Cargando…

Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being

As classrooms become more and more diverse, it is imperative to provide physical education teacher education (PETE) students with opportunities to develop competencies that promote quality education for all students. In this study, PETE students applied a physical education service-learning (SL) pro...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Valverde-Esteve, Teresa, Salvador-Garcia, Celina, Gil-Gómez, Jesús, Maravé-Vivas, María
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34068915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105216
_version_ 1783699299660464128
author Valverde-Esteve, Teresa
Salvador-Garcia, Celina
Gil-Gómez, Jesús
Maravé-Vivas, María
author_facet Valverde-Esteve, Teresa
Salvador-Garcia, Celina
Gil-Gómez, Jesús
Maravé-Vivas, María
author_sort Valverde-Esteve, Teresa
collection PubMed
description As classrooms become more and more diverse, it is imperative to provide physical education teacher education (PETE) students with opportunities to develop competencies that promote quality education for all students. In this study, PETE students applied a physical education service-learning (SL) program aimed at enhancing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children’s motor domain and general well-being—objectives that are connected to the third focus of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Traditionally, research on SL has focused on students’ outcomes, and there is a call to examine SL’s effects on service receivers, which is the gap this paper aspires to fill. The aim of this study was to measure the postural control of children with ASD who were involved in a 6-month SL program in comparison to ASD peers in a control group. A quasi-experimental design was used in which a total of 29 children with ASD participated. The results of the experimental group showed a significant improvement in the vestibular pathways, an improvement trend in the somatosensorial and visual pathways and improvements in the dynamic tests. This study provides valuable feedback about how SL programs can benefit ASD children to improve their postural control, thus contributing to the third SDG concerned with well-being promotion.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8155850
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-81558502021-05-28 Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being Valverde-Esteve, Teresa Salvador-Garcia, Celina Gil-Gómez, Jesús Maravé-Vivas, María Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As classrooms become more and more diverse, it is imperative to provide physical education teacher education (PETE) students with opportunities to develop competencies that promote quality education for all students. In this study, PETE students applied a physical education service-learning (SL) program aimed at enhancing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children’s motor domain and general well-being—objectives that are connected to the third focus of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Traditionally, research on SL has focused on students’ outcomes, and there is a call to examine SL’s effects on service receivers, which is the gap this paper aspires to fill. The aim of this study was to measure the postural control of children with ASD who were involved in a 6-month SL program in comparison to ASD peers in a control group. A quasi-experimental design was used in which a total of 29 children with ASD participated. The results of the experimental group showed a significant improvement in the vestibular pathways, an improvement trend in the somatosensorial and visual pathways and improvements in the dynamic tests. This study provides valuable feedback about how SL programs can benefit ASD children to improve their postural control, thus contributing to the third SDG concerned with well-being promotion. MDPI 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8155850/ /pubmed/34068915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105216 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Valverde-Esteve, Teresa
Salvador-Garcia, Celina
Gil-Gómez, Jesús
Maravé-Vivas, María
Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being
title Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being
title_full Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being
title_fullStr Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being
title_short Sustainable Service-Learning in Physical Education Teacher Education: Examining Postural Control to Promote ASD Children’s Well-Being
title_sort sustainable service-learning in physical education teacher education: examining postural control to promote asd children’s well-being
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34068915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105216
work_keys_str_mv AT valverdeesteveteresa sustainableservicelearninginphysicaleducationteachereducationexaminingposturalcontroltopromoteasdchildrenswellbeing
AT salvadorgarciacelina sustainableservicelearninginphysicaleducationteachereducationexaminingposturalcontroltopromoteasdchildrenswellbeing
AT gilgomezjesus sustainableservicelearninginphysicaleducationteachereducationexaminingposturalcontroltopromoteasdchildrenswellbeing
AT maravevivasmaria sustainableservicelearninginphysicaleducationteachereducationexaminingposturalcontroltopromoteasdchildrenswellbeing