This line of research aims to analyse the actions, programmes and strategies used to promote physical activity in the Preschool Education curriculum. In general, we analyse the correlates and determinants of physical activity in and out of school that can have a positive impact on the integral development of children. In particular, physical activity behaviour during children's motor skills sessions is analysed by means of qualitative observational systems as well as quantitative systems for measuring physical activity.

This line of research aims to describe and understand the construction of the concept of the body in curricular and extracurricular materials used in the early childhood education curriculum. For this purpose, different methodological tools are included to study the construction of the concept of the body such as content analysis and critical discourse analysis of both visual representations and written text. Based on the results of this line of research, it is intended that teachers in practice and in training learn to critically assess the curricular materials they use in their classrooms, as well as to propose alternative curricular materials that promote an appropriate image of children.

This line of research aims to analyse the different teaching methods used in the field of children's motor skills and music that play a leading role in the development of personal autonomy, including musical methods based on expression and body movement as the main form of work. To this end, we use different observational systems used both in psychomotor skills classrooms and in the traditional classroom, which allow us to analyse the didactic knowledge of the content, the role of the teachers and the impact of the space, the curricular materials, the musical elements and the alternative tools used in the early childhood education curriculum.

The aim of this line of research is to analyse the impact of musicalised movement and corporal expression practices on pupils with functional diversity in Early Childhood Education. This analysis will allow university lecturers to develop methodological proposals with the appropriate tools to improve the motor skills of these pupils, thus favouring the training of future Early Childhood Education lecturers by enabling them to start researching and verifying the usefulness of the proposed practices in the practical didactic approaches of the university classroom. At the same time, the aim is to develop rehabilitation programmes for gross and fine motor problems in infant education pupils, in which traditional physiotherapy proposals are combined with appropriate musical elements, so as to enhance the expected results and establish new inter- and multidisciplinary lines of action for motor functional diversity.

The aim of this line of research is, on the one hand, to analyse the methodological proposals and musical tools used in the university classroom to favour the comprehensive development of children in Preschool Education. On the other hand, to develop innovative proposals based on musical movement so that future Preschool Education teachers who do not specialise in music can apply the multiple possibilities for cognitive, socio-affective, motor and verbal development offered by the application of musical movement activities during this educational stage.