Varela Casal Cristina

University of Vigo | UVIGO · Department of Special Didactics

Drowning remains a prominent global pediatric health concern, necessitating preventive measures such as educational initiatives for children and caregivers. In this study, we aimed to assess the feasibility and educational effectiveness of an interactive puppet show centered on teaching water safety to children and parents. A 30 min original theate...

Drowning remains a prominent global pediatric health concern, necessitating preventive measures such as educational initiatives for children and caregivers. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and educational effectiveness of an interactive puppet show centered on water safety for children and parents. A 30-minute original theater performanc...

We aimed to calculate the interrater reliability of the Test of Gross Motor Development-Third Edition (TGMD-3) after raters reached a consensus regarding measurement criteria. Three raters measured the fundamental movement skills of 25 children on the TGMD-3 at two different times: (a) once when simply following the measurement criteria in the TGMD...

La creación audiovisual constituye una parte esencial de la cultura contemporánea, no sólo en su vertiente narrativa, que goza de un momento de éxito a través de las diferentes plataformas de contenidos, sino también a través de los videojuegos, el videoclip, la publicidad, las redes sociales y otros. La expansión de la imagen en movimiento desde e...

La presente investigación muestra los resultados obtenidos, en relación a las variables rendimiento académico y motivación, de un programa educativo basado en el empleo de las TIC. Se propone un estudio cuasi-experimental, adoptando un diseño “pre test-pos test-test recuerdo” con un grupo control que recurre a procedimientos manuales y un grupo exp...

The link between social networks and consumption is changing. In the beginning, social networks used to encourage fast fashion; now, social networks promote the concept of slow fashion. This situation has led to the appearance of reselling apps that use the same tools as social networks. This paper aimed at analysing the role of status within fashi...

Objective To quantitatively assess the learning capacity of school children aged between 8-12 years in basic life support (theory and practice) after a feasible school training programme. Material and methods Quasi-experimental study with a convenience sample of 567 pupils in 3rd and 5th year of Primary Education, and first year of Compulsory Seco...

Perception, knowledge and education for drowning prevention in adolescents Background: Drowning is a major problem of public health in Spain, with a high number of deaths. The main strategy to address it is prevention, going through knowledge and education. The aim of this study was to analyze from a public health perspective a) the knowledge of yo...

Objective: Drowning is a major problem of public health in Spain, with a high number of deaths. The main strategy to address it is prevention, going through knowledge and education. The aim of this study was to analyze from a public health perspective a) the knowledge of young participants from 14 to 16 years old about drowning prevention, swimmin...

Objective To compare the effectiveness of 4-month rolling-refreshers and annual retraining in basic life support (BLS) on a sample of schoolchildren. Design Prospective longitudinal trial. Setting and participants Four hundred and seventy-two schoolchildren (8–12 years old). Interventions Schoolchildren were instructed in BLS and then split into...

Introducción y objetivo: El desarrollo de las habilidades motrices básicas (HMB) se ha relacionado con distintos indicadores de salud (práctica de actividad física, sobrepeso, obesidad), por lo que conocer el grado de dicho desarrollo puede ser de utilidad para detectar situaciones en las que sea necesaria una intervención precoz. Sin embargo, hast...

Objective: We aimed to compare traditional basic life support (BLS) education with specific and innovative educative didactic material that has been previously designed and validated. Methods: Fifteen classes of schoolchildren aged 5 to 8 years (n = 237) were randomly assigned to 4 groups in which different didactic and complementary materials w...

Purpose To validate the content and adequacy of the «Rescube» training material that includes adapted information from the chain of survival. Material and methods The study included three steps: (i) material development by 7 experts, following Delphi method; (ii) assessment of training material by 11 experts by means of a Likert score and calculat...

The Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) is one of the most common tools for assessing the fundamental movement skills (FMS) in children between 3 and 10 years. This study aimed to examine the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the TGMD—3rd Edition (TGMD-3) between expert and novice raters using live and video assessment. Five raters [2 e...

Objective To quantitatively assess the learning capacity of school children aged between 8-12 years in basic life support (theory and practice) after a feasible school training programme. Material and methods Quasi-experimental study with a convenience sample of 567 pupils in 3rd, 5th and 1st year of Primary Education, and Compulsory Secondary Edu...

Objetivo Validar el contenido y la adecuación del material desplegable «Rescube» con la información adaptada de la «cadena de supervivencia». Material y métodos La investigación fue realizada en tres etapas: 1)desarrollo del material desplegable por 7 profesionales, utilizando los pasos de un método Delphi; 2)evaluación del material desplegable po...

