The cooperative effort as a stimulus to promote group, emotional and cognitive aspects in young students

Abstract

“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved”. Mattie Stepanek At present, cooperation is a fundamental aspect for the education and integral development of children and adolescents. The effort through physical activities, and cooperative games with a high demand of physical intensity intrinsic to the proposed stimulus, could be key to improve groupal aspects, team values and cognitive-emotional factors, also important for future work success. We present the most outstanding results of a study aimed at increasing the above variables through the practice of cooperative high intensity interval physical situations. Recent research has shown that both physical activity and cooperation, separately, can be used for this purpose. However, the interrelation of these variables based on an integral proposal is still little studied. It is concluded that the high intensity physical cooperative effort can have positive effects beyond the physical aspects widely contrasted in the scientific literature. It is suggested to take advantage of the high intensity ( greater than 80% HRmax), as well as the use of situations of problem solving or cooperative challenges, to promote social and cognitive-emotional aspects in young people.