Vol. 14 No. 28 (2021): Physical education and arts education: teaching styles, methodologies, strategies and innovative proposals

The basic curriculum in Primary and Secondary Education, as well as in the artistic disciplines, establishes the importance of using different teaching styles, methodologies, resources and teaching and learning strategies, with great relevance for physical education, dance, theatre, corporal expression and music as means to favour personal and social development. Similarly, emerging pedagogical methods reflect the importance of individualised teaching, taking into account the characteristics of the person in interaction with the context in which he or she develops. However, in order for these methods to favour the teaching and learning process, it is necessary to know the learning styles of students and the teaching styles used by teachers, which in turn respond to the great diversity that exists in the classroom. In this context, both physical education and the performing arts in their different corporal expression contents contribute to the integral formation of the individual and culture. These are fundamental aspects for favouring cross-cutting and interdisciplinary knowledge that facilitates the acquisition of the pupils' basic competences. Where teacher training becomes relevant to promote new ways of teaching and learning, reflection and investigation of professional practice, creating motivating environments and democratic coexistence in the plural society of the 21st century.