Hortigüela-Alcalá David
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hortigüela-Alcalá David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hortigüela-Alcalá |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Burgos |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5951-758X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pedagogical Models in Physical Education and Their Impact on Socially, Culturally, and Economically Disadvantaged Students Through Social Justice
Mapping Pedagogical Models in Physical Education
This rapid review provides an evidence-informed mapping and classification of pedagogical models in Physical Education. Following PRISMA-informed procedures, searches were conducted in Web of Science between 2013 and 2025, identifying 6,144 records, of which 730 met the eligibility criteria. Three operational indicators were used to classify each model: Dissemination and Transfer, Scientific Evidence, and International Consolidation. The results …
La Importancia de las Competencias Transversales en la Educación Universitaria
INTRODUCCIÓN: El dominio de competencias transversales en la formación universitaria ha adquirido una relevancia creciente en el marco del Espacio Europeo de Enseñanza Superior (EEES). En el ámbito de Ciencias de la Salud, la atención ha estado predominantemente dirigida hacia el desarrollo de competencias específicas, mientras que las competencias transversales han sido subestimadas, a pesar de su importancia crítica en la formación integral de …
Conceptions of health among undergraduate physical education students
Doing Gender Online
This study explores how femininity and the female body are socially and culturally constructed within digital contexts, focusing on memes as sites of gendered meaning-making. Grounded in West and Zimmerman’s (Gend Soc 1(2):125–151, 1987. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243287001002002 ) doing gender framework and informed by feminist theories of performativity (Butler in Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity, Routledge, 1990) and di…
Health models and the quest for the ‘healthy’ body. analysis of adolescents’ experiences using Instagram
Fundamentos para Aplicar la Gamificación en Educación Física desde una Perspectiva Reflexiva y Crítica
"Swimming Against the Current". Analysis of the Discourses of Homosexual Physical Education Teachers Under the Intersectionality Approach
Traditionally, the PE teacher with the highest status was the white, heterosexual male, with a muscular body and belonging to a good socioeconomic level. These stereotypes are subject to socio-political factors that determine power structures and "the way forward," which generated clear discrimination and social injustice. In this sense, and taking sexual identity as a reference, the objective of this research is to analyze the discourses of 8 ho…
‘I have normalised being treated differently’. Analysis of the experiences of foreign students in Physical Education
Purpose The aim of the study is to analyse the experiences of 7 students (4 girls and 3 boys) from different continents (Africa, Asia and South America) in Physical Education, in order to know to what extent, they have perceived racism. Their guardians also participated. All the students have experienced their compulsory schooling in Spain.Methods The research is framed under the theory of culturally relevant pedagogy. A qualitative approach is u…
International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme
This article arises from a systematic review of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP). Four databases were consulted, and after the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 21 articles were selected and analysed in the following categories: year and author, country, type of research, participants, purpose and results. The results show a growth in PYP research in recent years, coming from several countries arou…
Participación del alumnado en la elaboración del examen teórico
Los exámenes en la Formación Inicial del Profesorado (FIP) pueden repercutir tanto en la vida académica del alumnado como en su posterior docencia. Por ello, la aplicación de sistemas de Evaluación Formativa y Compartida (EFyC) pueden ayudar a mejorar su aprendizaje de manera constante. Se presenta un estudio con tres preguntas de investigación principales: (a) ¿Qué influencia puede tener, en la FIP, la implicación del alumnado en la elaboración …
Formative and shared assessment in primary school PE curriculum
La evaluación es uno de los procesos que más significa a los currículos. Por ello, el fin general de este trabajo fue conocer la percepción de los maestros de Educación Física (PETE) de Educación Primaria sobre el papel de la evalua-ción en el currículo en España. Un grupo de expertos va-lidaron una entrevista con dos partes. Una primera parte general con preguntas sobre la evaluación en Educación Física (EF) y su vinculación con el currículo (pr…
Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Formative and Shared Assessment on Pre-Service Teacher Education
