Effects of a five-day Nordic skiing camp on the individuals and on the group.

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Eduard Inglés Yuba ◽  
Víctor Labrador Roca ◽  
Unai Sáez de Ocáriz Granja
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Outdoor Sports ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Nordic Skiing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Scholars from diverse disciplines are increasingly concerned with the benefits generated by the practice of physical activity in the natural environment on individuals (Gomila Serra, 2014; Jirásek et al., 2016). This chapter attempts to shed light on the various scientific approaches that confirm this beneficial relationship. It also contributes to the holistic and integral conception of the human being, made up of different dimensions: physical, mental, emotional and social (Sandell et al., 2009; Borkowski, 2011). After an introductory approach to the relationship between outdoor sports and the integral development of their participants, an empirical study is shown. A five-day Nordic skiing camp is used to evaluate the effects of this practice on the individuals and on the group.

scholarly journals Activities in the natural environment and experiential methodology as tools for the integral development of individuals | Las actividades en el medio natural y la metodología experiencial como herramientas para el desarrollo integral de los individuos

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (27) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Lázaro Mediavilla Saldaña ◽  
Virginia Gómez Barrios ◽  
Laura Martín Talavera ◽  
Vicente Gómez Encinas
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Educational Methodology

ResumenLos procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje se pueden desarrollar en contextos diversos y con metodologías educativas diferentes, pero no todas ellas, ni todos los espacios, tienen el mismo potencial para conseguir que los estudiantes adquieran los conocimientos tratados ni para lograr un desarrollo de todas sus capacidades (físicas, cognitivas, psicológicas). Esta es la base desde la que surge el siguiente estudio. El objetivo principal es comparar los beneficios que se producen en los estudiantes en relación a los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje y a su desarrollo integral, en función del aula y de la metodología educativa empleada. Para ello, se han pasado dos cuestionarios, uno después de las sesiones en aula y otro después de las sesiones prácticas en el medio natural, a un grupo de 124 estudiantes de la asignatura de Actividades en el Medio Natural, de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte-INEF de Madrid. A la vista de los resultados, destacan el 17,05% de diferencia entre la adquisición de aprendizajes tras las sesiones en la naturaleza en comparación con las sesiones en aula. Se concluye que las actividades en el medio natural, llevadas a cabo con una metodología experiencial, suponen mayores beneficios en cuanto al grado de conocimientos adquiridos y en cuanto al desarrollo de competencias sociales y personales de los participantes.AbstractThe teaching-learning processes can be developed in diverse contexts and with different educational methodologies. But not all of them, and not all the spaces, have the same potential to achieve that the students acquire the treated knowledge or to achieve a development of all their skills (physical, cognitive, psychological). This is the basis from which the following study arises. The main objective is to compare the benefits produced in students in relation to the teaching-learning processes and their integral development, depending on the classroom and on the educational methodology used. For this purpose, two questionnaires were given, one after the classroom sessions and the other after the practical sessions in the natural environment, to a group of 124 students of the subject of Activities in the Natural Environment, of the Faculty of Sciences of Physical Activity and Sports-INEF of Madrid. The results highlight the 17.05% difference between learning acquisition after sessions in nature compared to classroom sessions. It is concluded that activities in the natural environment, carried out with an experiential methodology, represent greater benefits in terms of the degree of knowledge acquired and in terms of the development of social and personal skills of the participants.

scholarly journals Ecophilosophy and the natural environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Hull
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Relationship

The article contains a semantic analysis of the terms of ecophilosophy and discusses the theme widely as well as closely presenting the relationship between a human being and the natural environment.

scholarly journals ISLAMIC EDUCATION AND LIBERATION FROM FEUDALISM

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Syaiful Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sociological Aspect

