Corporal Expression and Communication
Code: 102049 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Education | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Spei Macia Fabrega
- Email:
- spei.macia@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
To study this subject, it is advisable to have a practical base in the field of Body Expression.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Students should be able to:
1- Develop expression and communication capabilities of the body.
2- Develop creative possibilities for individual work in a group.
3- Learn to build a fictional and dramatic space as a place of application and experimentation of the mechanisms of expression-body communication
4- Master the basic procedures for teaching Corporal Expression in Primary Education.
5- Acquire favorable attitudes toward an educational conception of corporal expression, essential for the integral formation of the person.
Competences
- Acquiring resources to encourage lifelong participation in sports activities both inside and outside the school.
- Analyse and recognise one's own socio-emotional skills (in terms of strengths, potentialities and weaknesses), to develop those that they are necessary for professional development.
- Design and regulate learning spaces in contexts of diversity that take into account gender equality, equity and respect for human rights and observe the values of public education.
- Foster reading and critical analysis of the texts in different scientific fields and cultural contents in the school curriculum.
- Incorporate information and communications technology to learn, communicate and share in educational contexts.
- Maintain a respectful attitude to the natural, social and cultural environment to foster values, behaviours and practices that attend to gender equality, equity and respect for human rights.
- Manage information in relation to the professional field for decision making and the preparation of reports.
- Reflect on classroom experiences in order to innovate and improve teaching work. Acquire skills and habits for autonomous and cooperative learning and promote it among pupils.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Work in teams and with teams (in the same field or interdisciplinary).
Learning Outcomes
- Adapt teaching and learning programs and activities to pupil diversity, also considering pupils with special educational needs.
- Analyse the indicators of sustainability of academic and professional activities in the areas of knowledge, integrating social, economic and environmental dimensions.
- Establish work teams to develop activities independently.
- Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one?s own area of knowledge.
- Incorporating the motor skills, body expression, physical conditioning, play and sporting activities as content of school physical education and sequencing them throughout primary education.
- Obtaining the PE resources that encourage inclusive education in contexts of diversity.
- Programming, organising and applying learning and contents in education for health in physical education health education, designing and developing educational projects or programming units that make it possible to adapt the physical education curriculum to the school and promote the quality of the contexts.
- Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and environmental benefits.
- Propose ways to evaluate projects and actions for improving sustainability.
- Sequencing perception-motor capabilities throughout primary school teaching according to the internal logic of this content.
- Understand personal differences that arise in PE activities as an aspect to be dealt with using educational criteria.
- Using ICTs and CLTs to search for information and to develop and draw up practical work and didactic proposals in the field of Physical Education.
- Using motor skills and body language as elements pertaining to communication skills.
Content
- Body language and body language.
- The body expressiveness as the study of movement in space.
- The body expressiveness as the study of movement in the space occupied by others.
- The expressive exploration of time.
- The expression of emotions.
- Measurement and evaluation of human expressiveness.
- Creating a fictional and dramatic space.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Theoretical-practical sessions will be conducted mainly through exhibitions by the teacher in relation to the basic contents of the agenda, encouraging student participation. | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 13 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervised practice sessions | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 13 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Study and personal work | 75 | 3 | 1, 13 |
| Study and personal work | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Methodology
The course consists of theoretical and practical sessions:
The theoretical sessions will be conducted mainly through presentations by the teacher in relation to the basic contents of the syllabus. Encouraging student participation.
The practical sessions will involve a major body work experienced by students. This work will be done from the application of various methodologies. The teacher will also provide adequate theoretical support to practice and will encourage the students to reflect from their experience.
The sessions will be conducted basically from the teacher proposals however, in the last classes intervention will be key for students in small groups, choose and develop a project likely to be represented.
