Incidencia de los juegos tradicionales en las capacidades coordinativas especiales en estudiantes de 8 a 10 años

Abstract

Coordinatives are considered important skills in childhood, although most of the skills do not have a clear knowledge on this subject, this may be because teachers have a low interest in promoting learning, progress and evaluation of these within the classes of Physical Education, which means that the people present cannot coordinate their movements and have a good balance in their daily activities, preventing them from having a good sports performance in the future. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the incidence of traditional games on special coordination skills in students aged 8 to 10 years of the Vicente Rocafuerte Educational Unit, located in the Azogues canton. For its execution, a quantitative quasi-experimental method has been chosen, since 21 students participated during Physical Education classes. In the intervention program, 36 sessions were carried out in 3 months, for which we worked with the traditional games of Ecuador, adjusting to the needs of the institution. To establish whether these activities have a positive effect, the Capon Test was achieved before and after the intervention. The data obtained were coded numerically for their pertinent analysis through Microsoft Excel descriptive statistics, acquiring the estimates of each individual, the Wilcoxon test was also obtained through the SPSS STADISTIC software to verify if there was a positive effect through the activity plan. As for traditional games. The effect of the program was evaluated, resulting in a significant change in the average from 0.63 to 2.44, in 8- to 9-year-old students, and in 10-year-old students, from 0.20 to 1.80. In conclusion, this result confirms a significant and essential contribution for the physical training of children and for the strengthening of their special coordination from an experience based on fun and entertainment, as a new methodology whose effectiveness according to the results obtained it's undeniable