La Educación Física puede jugar un papel importante como medio para trabajar los contenidos de comunicación, los valores sociales, la resolución de conflictos, la cooperación y un nuevo estilo de disfrute vital. Los estudiantes que hacen deportes de cooperación presentan un mejor ajuste social y personal, un mayor nivel de autoestima y son socialmente más competentes, menos tímidos e introvertidos, e incluso son menos agresivos. Estas afirmaciones, sin duda son sumamente esperanzadoras en el momento actual. El juego cooperativo se plantea en un escenario donde la libertad y la justicia se convierten en una meta. Los autores aciertan cuando sitúan el juego motor en las clases de Educación Física como un camino seguro, que concreta nuevas posibilidades y enfoques en el plano educativo-formativo para la diversidad en contextos sociales multiculturales y caracterizados por una ambigüedad social. Antonio Medina Revilla Catedrático de Didáctica, Organización Escolar y DDEE UNED. Madrid El uso de los juegos cooperativos que se propone en esta obra, es una alternativa para solucionar los problemas y conflictos que persisten en las aulas. Si el juego tiene valores de cooperación y solidaridad, permitirá al grupo encontrar soluciones creativas propuestas colectivamente mejorando la práctica educativa en cualquier contexto. La estructura del manual que consta de una amplia introducción que sitúa al lector ante la obra, dividida en cuatro capítulos los cuales avanzan, progresivamente, desde el aprendizaje cooperativo en el entorno de la Educación Física, hasta la aportación de algunas ideas, a modo de conclusiones, pasando por el juego motor en el marco didáctico de la Educación Física y concreciones prácticas de juegos cooperativos. Estos contenidos concretos, teóricos y prácticos, se basan en los principios del juego cooperativo, tales como la protección del jugador, la globalización cooperativa, la participación en el alto rendimiento y la reciprocidad cooperativa entre jugadores y equipos. Al mismo tiempo se acercan al contexto educativo, recreando el entorno social donde se desarrolla el juego, sus componentes motrices, sus objetivos y el papel del maestro o maestra en su desarrollo. Mª Luisa Zagalaz Sánchez Catedrática de Escuela Universitaria, Didáctica de la Expresión Corporal, Universidad de Jaén

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping, CMC 2016, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2016. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The papers address issues such as facilitation of learning; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using “expert” knowledge; planning instruction; assessment of “deep” understandings; research planning; collaborative knowledge modeling; creation of “knowledge portfolios”; curriculum design; eLearning, and administrative and strategic planning and monitoring.

Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.

The Game Centred Approach (GCA) is the ideal framework for coaches and teachers to develop comprehensive tactical or technical lessons for any game, both in physical education and in extracurricular sport contexts. Learning about the pedagogical models included in this approach has never been easier thanks to this short introductory guide. The book helps the reader acquire the skills needed to design effective session plans, regardless of the sport that is being taught or coached. It introduces the core concepts underpinning the GCA model, complemented by practical examples of tasks and strategies for each game category and assessment instrument. This is essential reading for all educators, coaches or sports professionals who wish to improve their teaching or coaching to enhance their students and players’ physical literacy and sport competence. It is also invaluable reading for any student or researcher working in physical education, sport coaching or sport pedagogy.

The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].