Rocuant Urzua, Adolfo
PhD student, admission 2021
Nationality: Chilean
Education: Graduate in Education and Professor of Physical Education, UCSH, Chile. Master in Education, Mention in Learning Assessment, PUC. Master in Management of Physical and Sports Activity, UNAB, Chile.
Introduction: Adolfo Rocuant is a Physical Education teacher and Master in Education. He is interested in the processes of evaluation of and for learning at the classroom level and on a large scale with a focus on the attitudinal dimension of students in the school stage towards Educational Justice. Between 2003 and 2018 he worked as a classroom teacher, in 2009 he obtained the Pedagogical Excellence Assignment (AEP) and from 2015 he participated as a member of the Teachers of Teachers Network (RMM).
About my thesis
Thesis: Attitude of students without disabilities towards the inclusion of students with disabilities within Physical Education in Chile.
Project description: Eto assess the type of associations of the factors (promotion programs, difference between women and men, competitiveness, age and previous contact) involved in shaping attitudes of students without disabilities towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in the school. context of physical education in Chile.
Director: Ernesto Trevino Villarreal
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Publications and presentations
Publications
- Rocuant, A., Valenzuela, A., Toro, S., Peña-Troncoso, S., and Celedón, S. (in press). Questionnaire of attitudes towards fair play and leadership of students of basic education in Physical Education. Journal of Sport and Health Research.
Presentations
- Presentation at the First Austral Congress of Education: Instrument for measuring the attitude towards the curricular axis of fair play and leadership in Physical Education and Health of basic education students, Universidad Austral de Chile, September 2 and 3, 2021. Virtual format.
