La innovación y nuevas estrategias de enseñanza en la Educación Física y el deporte favorecen el acercamiento de cualquier agente del ámbito educativo hacia un contexto más próximo, cercano y favorecedor de aprendizajes. Un modelo de enseñanza novedoso se nutre recíprocamente al generarse un intercambio formativo y de experiencias entre todos los participantes tales como profesorado, alumnado, familias, contexto, etc. La innovación educativa dentro y fuera del aula pretende consolidar los aprendizajes curriculares del alumnado al mismo tiempo que estos adquieren diversos valores. El alumnado en cuestión desarrollará un pensamiento crítico y resolutivo ante nuevas estrategias de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

During the past decades, the scientific discipline of Sports Didactics has developed in a heterogenous manner across national borders and individual university locations in Europe. Its position and situatedness has been characterised by its relation to and differentiation from Sports Pedagogy and other sub-disciplines within sports and educational sciences. The significance of Sports Didactics remains closely connected to the role of the school subject Physical Education as well as Physical Education Teacher Education at universities and colleges. This collected volume provides an overview of the subject understandings, theory landscapes, research contexts and practice models across 24 European countries along five lines of investigation: national historical developments of Sports Didactics, main trends and tendencies of theoretical differentiation, application fields of research and theory formation, recent research perspectives and possible future developments.

University dropout is a global problem with pernicious social and economic effects. The various university systems in developed countries illustrate the seriousness of the issue. In Spain, through the annual reports of Data and Figures of the Spanish University System published by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. The situation of Spain in the developed countries as a whole, with a comparative perspective and the global dimension of the problem, is dealt with in successive reports by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. The successive reports of the OECD and the EU through Eurostat deal with the situation of Spain in a comparative perspective and the global dimension of the problem.