Resumen

SUQUILANDA ESPINOSA, José Daniel; TUZ PARDO, Víctor Alfonso; BERMUDEZ ZEA, Pabla Vanessa  y  GUERRA IGLESIAS, Sonia. Pedagogical alternative to strengthen body awareness in children with Down syndrome from Physical Education. Rev Podium [online]. 2024, vol.19, n.3  Epub 01-Dic-2024. ISSN 1996-2452.

Body awareness allows children to learn about the body and how it handles itself in different situations. Likewise, people with Down Syndrome (DS) often need support and accompaniment to become aware of the shapes, sensations, limits, functions and movements of their body and how they feel about each motor experience. The work presented here aims to elaborate an educational strategy for the treatment of body awareness in 11-12-year-old schoolchildren with Down Syndrome in Physical Education classes. And it is contextualized in the Specialized Educational Unit Fisco Misional Don Bosco of the city of Zaruma-Ecuador. The research is based on a quantitative-qualitative approach where theoretical level methods such as historical-logical and analysis-synthesis and empirical level documentary analysis, observation and survey were used to interpret the derivations obtained at each stage of the research. The results demand an urgent pedagogical transformation for the methodological treatment in (PE) classes of children with (DS), so a curricular adaptation is presented in the Physical Education class and teachers are oriented about the treatment of body awareness and its incidence to modify the emotional and motor responses in students with (DS). The aim is for them to recognize the situation of their body in space, allowing a correct connection with the mind and providing greater balance and stability.

Palabras clave : Body Awareness; Physical Education; Down syndrome; Social Inclusion.

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