In one of the last classes, students will dedicate 15 'to respond to the surveys about the evaluation of teaching activity and on the subject.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For couples: Representation of an exercise | 15% | 0 | 0 | 6, 5, 13 |
| For small groups: Artistic and expressive project | 40% | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 11, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 8, 10, 12, 13 |
| For small groups: Representation an exercise | 15% | 0 | 0 | 1, 6, 11, 5, 13 |
| Individual: Journal/dossier of the course | 10% | 0 | 0 | 5, 13 |
| Individual: Work, in writing, critical reflection on two shows of theater and/or profesional dance | 15% | 0 | 0 | 1, 6, 13 |
| Three-group people: A written comment of each "practica" session | 5% | 0 | 0 | 1, 11, 13 |
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
THE TEACHING METHODOLOGY I THE EVALUATION PROPOSED MAY EXPERIENCE SOME MODIFICATION DEPENDING ON THE RESTRICTIONS TO THE PRESENTIALITY THAT THE SANITARY AUTHORITIES IMPOSE.
Evaluation
Assessment tasks:
Individual
- Work, in writing, critical reflection on two shows of theater and / or professional dance (15%)
- Journal of the subject -Activity complementarily (10%)
Couples
- Reasoned, in writing, of each practice session (5%) Comments. Not exceeding 15 minutes.
- Representation of an exercise (15%). The representation will be done in pairs but will be evaluated individually.
Small groups
- Representation of an exercise (15%). The representation will be done in small groups but the evaluation will be individual.
- Artistic and expressive Project (40%). The evaluation of the whole project is individual.
Important observations
To pass the course:
- Should attend (at least) 80% of the contact hours.
SINGLE EVALUATION
This Assignature contemplates the unique evaluation but, it is important to keep in mind that, this option does not exempt at least 80% of the sessions.
EVALUATION ACTIVITIES AND DELIVERY DATE/COMPLETION
- Written exam on the contents of the subject. 30%
- Individual representation of an exercise. Content: spatial and temporal perception. Duration: 2 minutes. (15%)
- Individual representation of an exercise. Content: Expression emotions/sensations. Duration: 2 minutes. (15%)
- Individual realization of an artistic-expressive project. (40%) The project will consist of two parts (practice+ theoretical):
- Practical part: From a specific topic and within the scope of theater and/or dance, an important work will have to be developed, to be represented. (30%)
<spanclass="HwtZe" lang="en"> - Theoretical part: prepare in writing a proposal similar to the project presented, adapted to Primary Education Stage(10%)
EXAMINE I PRESENTATION ACTIVITIES: January 19/2026. 18 to 21 h.
RECOVERY: Frebuary 02/2026 at 6:00 p.m.
In case of a second enrollment (or more), the evaluation of the subject is not contemplated with a synthesis test.
Bibliography
EXPRESSION AND BODY LANGUAGE/DANCE AND DRAMATIZATION
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Cañas, J. (1992). Didáctica de la expresión dramática. Barcelona: Octaedro
Castañer, M. (2000). Expresión corporal i danza. Barcelona: INDE
Darwin, Ch. (1984). La expresión de las emociones en los animales y en el hombre. Madrid: Alianza
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Eines, J., Mantovani, A. (2002). Didáctica de la dramatización. Barcelona: Gedisa
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Learreta, B. (2005). Los contenidos de expresión corporal. Barcelona: INDE
Lepecki, A. (2009). Agotar la danza. Performance i política del movimiento. Barcelona: Universidad de Alcalá i Mercat de les Flors
Mateu, M. (1992). 1000 ejercicios yjuegos aplicados a las actividades corporales de expresión. Barcelona: Paidotribo
Montesinos, D. (2004). La Expresión Corporal. Su enseñanza por el método natural evolutivo. Barcelona: INDE
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Tejerina, I. (1994). Dramatización y teatro infantil. Madrid: siglo XXI
Viciana, V., Arteaga, M. (1997). Las actividades coreográficas en la escuela. Barcelona: INDE
Software
The Moodle Classrooms of the UAB to perform group activities will be used.
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 90 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |