School sports initiation of basketball from Sport for All in Physical Education

Abstract

One of the most remarkable difficulties that Cuban sport faces is the appropriate conduction of the process of school sports initiation, process that when it is positive under scientific foundations opens the doors to the development of potentialities in future athletes. The objective of this research was to determine the irregularities derived from the conduction of the process of school sports initiation from Sport for All in the dimension of Physical Education in the ages of 8-9 years old. In order to achieve the proposed goals, the authors relied on theoretical, empirical and statistical-mathematical methods for data processing, taking as a sample directors who work in the provincial and municipal direction of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation in the province of Cienfuegos, as well as Physical Education teachers who are linked to the teaching-learning process in primary education, to whom surveys, interviews and their performance during the conduction of the process were applied. The result was that the preparation of the professionals working in Physical Education to lead the process of school sports initiation of Basketball from Sport for All is insufficient, besides, they do not have a solid foundation in the pedagogical components related to methods, procedures, contents and methodologies, from the methodological insufficiencies with contemporary productive approaches for the ages of 8-9 years.