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The purpose of the study was to assess the scope of an action plan for health education, prevention and management of back pain, with the School Community Integration approach from the Physical Education Area in the empowerment of knowledge and its application in favor of a comprehensive health to members of an educational institution in the city of Quito; it had as a methodological approach the socio-critical paradigm, according to the participatory action research method. Representatives of children enrolled in said institution are included as study subjects. The study was carried out in three stages. 1- Participatory diagnosis, where back pain appears as a frequent condition. 2- Preventive program that integrates anatomical, biomechanical, postural hygiene and exercise knowledge. 3- Evaluation of knowledge and skills acquired. Clinical history and determination of risk factors, application of pre and post-test related to back care, posture and exercises were performed. Based on the scores obtained and the observation of acquired skills, it is determined that the action plan allowed the acquisition of cognitive, behavioral and procedural values in all participants. The Community School Integration approach from the Physical Education Area is considered as a viable program of execution by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education. These elements contribute to the maintenance, promotion and prevention of health conditions of community members.

Introduction: The training of the Physical Culture professional needs a systematic and comprehensive process in which interdisciplinarity is essential, hence the need for this research due to the shortcomings in the treatment required by the subject at the University of Sciences of the Physical Culture and Sport (UCCFD) "Manuel Fajardo". Objective: The objective was to propose didactic games that favor interdisciplinarity in the process of training Physical Culture professionals through the Rhythmic and Ludic Education subject. Materials and methods : A sample of 225 first-year students belonging to the regular day course and 17 teachers of the subject was selected. Research methods and techniques were used, among which the following stand out: historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, functional structural systemic, documentary analysis, survey, specialist criteria and the empirical distribution of relative and absolute frequencies, which allowed the design of ten didactic games considered. as a way to promote interdisciplinarity by the criteria of ten specialists. Results: The didactic games are structured with a logical, methodological and systemic order in correspondence with the contents of the disciplines and subjects of the first year of the Bachelor's degree in Physical Culture. Conclusions: The validation reveals the potentialities of interdisciplinarity for the training of Physical Culture professionals.

The vertiginous changes produced in society force Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to train citizens with professional and personal skills capable of facing permanent challenges. In this context, the work of the teacher-tutor contributes significantly to this purpose and should be strengthened. For this, a diagnosis is made which objective was to know the state of implementation of the tutoring and its impact on the training of the students. It is started from the bibliographical analysis on the conception and practice of university tutoring to, through a quantitative study, determines the criteria of the students as main actors. The probabilistic sample consisted of 180 students, from a population of 1557, from the Faculty of Education, Human Sciences and Technology of the National University of Chimborazo, to whom a scientifically validated survey was applied, which determined 97% reliability and 95% confidence, which means a high percentage of correspondence between the study variables and the measurement scales. These students receive various subjects, including some related to physical activity and sports. The results obtained were submitted to the multivariate inferential analysis that allowed verifying the tendency of the students with respect to the tutorial activity offered by the Higher Education institution.

Gamification is a learning technique that transfers the full potential of games to the educational field to improve the results of students in class, it consists of transferring the mechanics of games to other daily practices, which allows turning routine activities into a playful learning process and promotes the natural way of learning. The research that is presented tried to show an experience of gamification as a didactic resource in Physical Education classes, in the students of the University of Guayaquil. The documentary review, observation and survey were used as scientific methods, which facilitated knowing the behavioral, cognitive and motivational behavior of the university students studied, as well as drawing recurrent methodological guidelines from gamification, which caused significant changes in the educational context from Physical Education, both personalized and group.

