University Service-Learning in school Physical Education: A Systematic Review

Abstract

This article is linked to a project supported by the sustainability management of the University of the Basque Country aimed at the Final Degree Projects, which through the University Service-Learning methodology wish to have an impact on the improvement of social inclusion. The aim of this article is to analyze the bibliography related to University Service-Learning in the field of School Physical Education, to find out if there is any experience linked to Final Degree Projects and, if not, to find out what topics have been published linked to Primary Education, as well as who is working in this line. A systematic review of articles and doctoral theses published in a period established between January 2010 and December 2020 in the Scopus, Teseo and Web of Science databases was carried out. To delimit the corpus, the criteria used were that service learning appeared in the texts together with physical activity, in second place, with Primary Education and finally together with the terms motor play, motor behavior or corporal expression, which led to reduce the corpus to 34 documents. The results showed that there were no publications linked to Final Degree Projects and that the physical activity proposals aimed at Primary Education were carried out by students of the degrees of Education and Physical Activity Sciences. A large number of authors and their publications were linked to the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón. The service proposals were mostly addressed to populations with functional or cultural diversity.