Juegos tradicionales para desarrollar las capacidades coordinativas en escolares mediante la educación física

Abstract

This research on traditional games to develop coordination skills in schoolchildren through physical education was conducted through a literature review of diverse academic articles contained accurate information. The inquiry has a qualitative approach with a descriptive scope. The scientific articles used were significant for performing the research since they supported identifying significant aspects of teachers and students. For gathering information, several articles were reviewed, with a preference for the most recent ones, mainly after 2010, in Google Scholar, SciELO, Redalyc, and Scopus databases. Traditional games such as jump rope, handkerchief, police and thieves, hopscotch, king rules, cat and mouse, sack race, and rope help to improve the different physical conditional and coordinative abilities; among these are agility, balance, flexibility, rhythm, coordination, coupling, reaction, orientation, which benefits to students, since the active practice of the traditional games not only help comprehensively in the individual but also is a cultural preservation. Keywords: traditional games, skills, coordinative, development, physical education