This study presents the research outcomes of a Formative and Shared Assessment experience in future Early Childhood Education teachers over two consecutive academic years, paying special attention to the assessment system’s advantages and disadvantages, student’s academic performance and teacher and student workload. It was a developmental longitudinal ex-post-facto study conducted in one cohort of pre-service teacher education (PSTE), applied to…
Formative and Shared Assessment and Feedback
Producción Científica
Formative and Shared Assessment and Final Degree Projects in Physical Education Pre-service Teacher Education
Producción Científica
Finding the place of content and language integrated learning in physical education within the models-based practice framework
Although the educational intentions of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) seem to be perspicuous, how to put them into practice in different subjects is not so clear-cut. In addition, critical voices within the physical education (PE) arena claim that CLIL may jeopardise the subject. Therefore, CLIL needs to be adjusted in order to remain on the PE agenda. Currently, PE specialists embrace the models-based practice framework, which m…
La brecha digital destapada por la pandemia del coronavirus
INTRODUCCIÓN. El confinamiento de la población provocado por la pandemia del coronavirus obligó al profesorado y a las familias a hacer una transición casi instantánea de la enseñanza presencial a la enseñanza a distancia. Pero, ¿cómo ha incidido esta transición en la denominada brecha digital? El objetivo del estudio fue conocer el impacto del cierre de los centros educativos en las siguientes tres brechas digitales: de acceso, cognitiva y escol…
Discurso de la obesidad y Educación Física
En este artículo, exploramos la situación actual de la Educación Física escolar en España, caracterizada por un discurso biomédico, por una preocupación por el aumento de las horas lectivas de la asignatura en pro de luchar contra la obesidad infantil y juvenil y por cierto encauzamiento neoliberal. Para satisfacer este discurso predominante, los currículos de Educación Física están priorizando entre sus diferentes elementos (fines, contenidos y …
Prácticas Evaluativas Formativas del Docente y Rendimiento Académico en Escolares de Primaria
La literatura científica ha identificado la práctica evaluativa como el motor principal del aprendizaje en escolares. El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la relación existente entre la percepción del discente sobre las prácticas evaluativas formativas del docente de Matemáticas y Lengua y su rendimiento académico. En este estudio descriptivo de corte transversal compuesto por 133 escolares se valoraron las prácticas evaluativas formativas del do…
Everything is more difficult when you are different
The aim of this research is to analyse the experiences of seven homosexual students (four boys and three girls) in Physical Education (PE). Their families are also involved in the study, looking in depth at how their children’s experiences have affected their daily lives throughout their adolescence. A qualitative approach is used, exploring the students’ and families’ perceptions from an analytic approach called ‘thinking with theory’ (Jackson &…
I feel lonely, I don't understand you when you talk, and I find it hard to breathe”. Analysis of the emotional tensions of physical education students in the Spanish setting of Covid-19
The aim of this research is to analyse the emotional tensions experienced by PE students in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-four students participated in the study. A qualitative methodology was used in which, taking into account the safety and prevention conditions established for the COVID-19 situation, three categories of analysis were obtained: a) experiences regarding the use of the face mask; b) experiences regarding physical d…
Estilo docente y competencia en educación superior
El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la mediación del clima motivacionalentre el estilo interpersonal docente y la satisfacción y frustración de la competencia académica en alumnado de educación superior. El diseño de la investigación es observacional, descriptivo y transversal, con muestreo por conveniencia.Han participado 354 estudiantes universitarios (59.6% varones) (Medad=21.84;DT=1.98) y se han utilizado las siguientes escalas: Estilo In…
A Mediation Model between Self-Esteem, Anxiety, and Depression in Sport
The scientific literature on mental health has found an association between physical activity and emotional wellbeing and recommends active leisure activities as a way of keeping stress under control. The purpose of this research study is to analyze the level of anxiety, the symptoms of depression and the level of self-esteem of people practicing speleology, as well as possible gender differences. This paper also attempts to understand whether se…
Physical Activity and Quality of Life in High School Students
Adolescence is a critical period for the acquisition of health-related behaviors that will transcend later psychological well-being in adulthood. The present study presents a theoretical model whose objective is to analyze how physical activity predicts an adequate quality of life through self-concept and subjective happiness among adolescents. A total of 452 students aged 12 to 15 (M = 13.8; SD = 0.77) from four Compulsory Secondary Education in…
