Guide of Sports Activities in Natural Environments: a Proposal for Comprehensive Training

Abstract

The Luis Ulpiano de la Torre Cotama educational institution is located in the Otavalo canton, Imbabura province, a privileged location for the practice of complementary sports activities in the natural environment. In this sense, the present research proposes to carry out a: Guide of complementary physical activities for the integral formation of the students including an active methodology, facilitating outdoor experiences with educational purposes, where the contents are novel and motivate students to seek new emotions, in addition to promoting teamwork and relationship with the community from active participatory and cooperative approaches. In this article, a mixed methodology was developed, based on a qualitative approach using interviews and documentary analysis as tools, and quantitative when tabulating through the SPSS statistical program, the results of the interviews conducted with 53 students who were in the tenth year of Education General Basic superior. As a result, an affinity and interest in sports activities in nature was obtained. Likewise, the activity that most attracts the students' attention is mountain biking, followed by hiking and canoeing. Thus giving importance to the development of a guide of complementary physical activities in nature allowing the comprehensive training of students in terms of recreation, health and contact with nature. It could be concluded that the Ecuadorian Physical Education curriculum does not have guidelines that facilitate sports practice in the natural environment, limiting the obtaining of significant learning from contact with nature.