Objective To identify, synthesise and evaluate studies that investigated the reliability of the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) variants. Methods A systematic search was employed to identify studies that have investigated internal consistency, inter-rater, intra-rater and test-retest reliability of the TGMD variants through Scopus, Pubmed/M...

University students, as a result of their lifestyles, represent a section of the population that is most likely to adopt sedentary behaviours. The aim of the present study was to analyse the determining factors dictating the performance of physical activity as well as sedentary behaviour among university students. A total of 608 students (64.6% wom...

Introduction: Using videos seems to be a good option to share cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques. Aim: Our aim was to evaluate the learning effect of viewing a video about why and how to do CPR in young footballers, as well as on how to use an automatic external defibrillator. Material and methods: A prospective, analytical and observat...

El prácticum es una vía adecuada para introducir la investigación y la innovación en la educación infantil y primaria. Permite, por un lado, acomodar el trabajo desa-rrollado en la institución universitaria a las demandas reales de la escuela y, por otro, facilita que los centros escolares tengan acceso a metodologías, recursos y estrategias más in...

Tras diez años, Afinidades Selectivas es una buena ocasión para mirar atrás, hacer balance y reinventarse, con la mirada vivificante de quien sigue teniendo la curiosidad y la prudencia, de quien en el transcurrir ha ido atesorando saberes y haceres. Diez años de propuestas, basadas en la afinidad, la proximidad, la analogía y la semejanza. Diez...

Over the past ten years in Spain, museum visits by young students and the demand for adapted material for these visits that education departments have received from educational centres have both grown exponentially. In light of this status quo, it has become important to create spaces where museum educators and teachers from educational departments...

Objective: Effect of a physical activity program on body composition and physical condition with university teacher students. Methods: 51 university students from the Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, University of Vigo (Spain), participated in the study. Students performed a 6-week protocol, using the walking routes designed in the universi...

Visually impaired people respond to brief basic live support training programmes in a similar way to no handicapped people. Thus, they are valid candidates to be rescuers in a out of hospital cardiac arrest. The aim of the present study is to propose a sticker which could ease the automated external defibrillator (AED) use by visually handicapped pe...

Si partimos de un modelo educativo tradicional deberíamos definirlo como repetitivo, monótono y basado en la memorización, donde los alumnos son considerados agentes pasivos sin conocimientos previos y dónde no tienen opción a desarrollar su creatividad. En contraposición a esta metodología se encuentra el modelo de enseñanza constructivista. “Es...

El Salón del Libro Infantil y Juvenil de Pontevedra es un proyecto sociocultural para promocionar lengua gallega y la animación a la lectura entre escolares gallegos. Uno de los pilares del proyecto es la transformación artística, interactiva y educativa del espacio expositivo. En este contexto nace una colaboración entre las artistas encargadas de...

Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre duas questões relevantes no ensino de artes: arte contemporânea, no programa de ensino na formação dos professores e o jogo como um veículo para a aprendizagem, a fim de desenvolver uma estratégia de ensino que podemos transferir para a sala de aula para o modo de jogo. Two Stage Transfer Drawing de Dennis Oppe...

As habilidades sociais de comunicacion, por ser capacidades cognitivas que se venen demandando cada vez con mais forza na sociedade da informacion actual, onde os cambios son constantes e requiren dunha adaptacion aos mismos de forma fluida e versatil, son capacidades que e necesario conecer para afondar no seu desenvolvemento, xa que as empresas c...

The education sector is undergoing a significant transformation in which the art edu-cation is present because of its interdisciplinary nature. Consequently, it is essential to train teach-ers in the plastic and visual expressions. As artists and teachers, we present three educational expe-riences with working groups in order to show the strengths...

Resumen En la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra (la única en Galicia) hasta la implantación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) la formación era básicamente procedimental, casi exclusiva-mente ligada a las áreas de la plástica tradicional; escultura, pintura y di-bujo. Con los nuevos planes de estudio se han incorporado de forma e...

In the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra (the only faculty of this kind in Galicia) up to the introduction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) the training was basically procedural, almost exclusively linked to the areas of traditional plastic expression, sculpture, painting and drawing Thanks to the new study programmes we have explicitl...

Este artículo pretende analizar la evolución de la identidad visual de empresas e instituciones en las dos últimas décadas, prestando especial atención al auge de la tipografía corporativa personalizada como herramienta de construcción de la marca en un mundo globalizado. Hoy en día, los denominados tradicionalmente signos identificadores básicos-n...

El modelo de educación que se implanta en Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) implica promover condiciones y situaciones de aprendizaje en las que se diseñen experiencias próximas a las necesidades profesionales, desarrollando el aprendizaje integral del alumno, elevando la calidad de la educación impartida, e incorporando la formación con...