Influence of cooperative strategies and mindfulness on the perception and control of emotions in primary physical education. A proposal to improve sustainability in the social dimension

Background: Today, the world we live in poses challenges, such as poverty, inequality, climate change, etc. All these issues that surround us are framed within the SDGs. With the aim of finding new strategies and ways of teaching with which to achieve the SDGs, an intervention is proposed that uses emotions and feelings as a framework, as well as control and attention to these in Primary Education. Method: This proposal is based on the implementation of different strategies and learning styles (cooperative learning, guided discovery, discovery learning, mindfulness, and yoga) divided into sessions in which the students participate. The research is framed within the field of sustainable development and aims to analyze the effect that students receive when applying these strategies, in order to check whether they are valid for contributing to the SDGs. The study obtains its results through the questionnaire "Trait Meta Mood Scale-24, TMMS-24 Spanish version" (Fernández-Berrocal and Extremera, 2005), which is carried out on a sample of students to whom the experimental model is applied and to the students who are included as the control group. Results: The paired samples T-test shows in the experimental group, the difference shows a noticeable decrease in the attention factor in the post-test compared to the pre-intervention test, while in the control group the difference also decreases, but it is not as noticeable. In the clarity factor, the difference increases very slightly in both groups in the post-test compared to the pre-test. Finally, in the repair factor, the results of the experimental group decrease notably with respect to the control group in the post-test, with respect to the pre-test. Conclusions: Due to the limitations of the study, the results were neither significant nor conclusive. It is of great importance to carry out this type of study in order to make further progress in ESD.