Health Promotion through Movement Behaviors and Its Relationship with Quality of Life in Spanish High School Adolescents
A growing number of studies have highlighted the health benefits of high physical activity, low screen time, and optimal sleep duration among school-age children and adolescents. Objective: The present study proposes to examine the individual and combined association between movement behaviors (physical activity, screen time, and sleep time) and quality of life in boys and girls. Method : A total of 319 Spanish primary and secondary school studen…
The influence of consumerism on Spanish physical education teachers
Consumer culture and neoliberalism have significantly influenced contemporary globalised, Western(ised) and highly visual societies. These influences have also infiltrated physical education settings, contributing to market-driven surveillance of physical education teachers’ physical appearance. This paper examines the reflections of a group of physical education teachers working at the primary and secondary levels in Spain concerning subjectivit…
Everything is more difficult when you are different
The aim of this research is to analyse the experiences of seven homosexual students (four boys and three girls) in Physical Education (PE). Their families are also involved in the study, looking in depth at how their children’s experiences have affected their daily lives throughout their adolescence. A qualitative approach is used, exploring the students’ and families’ perceptions from an analytic approach called ‘thinking with theory’ (Jackson &…
I Hate Physical Education'; an analysis of girls' experiences throughout their school life
The objectives of this study were two-fold: to analyse the perceptions of girls who have negative experiences of Physical Education (PE) and to compare this experience with their families’ perspectives on the emotional implications of this in their daily lives. Seven girls in the final year of compulsory secondary education in Spain participated in the study. These participants were selected according to the criterion of having had negative exper…
Foci and factors that contribute to physical educators’ construction of their professional body subjectivities
The main purpose of this study was to examine physical educators’ subjectivities in order to (a) discover the foci and factors that intervene in the construction of their personal and professional body, (b) understand how these might be affected by the dominant socio-cultural ideologies, discourses and practices, and (c) determine to what extent such ideologies, discourses and practices influence their professional relations and pedagogy. Thirtee…
The (virtual) teaching of physical education in times of pandemic
This study analyses the factors that affect the pedagogical practice and the consideration of the subject of physical education (PE) for a group of students in initial training to become teachers, with the intention of (a) discovering what feelings the COVID-19 pandemic arouses in the future teachers when having to teach physical education virtually, (b) investigating the advantages and disadvantages of the virtual teaching of PE during the pande…
Wanting to become PE teachers in Spain
Physical Education (PE) teachers have previous experiences that both shape their particular beliefs about the role and purpose of this school subject as well as their pedagogical practice. The present study aims to examine and deepen our knowledge of future Spanish PE teachers’ previous experiences of and beliefs about PE that condition their pedagogical practice and intentionality within this school subject. The data reported on in this paper we…
"Swimming Against the Current". Analysis of the Discourses of Homosexual Physical Education Teachers Under the Intersectionality Approach
Traditionally, the PE teacher with the highest status was the white, heterosexual male, with a muscular body and belonging to a good socioeconomic level. These stereotypes are subject to socio-political factors that determine power structures and "the way forward," which generated clear discrimination and social injustice. In this sense, and taking sexual identity as a reference, the objective of this research is to analyze the discourses of 8 ho…
Finding the place of content and language integrated learning in physical education within the models-based practice framework
Although the educational intentions of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) seem to be perspicuous, how to put them into practice in different subjects is not so clear-cut. In addition, critical voices within the physical education (PE) arena claim that CLIL may jeopardise the subject. Therefore, CLIL needs to be adjusted in order to remain on the PE agenda. Currently, PE specialists embrace the models-based practice framework, which m…
Yes, I have a disability. Does it prevent me from being a PE teacher? A qualitative approach from the point of view of future PE teachers and their families
Physical Education (PE) teachers are subject to a great deal of social stereotyping. The goal of the study is to analyze the main reasons and motivations of three future PE teachers (two females and one male) with motor disabilities to undertake the profession in the future. Their families and the teachers who have taught them also participate. The disabilities are an arm amputation, severe hip dysmetry and Tourette’s syndrome. These future teach…
The Coexistence Plan at a Secondary School
The main objective of this research is to analyse the Plan for Coexistence at a Spanish Secondary School and its implementation from the perspective of an inclusive model of school management. Beginning with a theoretical review of different national and international contributions centred on inclusive education and the improvement of school coexistence, we have chosen a qualitative methodology that will enable us to listen and to give a voice to…
Effects of a Cooperative Learning Intervention Program on Cyberbullying in Secondary Education
The goal was to assess the effects of an intervention program, based on cooperative learning and involving the whole school community, on the emotional and social evolution of a student who had suffered cyberbullying. The student, her parents, the school administration, a teacher and the student's classmates agreed to participate in the study. A qualitative research design was used, which included interviews, discussion groups and diaries. The in…
Connection between the attitudinal style and students’ assessment responsibility in Physical Education
The goal of the present study was to assess to what extent the pedagogical approach influences physical education students' perceptions of their degree of responsibility in the assessment procedure.684 students (57.3% females and 42.7% males) from the four grades of secondary education with a mean age of 13.72 ± 1.12 years participated within this study.They all experienced the same learning unit on acrobatics under two different instructional ap…
The development and implementation of key competencies in secondary school Physical Education in the city of Burgos
The aim of this study was to analyze the development of key competences required by Secondary Physical Education Teachers, their implementation and monitoring by the perception management teams. The sample consisted of 30 high schools (30 members of management teams and 30 heads of department of Physical Education), of which 58.5% were male and 41.5% female, with a mean age of 44.17 (SD = 6.23). In the working methods have been used quantitative …
Perspectiva del Alumnado sobre la Evaluación Tradicional y la Evaluación Formativa. Contraste de Grupos en las mismas Asignaturas
Este estudio, con una muestra de 357 alumnos de 4 asignaturas de la Universidad de Burgos (España), contrasta la percepción que tiene el alumnado acerca de la evaluación que ha recibido, incidiendo en la dificultad encontrada en el proceso y el nivel de implicación y seguimiento realizado. En cada asignatura, un grupo ha sido evaluado mediante un sistema tradicional y otro mediante evaluación formativa. El cuestionario utilizado ha sido la escala…
Cómo Perciben las Competencias Básicas los Docentes? Estudio Cualitativo sobre su Incorporación como Herramienta de Aprendizaje
Actually, it’s so important to articulate procedures that enable to analyze real work made in schools on Key Competences (KKCC). The aim of this study it was studied the perception management teams and teachers of Physical Education (PE) about this curricular element. The sample used in the research covers all the secondary schools in the capital of Burgos (Spain), a total of thirty. It was studied, using the descriptive analysis of a series of q…
Cómo Perciben las Competencias Básicas los Docentes? Estudio Cualitativo sobre su Incorporación como Herramienta de Aprendizaje
En este estudio, y debido a la relevancia que cobran actualmente las Competencias Básicas (CCBB) en el Sistema Educativo, se presenta la percepción que tienen los equipos directivos y los profesores de Educación Física (EF) sobre dicho elemento curricular. La muestra utilizada en la investigación abarca la totalidad de los centros de Educación Secundaria de la capital de Burgos (España), treinta. Se estudia, mediante el análisis descriptivo de un…
Formative assessment, work regulation, organization, engagement, tracking and attendance in Spanish Universities
The Assessment Systems Scale, a 34-item questionnaire, has been proven a robust, reliable and valid instrument to evaluate assessment procedures at the university level. However, the sample used to validate it was rather small, and proper validation of instruments requires testing on multiple independent samples. The current studies evaluated the reliability and the validity of a reduced version consisting in only 23 items, as well as its interac…
Dedícate a Otra Cosa”
Los estudios autobiográficos han demostrado una contribución científica elevada y una verdadera utilidad para comprender los fenómenos educativos en Educación Física (EF). El presente trabajo analiza el recorrido formativo y profesional de un docente universitario que actualmente trabaja en la formación inicial de maestros de EF. Son tres fases periódicas principales las que se han analizado: (1) “Finalización de los primeros estudios universitar…