This article aimed at describing Islamic Education strategies and functions in liberating humankind from feudalism. Islam Believes that everybody’s status is equal, one thing that makes him different is his piety. There are Three harmonious relationships can be identified; those are the relationship between human being and God “Allah SWT” (Habblun min Allah, theological aspect), between human being and other human being (Hablun min al-nas, athropo-sociological aspect), and between human being and the natural environment (Hablun min al-‘alam, cosmological aspect). These harmonious relationships are the manifestation of perfect faithfulness of a Muslim to Allah SWT.In the religious dimension, the main purpose of Islam is to develop awareness and understanding about the meaning and of human’s life in relation to God. Meanwhile, in terms of social dimension, the purpose of Islamic Education is to develop understanding of harmonious relationship, either between human beings or between human being with the environment. In this context, human beings hold the responsibility for restraining a society from obstinacy, inanity, and anarchism. In this respect, the concept of liberalism in Islamic Education is to place teachers and students in a harmonious relationship. This relationship is to create learning atmosphere which is based on the principle of democratic and two-way relationship.

scholarly journals Physical activity of tourism and recreation students in terms of accressibility to open areas

Turyzm ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Marcin Pasek ◽  
Jacek Olszewski
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Open Area ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Physical Recreation ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the article is to present the factors which affect the choice of place of recreation, as well as indicate the preferred forms of physical activity taken up there. The authors also discussed the relationship between distance from open areas and frequency of visits. Moreover, they evaluated current knowledge about the role of the natural environment as a physical recreation space. The research was conducted among a group of 305 physically active individuals (students of the Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Gdańsk), using questionnaires. The respondents defined the role of location in comparison to other motivational factors for a range of physical activities (recreation). They also spoke about their preferred forms of physical activity in the natural environment, compared to the roles of natural and human environments with regard to physical activity. They also provided an answer to the question whether an open area which does not provide respondents with an opportunity to undertake their favoured recreation would remain of interest. The study results demonstrate the unquestionable importance of having access to attractive natural surroundings with respect to physical activity. This allows a relation to be made between leisure in the natural environment and an improvement in the health of the physically active.

scholarly journals Using 3D modelling and printing to study avian cognition from different geometric dimensions

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 181938
Author(s):  
Canchao Yang ◽  
Wei Liang ◽  
Anders Pape Møller
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
Geometric Dimension ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Avian Cognition ◽  
Foreign Objects ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Printing Method

Studying animal cognition is meaningful because it helps us understand how animals adapt to the natural environment. Many birds build nests, clean their nests and reject foreign objects from their nests, which provide an optimal opportunity for studying their cognition toward foreign objects in nests. However, hand-made models used in previous studies have many deficiencies that considerably constrain our capacity to understand the evolution of avian cognition of foreign objects because they are unquantifiable and dependent on different features. We established a 3D modelling and printing method to manipulate one geometric dimension of a model while controlling for others, which allowed us to investigate avian cognition for different dimensions independently. Here we introduce this method, conduct an empirical study as an example, and discuss its applications to further studies.

scholarly journals Impact of Physical Activity Practice and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Relation to Multiple Intelligences among University Students

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2630
Author(s):  
José Luis Ubago-Jiménez ◽  
Félix Zurita-Ortega ◽  
Silvia San Román-Mata ◽  
Pilar Puertas-Molero ◽  
Gabriel González-Valero
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
University Students ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Mediterranean Diet ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Physical activity is important at any time of life. Particularly in the university, people tend to have more sedentary life, due to their studies. Eating habits are another health factor to consider. In addition, the Multiple Intelligences theory is a proposal that seeks the integral development and well-being of people. A descriptive, cross-sectional, and non-experimental research with the purpose of this study is to establish the relationships between practice of physical activity and the intelligences and determine the relationship between diet and the different types of intelligence in 215 university students. Findings indicate higher adherence to Mediterranean Diet in women and higher physical activity scores in men. Regarding multiple intelligences, men have higher indices in Bodily-kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Logical-mathematical, Musical, and Spatial intelligences, while women show higher levels in relation to Linguistic, Intrapersonal, and Naturalistic intelligences. Main conclusions from this study suggest the relationship between multiple intelligence and healthy habits, while also highlighting the need to improve eating habits and achieve greater adherence to Mediterranean Diet.

