Active learning methodologies in Mexican Physical Education. A multiple case study

Abstract

Results of a multiple case study of 10 Physical Education teachers who work in public preschool, primary and secondary schools in Mexico City are reported. The main objective was to analyze the teaching practices of the physical educator with respect to the implementation of active methodologies within the framework of the New Mexican School and detect the difficulties that arise in planning, application and evaluation. The study had a qualitative nature with a descriptive scope and the instruments to collect data were a structured questionnaire, observation guides and documentary review of teaching plans and official texts. The results show that active methodologies in Physical Education are teaching models that break the traditional way of organizing the class, therefore, implementing these methodologies with their phases and stages forces us to rethink the dynamics of educational practice. For this reason, teachers point out that the pedagogical orientation of the Study Plans with respect to active methodologies is a complex change that will gradually be implemented, although sometimes some teachers point out that, given the difficulty, they resort to repeating the practices they they dominate.