The practice of chess in exempt students from Physical Education. An approach from the Vigotsky postulates (Review)

Abstract

This article intends to reflect on the zone of proximal development as one of the postulates of Vigotsky's Sociohistorical-Cultural theory that in the pedagogical field leads to a substantial transformation in the way of conceiving the teaching-learning process and to work on the fundamental pedagogical categories for the organization and development of teaching programs; By conceiving learning not only as a process of individual achievement, but also as a social activity, as a process of construction and reconstruction by the subject who appropriates knowledge, skills, attitudes, affects, values ​​and forms of expression, this learning in the specific case of chess practice in medical science students exempted from Physical Education classes occurs under conditions of social interaction in a specific socio-historical environment, which typify the practice of this sport modality in students of the This study, which responds to the results of a research team, members of one of the doctoral training projects belonging to the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Bayamo, Granma.