The objective of the sport, beyond competing in the search for winners and losers in a competitive society, and acquiring valid motor skills, must be to value human relations and educate citizens in a sporting context in which everyone feels they can learn, enjoy and train as people, regardless of their competitive level, their origin or their socioeconomic situation.
For this reason, including cooperative learning as a pedagogical model in the planning of volleyball sessions must enable the achievement of the performance objectives and the social and relational skills that are necessary for the idiosyncrasy of a sports team and club that could be transferred to daily life.
In this training course, we will be entering into the main characteristics of cooperative learning which make it possible to understand how this learning tool is more important and complex than working as a team work. At the same time, some strategies will be put forward to be implemented within the team to improve the social and relational skills of athletes.
Author: Dr. Guillem Trabal Tañá