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Sustainable environmental development: a new approach to physical education for post-pandemic in Ecuador

Abstract:

Ecuador has promoted the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in education, through the validity of the open and flexible national curriculum since 2016, allowing the teacher to make gradations and contextualizations in the curricular contents and their levels of complexity, depending on the learning needs and requirements of students; supported in the pandemic by different technological resources and active methodological strategies in remote education. The objective of this research was to explore the alignment of the environmental sustainable development pillar with Ecuadorian Physical Education during the pandemic. A theoretical investigation was carried out with a documentary analysis, finding that the curriculum in addition to the playful, inclusive and corporeality approaches, during the virtual and distance curricular proposals, they developed a fourth approach called ecological, which will allow in the post-pandemic to propose methodological strategies directed to the teaching of respect for nature for its care and protection through the interaction between physical activities and natural spaces. It is concluded that, to apply environmental sustainability strategies in physical education, commitments of responsibility and participation must be fulfilled, to reduce the environmental impact between the activities carried out and the environment in which the students and teachers operate.