The Practice of Corporal Expression and Dance in Outdoor Spaces in Teacher Training

Abstract

This study reflects on space as a didactic resource in the practice of corporal expression in the university context. The aim is to identify the advantages, disadvantages
and relevant aspects of the use of outdoor spaces surrounding the classroom, in the teaching-learning of the subject Expresión Corporal y Danza of the Degree
in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences. Over the course of one academic year, indoor and outdoor practices were combined, and students were asked to write
systematically in a diary. In general, they perceived collective practice outdoors as motivating, both in imitation tasks and in improvisation and exploration of the
body in the environment: they considered that the outdoors stimulates creativity and increases freedom of movement. However, they indicated some difficulties
associated with inhibition in the face of external observers, as well as the need to organize spatial, temporal and material aspects, highlighting attention to the floor.
The observation of the analyzed categories reveals the importance of adaptation to the paradoxical conditions of risk and stimulation of the outdoors and leads us
to the transitional proposition of conditioned intermediate spaces, as well as the combined indoor-outdoor use.