Abstract
Background: This article addresses the following question: why don’t primary and secondary school students perform urban walks or hikes during cultural and tourist visits of the cities they live in, when engaging in physical activity (PA)? The aim is to demonstrate that exploring cities on foot is a different, important, and necessary way to perform PA, that leads to improving social relations and exposing individuals to culture; in particular, teachers would be trained for this. Methods: qualitative methodology based on exploratory observation; state-of-the-art literature review; design of a didactic proposal in the form of an Urban Walk. Results: existence of publications on related activities in many countries including Spain; development and implementation of the Urban Walk; opinions of its future teachers and their knowledge of the possibilities and advantages of this proposal and its relationship with different knowledge subjects. Conclusions: the Urban Walk facilitates future teacher knowledge of cities and provides a new approach to PA; physical-cultural activities that complement the proposal need to be designed.
Highlights
Humanity has come a long way ever since man stood up and started walking
The general aim of this work was to demonstrate that travelling through cities on foot is a different, important, and necessary way to engage in physical activity (PA), allowing individuals to approach the city’s cultural life and improve their social relations
The initial question qA: why don’t primary and secondary students engage in walks and urban hikes in their cultural and touristic visits of the towns in which they live or visit? This question led to a long period of exploratory observation complemented by a first phase of state-of-the-art documentary research that was completed with the design of a didactic proposal of an Urban Walk
Summary
Humanity has come a long way ever since man stood up and started walking. Man moved about to get food, to flee from animals, to survive. One of the most relevant aspects of physical activity (PA) practice is its close relationship with health and the lower possibility of death, in addition to a higher quality of life [2]. This article addresses the following question: why don’t primary and secondary school students perform urban walks or hikes during cultural and tourist visits of the cities they live in, when engaging in physical activity (PA)? Results: existence of publications on related activities in many countries including Spain; development and implementation of the Urban Walk; opinions of its future teachers and their knowledge of the possibilities and advantages of this proposal and its relationship with different knowledge subjects. Conclusions: the Urban Walk facilitates future teacher knowledge of cities and provides a new approach to PA; physical-cultural activities that complement the proposal need to be designed
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