Teaching Therapeutic Physical Culture to Asthmatic Students at the Higher Level Supported by Tai Chi

Abstract

The research presented here addresses the problem of the necessary improvement of the teaching of Therapeutic Physical Culture in asthmatic students at the higher level, related to the poor didactic foundation in the use of teaching methods in their connection with the objectives and contents. It presents a theoretical analysis of the main existing references from which the didactic approach to teaching is developed; made up of three fundamental components: cultural, procedural and interactive of personal involvement. Their relationships and the development of a new teaching method based on Tai Chi provide the foundations of a methodology for which teachers promote a developmental teaching based on the self-control of the disease in their students. Its implementation developed through workshops for teachers and the quasi-experiment in students, reveals the significant changes experienced from the application of a new program based on Tai Chi exercises.