Folkloric dance and its contribution to the reduction of sedentary lifestyle in teaching staff

Abstract

The teaching staff is going through an occupational health problem due to the long working hours that they have little free time left to develop; One of the factors that affects the sedentary lifestyle of teachers, is the null practice of work recreation within the school institutions, since it originates from the ignorance of the benefits offered by recreation, it is precisely in this research that emphasizes the awareness of the benefits of work recreation in teaching staff, focused from the dance part within the working day in the face of this problem there is a large number of studies that explain the benefits of work recreation as a strategy to reduce sedentary lifestyle in teachers of the tax education system. For this reason, the article focuses its attention on evaluating a recreational program of folkloric dance as a means of reducing sedentary lifestyle aimed at high school teachers of the fiscal system. The project is based on different research designs starting from the documentary, field and quasi-experimental analysis, through the application of tests directed to the teachers and the sedentary lifestyle that allowed to collect significant amounts to determine the diagnosis; As a result of these investigative analyzes, the final conclusion was reached that responds to the stated objective, which is to reduce sedentary lifestyle in teachers. Therefore, it is affirmed that the Folk Dance Recreational Program has significant effects on the reduction of sedentary lifestyle in secondary education teachers of the fiscal system.