scholarly journals Theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of attitude to the discrimination of the ethno lookism

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.A. Labunskaya
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Discriminatory Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Empirical Approaches

The article argues that the prohibition on the part of society displays ethno lookism as "ordinary" discriminatory practices aimed at representatives of ethno-cultural groups with a certain type of appearance, it leads to the actualization of masked, hid- den forms of this type of discrimination. This determines the transition to the study of the relevance of non-straight ethno lookism ways of expression. Previously developed by the author, "ethno-socio-psychological model of an empirical study of the re- lationship to ethno lookism" remaining base is insufficient to explain the phenomenon of variable, selective "attitude to the ethno lookism". The wide variation in levels of adopting discriminatory behavior of another, significant variations in the relationship between the model included factors within the studied groups, and between them have led to the development of the second model, called "subjective empirical model to study the relationship ethno lookism". The creation of such an empirical model is due to explanatory and predictive capabilities of the principle of subjectivity, as well as the level of subjectivity relationships with its human being, with a variety of ways and forms of human interaction with other people. The research was conducted with the financial support from Russian Foundation for Humanities (Project no. 16-36-00049 “Sociopsychological theoretical-empirical model of a study on the attitudes towards ethnolookism, i.e. discrimination which is based on everyday terms denoting the types of appearance”).

scholarly journals Thinking and behaving “Otherwise”: An anthropological enquiry into utopia, image and ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Hans Jonas ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The word “utopia” was coined by Thomas More and refers to the unreal and ideal state described in his Utopia, first published in 1516. Following the example of Plato’s Republic, More as well as other thinkers and writers of the 16th and 17th century reflect on the political relevance of utopia and provide unique accounts of ideal, just, and perfect “no places”, as paradigms and standards of social, political, and religious reformation of the coeval world. However, the political significance of utopia relies on a basic anthropological feature, which incidentally is already underlined by More: the relationship between imagination and experience. This means that: 1) the human being’s “eidetic” freedom is characterised by the inseparable relationship between imagination, reflection, experience and action; 2) utopia is capable of disclosing the transformative and normative features related to the human being’s constitution; 3) utopia can be fruitfully used to motivate human will and mobilise support for human flourishing. In this article I endeavour to show that among contemporary philosophers it is Hans Jonas who most fully develops the anthropological significance of utopia by investigating the very relationship between imagination and experience, and by underlining how the eidetic and reflective constitution of the human being leads to ethics. As a further goal, I wish to highlight that the anthropological relevance of utopia can shed light on our imaginative and ambivalent nature, and provide a practical and educational basis for the achievement of an “ethics of images” for the current digital era. For this purpose I shall draw on the thinking of Marie-José Mondzain and Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, among other scholars.

scholarly journals Ecology of religion: a hermeneutical model

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Meyer-Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

We have to investigate the function of religion, the nature of the environment, and the nature of the human being. We have to ask: what is the nature of the relationship which connects people to their world? The aim of this paper is to present the outline of a new hermeneutical model in ecology of religion. Here the term "ecology of religion" serves as an umbrella to unify different methodological tools which are needed. As the term ecology implies, what is at issue is the impact of the environment on religion investigated through the interrelation between living organisms and their environment. From the fact that the subfield is defined as contextual research, it follows that the environment is principally a non-religious context. The orientation for ecology of religion, as represented here, is the investigation of the direct interrelation of the human being, actor in all cultural processes, with the natural environment. If it were our intention to reduce human nature to a biological organism, then we could place our approach in the field of biology. But, because it is our intention to show that the human being by nature is essentially one that lives a religion and is enabled to do so through cognitive processes, it is cognitive psychology that offers the orientation for our research.

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