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Background: This article addresses the following question: why don’t primary and secondary school students perform urban walks or hikes during cultural and tourist visits of the cities they live in, when engaging in physical activity (PA)? The aim is to demonstrate that exploring cities on foot is a different, important, and necessary way to perform PA, that leads to improving social relations and exposing individuals to culture; in particular, teachers would be trained for this. Methods: qualitative methodology based on exploratory observation; state-of-the-art literature review; design of a didactic proposal in the form of an Urban Walk. Results: existence of publications on related activities in many countries including Spain; development and implementation of the Urban Walk; opinions of its future teachers and their knowledge of the possibilities and advantages of this proposal and its relationship with different knowledge subjects. Conclusions: the Urban Walk facilitates future teacher knowledge of cities and provides a new approach to PA; physical-cultural activities that complement the proposal need to be designed.
Javier Cachón-Zagalaz; Amador J. Lara-Sánchez; José Luis Ubago-Jiménez; Carmen González-González De Mesa; Francisco José López-Gallego; María Luisa Zagalaz-Sánchez. Walk More towards Active Leisure, Tourism, Culture, and Education. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3174 .
AMA StyleJavier Cachón-Zagalaz, Amador J. Lara-Sánchez, José Luis Ubago-Jiménez, Carmen González-González De Mesa, Francisco José López-Gallego, María Luisa Zagalaz-Sánchez. Walk More towards Active Leisure, Tourism, Culture, and Education. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (11):3174.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJavier Cachón-Zagalaz; Amador J. Lara-Sánchez; José Luis Ubago-Jiménez; Carmen González-González De Mesa; Francisco José López-Gallego; María Luisa Zagalaz-Sánchez. 2019. "Walk More towards Active Leisure, Tourism, Culture, and Education." Sustainability 11, no. 11: 3174.
The objective of this study was to compare the corporal composition and the explosive strength capacity of lower limbs in primary school students from two different schools in the locality of Martos (Jaén). One of these schools was located in a marginalized neighbourhood where families of low socioeconomic status lived and the other was near the town centre with families of medium to high socioeconomic status. The aim was to evaluate these variables at two different moments in time, i.e., at the beginning and at the end of the school year, to see if the obtained results remained the same. A total of 147 primary school students (6–12 years old) participated in the study, divided into 4 subgroups, according to sex and school. Body composition and explosive strength capacity of the lower limbs were evaluated using the vertical jump test. For independent samples, T tests were performed to obtain the existing differences through the SPSS v 19.0 programme. It was found that according to the first measurement at the beginning of the year, participants from a medium-high socioeconomic background obtained better results, while the second measurement showed that results equalized and even reversed. This could have been due to the level of performed physical activity.
Amador Jesús Lara Sánchez; Francisco José López Gallego; José Antonio Pérez Turpin; Javier Cachón Zagalaz. Explosive Strength Capacity in the Lower Limbs of Primary Education School Children According to Environment. Sustainability 2018, 10, 813 .
AMA StyleAmador Jesús Lara Sánchez, Francisco José López Gallego, José Antonio Pérez Turpin, Javier Cachón Zagalaz. Explosive Strength Capacity in the Lower Limbs of Primary Education School Children According to Environment. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (3):813.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAmador Jesús Lara Sánchez; Francisco José López Gallego; José Antonio Pérez Turpin; Javier Cachón Zagalaz. 2018. "Explosive Strength Capacity in the Lower Limbs of Primary Education School Children According to Environment." Sustainability 10, no. 3: 813.