbito, en los últimos años (Baena-Extremera, Palao y Jara, 2015). En esta línea y siguiendo las tendencias actuales de la...

El objetivo ha sido analizar un modelo de predicción de las metas de logro 2x2 a partir de la satisfacción y motivación del estudiante de secundaria. La muestra fue de 758 estudiantes (347 hombres y 411 mujeres) de educación secundaria de centros públicos de la Región de Murcia, con edades de entre 13 y 18 años (M = 15.22; DT = 1.27). Se utilizó un...

El objetivo del trabajo fue observar si se producían cambios significativos en la satisfacción, metas sociales y motivación en las clases de Educación Física, tras utilizar una Unidad Didáctica de escalada. Este trabajo se trata de una investigación con un diseño cuasi experimental con medidas pre post y con carácter descriptivo. Se utilizó una mue...

The aim of this research was to understand how social goals, perceived locus of causality and causal attribution predict perceived motivational climate in Physical Education students in different countries and cultures. The sample consisted of 2168 students from three different countries, belonging to Costa Rica 423, 408 to Mexico with a total of 1...

Resumen: El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar las propiedades psi-cométricas de la versión en castellano del SMS adaptado a la Danza (SMS-D) en sus tres modelos de 3, 5 y 7 factores. Se utilizó una muestra de 174 alumnos (165 de sexo femenino = 94.8%; 9 de sexo masculino = 5.2%) con edades comprendidas entre 10-17 años (M = 11.37; DT = .8...

The aim of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of the SMS spanish version adapted to Dance (SMS-D) in its three models of 3, 5 and 7 factors. Aged 10 to 17 years (M = 11.37, SD = .862), a sample of 174 students (9 Male = 5.2%; 165 Female = 94.8%) was used All students belong to the five Professional Conservatories of Dance in A...

The aims of this paper were: a) to verify whether the importance granted by parents to leisure physical activity (PA), parental PA, and the parents' educational level enhance or weaken adherence to PA in their physically active children and, b) to explain the possible interference of such parental factors on adolescents' adherence to PA. Participan...

The aim was to understand if Physical Education (PE) teachers' gender has any effect on the importance given to this subject, motivational climate perceived by students, disruptive behaviors, intention to engage in leisure-time physical activity, and academic performance. The sample was composed by 890 students of PE (Mage = 15.49; SD = 1.79) from...

Adventure Races are competitions of great physical and psychological toughness, therefore, raiders must have a strong motivation to participate in these races. However, today there are no instruments to assess these reasons, therefore, the aim of this study was to validate a scale reasons for participation in Adventure Races. The sample consisted o...

Motivation is a key and fundamental aspect in students' education and several researches have already shown the importance of motivated students for the educational system. In order to analyze and explain the variables which can impact on these levels of motivation, this paper is fundamented in two theories. One is Achievement Goal Theory and the o...

Resumen:Diversos estudios están poniendo de manifiesto que el rendimiento académico se consigue con la interconexión de diversas variables en las que interviene, no sólo el estudiante, sino también el docente, el ambiente que rodea al centro e, incluso, al entorno familiar y social del estudiante. En este trabajo se realiza una revisión bibliográfi...

Las Actividades Físicas en el Medio Natural están ocupando cada vez más el currículo educativo español, aumentando su práctica en el tiempo libre de los adolescentes. Con la llegada de las nuevas tecnologías digitales, hacen de estos contenidos, una práctica deportiva más segura y eficiente, permitiendo al estudiante realizarla de forma autónoma co...

A continuación se detallan algunas referencias de libros, artículos y páginas web que complementan la información ofrecida en el Tema del Mes, así como la bibliografía específica sobre educación física inclusiva en la naturaleza. Garbizu, Juanjo (2012). Monterapia. Barcelona: Editorial Diéresis. El autor, montañero con retos que van desde el Aconca...