Connection between the attitudinal style and students’ assessment responsibility in Physical Education
The goal of the present study was to assess to what extent the pedagogical approach influences physical education students' perceptions of their degree of responsibility in the assessment procedure.684 students (57.3% females and 42.7% males) from the four grades of secondary education with a mean age of 13.72 ± 1.12 years participated within this study.They all experienced the same learning unit on acrobatics under two different instructional ap…
The influence of consumerism on Spanish physical education teachers
Consumer culture and neoliberalism have significantly influenced contemporary globalised, Western(ised) and highly visual societies. These influences have also infiltrated physical education settings, contributing to market-driven surveillance of physical education teachers’ physical appearance. This paper examines the reflections of a group of physical education teachers working at the primary and secondary levels in Spain concerning subjectivit…
The impact of formative and shared or co-assessment on the acquisition of transversal competences in higher education
The use of formative and shared or co-assessment has been shown to improve the motivation, involvement and learning of university students. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect that implementing these processes has on university students’ perception of their acquisition of transversal competences. The participants in the study were 1021 students from five Spanish universities taking degree courses in primary education or physical educat…
School and Sport as “Epistemicic Ludic” in the Abya Yala Cultures
The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between school, play and sport, from a sociocultural, critical and decolonial positioning. In order to do so, it exposes itself to the idea of epistemicide, understood as the way in which modern epistemology destroys its own cultural components and knowledge and imposes Eurocentric criteria in the way of understanding and practicing play and sport. The analysis is divided into three sections…
Foci and factors that contribute to physical educators’ construction of their professional body subjectivities
The main purpose of this study was to examine physical educators’ subjectivities in order to (a) discover the foci and factors that intervene in the construction of their personal and professional body, (b) understand how these might be affected by the dominant socio-cultural ideologies, discourses and practices, and (c) determine to what extent such ideologies, discourses and practices influence their professional relations and pedagogy. Thirtee…
The Coexistence Plan at a Secondary School
The main objective of this research is to analyse the Plan for Coexistence at a Spanish Secondary School and its implementation from the perspective of an inclusive model of school management. Beginning with a theoretical review of different national and international contributions centred on inclusive education and the improvement of school coexistence, we have chosen a qualitative methodology that will enable us to listen and to give a voice to…
Effects of a Cooperative Learning Intervention Program on Cyberbullying in Secondary Education
The goal was to assess the effects of an intervention program, based on cooperative learning and involving the whole school community, on the emotional and social evolution of a student who had suffered cyberbullying. The student, her parents, the school administration, a teacher and the student's classmates agreed to participate in the study. A qualitative research design was used, which included interviews, discussion groups and diaries. The in…
The Mediating Role of the Self-Concept Between the Relationship of the Body Satisfaction and the Intention to Be Physically Active in Primary School Students
The aim was analysed the extent to which anthropometric values, in line with body image and physical ability, predict physical self-concept and the latter in turn predicts the practice and intention to pursue physical activity. A total 302 participants, 150 males and 152 females were recruited from different primary Schools in Extremadura (Spain). The age of the participants ranges of 10 – 13 years old (M = 11.74; SD = .86). The indirect effects …
Contributions of Service-Learning on Pete Students’ Effective Personality
Service-learning (SL) is a pedagogical model focused on achieving curricular goals while providing a community service. Previous research suggests that SL might promote qualities such as self-esteem, motivation, problem-focused coping, decision-making, empathy, and communication, which are associated with a psychological construct known as students' Effective Personality (EP). These studies, however, did not specifically analyse the direct effect…
The Attitudinal Style as a Pedagogical Model in Physical Education
