Memorias de investigación
Book chapters:
Clumsyness, motor competence and physical education.
Year:2018

Research Areas
  • Humanities

Information
Abstract
One of the main objectives of physical education and sport (PES) pedagogy in schools is to develop motor competence in children. While many schoolchildren practice sports, there is a group of children that does not receive the educational opportunities to be competent. These children show low motor competence and poor motor coordination. International agencies have called this condition as developmental coordination disorders (DCD) and its definition in short is ?poor motor performance in daily activities that is not consistent with the child?s age and intelligence, and is not due to medical condition.? Physical education and sport teachers are the first interventionist with these children. They have the first opportunity of providing primary care to these children. In this chapter, motor coordination problems in school, its prevalence, how these children learn, how physical education and sport teachers can detect them, and why physical education and sport pedagogy must be concerned with this problem, will be analyzed.
International
Si
10.5772/intechopen.68354
Book Edition
Book Publishing
IntechOpen
ISBN
978-1-78923-554-8
Series
Book title
Advanced Learning and Teaching Environments
From page
257
To page
273
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Investigación Psicosocial en el Deporte