Sixto González-Víllora

Dr. Sixto González-Víllora

Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha
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Biography

González-Víllora obtained two bachelor degrees (Primary Education Teacher and Sport Science) and received his Ph.D. from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in 2008. His research focused on the development of tactical knowledge and decision-making in youth football players (Physical Education and Sport Performance program). After 2008, he was invited to South Carolina University, Columbia Campus, where he served one semester as visiting professor. González-Víllora is part of the teaching and research academic staff at the Training Teacher School of Cuenca (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain); since 2004, he is the Physical Education Coordinator. Since 2016, he is Associate Professor and Dean of this School. His research interests focus on Models-Based Practice and their hybridizations: the Games Centered Approach (GCA), Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU), Cooperative Learning (CL) and Sport Education Model (SE), Sports Assessment and Sporting Talent Detection Processes (invasion and net sports). He also conducts research on Sports Training (Tactics, Decision-making) and other topics in Physical Education and Sports. He is member of the research group Physical Activity and Sports Teaching (http://www.uclm.es/grupo/edaf/). He is author of eight books, ten book chapters, and more than 100 articles in scientific journals (70 published in international journals indexed on WoS; categories: Sports Science, Education/Educational Research, Psychology or Physiology).

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