The implementation of the pedagogical model has meant an increase in rigour and coherence in Physical Education (PE) classes. The objectives of the study were twofold; (a) to delimit the characteristics and elements that make up Attitudinal Style as a pedagogical model; (b) to analyze the perception of future teachers on the usefulness and transferability of the model in their classes. Twelve future PE teachers (seven women and five men) with an …
Gender, Physical Self-Perception and Overall Physical Fitness in Secondary School Students
Background: Physical self-perception is often related with better physical fitness perception in adolescents. Moreover, it is an important social cognitive perspective to provide suitable mental health in this population. However, this relationship is unequal between boys and girls. The physical fitness is a marker of health in young population. The aims of the present study were the following: (1) to compare physical self-perception and self-rep…
Familias y Docentes
El cierre de los centros educativos en España ha supuesto una adaptación inmediata sobre la forma de garantizar el aprendizaje. Los docentes han tenido que adaptarse de manera inmediata a un entorno digital de enseñanza y las familias han debido de atender con garantías a las tareas virtuales de sus hijos. El presente estudio tiene dos objetivos: a) analizar las variables relativas a la relación existente entre la familia, los centros educativos …
Wanting to become PE teachers in Spain
Physical Education (PE) teachers have previous experiences that both shape their particular beliefs about the role and purpose of this school subject as well as their pedagogical practice. The present study aims to examine and deepen our knowledge of future Spanish PE teachers’ previous experiences of and beliefs about PE that condition their pedagogical practice and intentionality within this school subject. The data reported on in this paper we…
The Perverse Dynamics of University Career
We seek to describe some of the features and symptoms that define novice university teachers in their attempts to pursue a professional career at university. Presently, university culture revolves around the evaluation of professionals based on the quantity of work published in high-impact journals (“weight evaluations”).This situation not only has its effects at a personal level, but also on the quality of the education that teachers might wish …
Estilo docente y competencia en educación superior
El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la mediación del clima motivacionalentre el estilo interpersonal docente y la satisfacción y frustración de la competencia académica en alumnado de educación superior. El diseño de la investigación es observacional, descriptivo y transversal, con muestreo por conveniencia.Han participado 354 estudiantes universitarios (59.6% varones) (Medad=21.84;DT=1.98) y se han utilizado las siguientes escalas: Estilo In…
A Mediation Model between Self-Esteem, Anxiety, and Depression in Sport
The scientific literature on mental health has found an association between physical activity and emotional wellbeing and recommends active leisure activities as a way of keeping stress under control. The purpose of this research study is to analyze the level of anxiety, the symptoms of depression and the level of self-esteem of people practicing speleology, as well as possible gender differences. This paper also attempts to understand whether se…
Physical Activity and Quality of Life in High School Students
Adolescence is a critical period for the acquisition of health-related behaviors that will transcend later psychological well-being in adulthood. The present study presents a theoretical model whose objective is to analyze how physical activity predicts an adequate quality of life through self-concept and subjective happiness among adolescents. A total of 452 students aged 12 to 15 (M = 13.8; SD = 0.77) from four Compulsory Secondary Education in…
Health Promotion through Movement Behaviors and Its Relationship with Quality of Life in Spanish High School Adolescents
A growing number of studies have highlighted the health benefits of high physical activity, low screen time, and optimal sleep duration among school-age children and adolescents. Objective: The present study proposes to examine the individual and combined association between movement behaviors (physical activity, screen time, and sleep time) and quality of life in boys and girls. Method : A total of 319 Spanish primary and secondary school studen…
Yes, I have a disability. Does it prevent me from being a PE teacher? A qualitative approach from the point of view of future PE teachers and their families
Physical Education (PE) teachers are subject to a great deal of social stereotyping. The goal of the study is to analyze the main reasons and motivations of three future PE teachers (two females and one male) with motor disabilities to undertake the profession in the future. Their families and the teachers who have taught them also participate. The disabilities are an arm amputation, severe hip dysmetry and Tourette’s syndrome. These future teach…
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