The study promotes discussions related to the health-disease process, from the perspective of culture with a focus on the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a reflective theoretical study, based on the critical interpretation of literature, selected by the narrative review. The constituent factors of the health-disease process demonstrate that the Covid-19 Pandemic has multiple facets, which involve environmental, socio-educational, genetic, ideological, political, economic and cultural scenarios. It is understood that the social determinants of the health-disease process are influenced by cultural elements, which materialize in society and, in order to be legitimized, necessarily pass through the beliefs and values ??of individuals, such as hygiene measures, interpersonal distancing and the use of masks. Cultural factors exert force on the determinants of the health-disease process, so that the understanding of the cause of illnesses and modes of care lacks a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional approach, as manifested during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The covid-19 pandemic can be seen as one of the biggest crises faced by couples and families to date. This article aims to discuss the nature of marital conflicts in this specific situation. The hypothesis raised would be that these conflicts between couples are due to the simultaneous existence of two models of conjugality: the traditional and the egalitarian, associated with the dynamics of inter and intrapsychic functioning of each, and the aspect of psychic transmission. Based on the theoretical framework of Linkage Psychoanalysis, clinical vignettes and reports from urban middle class couples in the media will be used as analysis material. Thus, we infer that the increased cohabitation between the pairs has contributed to uncovering hidden aspects, causing conflicts and difficulties in the previously established pacts and in the organization of a new routine. While some separated, others sought therapy, and others were able to renegotiate, and reinvent themselves.   

The taboo of death persists in our society and although, every day, between concealment and spectacle, more people die, we fail to reflect on this inexorable part of life. This study offers an understanding of the experience of death from a phenomenological-existential perspective, taking the lyrics of Brazilian songs as its units of analysis. Guided by the writings of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre, Lanigan’s semiotic phenomenology was used in an analysis to produce understanding via emerging themes (essences) from the lyrics of 20 songs. The themes extracted were: cruelty, helplessness, heroism, unpredictability, perpetual motion, mutilation and vulnerability. This phenomenological understanding highlighted the permanence of life as “death that never dies” in the human stories, as well the paradox of death as from a phenomenological viewpoint on authenticity and inauthenticity. This study is intended to serve as fuel for thought and to assist health personnel in approaching the subject of death with patients beyond the reach of curative therapy (in palliative care) and bereaved families.

The new coronavirus pandemic has implied transformations in all sectors of social life, in this article we focus on an analysis of its impacts in the scientific field. With the main objective of understanding the changes that the pandemic has brought about in the daily lives of students of the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Amazonas, we developed an exploratory study, quantitative and qualitative, situated in the Sociology of Education. The study was concerned with the experiences of these young researchers regarding the transformations in their lives and in their research projects, from the isolation and suspension of face-to-face activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The results revealed that the pandemic has had personal, professional and academic consequences for these researchers, among which we highlight: social isolation; distance from the university campus and its resources; increased burden of work for women; resizing of projects, with emphasis on those with a qualitative approach and which initially provided for field research. Keywords: Education Research; Graduate Programmes; Pandemic

This study analyses the impacts and challenges of emergency remote teaching in Higher Education institutions in Porto due to the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. We carried out an exploratory study of a qualitative nature to analyze the perceptions of teachers and students about the digitalisation of the teaching and learning process in Higher Education. Data were collected through semi-structured online, synchronous interviews with ten professors, who accepted to participate, and balances of the lived experience written and made available on the Moodle Platform by ten students. Subsequently, content analysis and triangulation were carried out with the support of the Nvivo Software. The study revealed that remote teaching in Higher Education had an impact on reinforcing the training of teachers and students in using new technologies and on changing pedagogical practices. In addition, it can contribute to researchers' reflections on online data collection in qualitative research.

Paraguay, through its Ministry of Education and Sciences, created the National Plan for Education in Times of Pandemic Tu Escuela en casa, which defined guidelines for education in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the suspension of classroom classes. The aim of this article is to present the Paraguayan plan and the perceptions of society in its implamation. The study is of a qualitative nature and has an interpretative character, in which it was found that the main challenges for the implementation of the plan were the infrastructure of the educational system, internet connectivity and teacher training. On the other hand, it highlights the importance and concern that the country delegates education when preparing a National Plan for the pandemic period, the flexibility of the Plan in the face of adversities and cultural differences and, the participation of different sectors in the elaboration and implementation of this plan. Keywords: COVID-19; Emergency Remote Education; National Plan; Educational directives.