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Ross, Ann; Butterfield, Stephen A. – Research in Rural Education, 1989
Finds that, for 120 boys and girls in a rural Maine elementary school, a 36-week physical education program incorporating dance and movement education produced significant improvement on a wide variety of fundamental motor, physical fitness, and balance skills. Contains 17 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Motor Development
Dillon, Emily F.; Kanne, Stephen; Landa, Rebecca J.; Annett, Robert; Bernier, Raphael; Bradley, Catherine; Carpenter, Laura; Kim, So Hyun; Parish-Morris, Julia; Schultz, Robert; Wodka, Ericka L.; Wodka, Ericka L.; Wodka, Ericka L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Discernment of possible sex-based variations in presentations of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms is limited by smaller female samples with ASD and confounds with ASD ascertainment. A large national cohort of individuals with autism, SPARK, allowed parent report data to be leveraged to examine whether intrinsic child characteristics and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Individual Characteristics, Children
Newell, Karl M.; Irwin, Gareth – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2022
This paper examines the influence of task and skill level constraints on the generality of proximal-distal control for within-limb movement coordination. Analysis and synthesis of the experimental findings leads to the proposition that proximal-distal is one of several within-limb patterns of coordination, including: the reverse distal-proximal…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Human Body
Seefeldt, Vern; Haubenstricker, John; Branta, Crystal F.; Pfeiffer, Karin A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2021
The Michigan State University (MSU) Motor Performance Study (MPS) was initiated in 1967 and was known across the United States for its unique blend of teaching, service, and research. Dr. Vern Seefeldt began the study as a means to begin research with children on-campus. The instructional portion of the program ended in 1999; data collection…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Physical Development, Maturity (Individuals)
Adé, David; Seifert, Ludovic; McGann, Marek; Davids, Keith – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022
Introduction: Recently Baggs and Chemero (2018. "Radical Embodiment in Two Directions." "Synthese," 1-16. doi:10.1007/s11229-018-02020-9) advocated for the possible 'productive synthesis' between the enactive and the ecological approaches in order to understand and to explain how an agent behaves and interacts with the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Phenomenology
Escalié, Guillaume; Legrain, Pascal; Lafont, Lucile – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022
Purpose: This article is centered on the Mixed Methods Research (MMR) used by the "Sports Life" research team to analyze the conditions under which social interactions are developed in the physical education (PE) setting and PE teacher training context. Firstly, we focus on the value of combining various types of quantitative data with…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Interaction, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Ritchey, Margaret – ZERO TO THREE, 2021
This article discusses how increasing diversity within a community requires health care professionals to reassess the developmental assessment tools being used, or at the least, what implications one can derive from resultant identification of delays. The author describes a culture clash between her training and developmental expectations as a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Physical Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Immigrants
Finkelstein, Joan – Journal of Dance Education, 2022
America's current sociocultural moment requires that we reexamine, reevaluate, and reimagine our dance education policy documents, curriculum, and classroom practice. This position paper raises questions about the assumptions underpinning our dance education archival discourse and infusing the language we use to articulate it. A return to…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Disadvantaged
Komatsu, Kayoko – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
In both England and Japan, art education was viewed as having nothing to do with self-expression, but was considered to be an efficient means for industrial development. In England, it was designed to train the eyes and hands of artisans. The art critic Ruskin has often been referred to in the context of the transition to self-expression in the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Art
Giblin, Susan; Collins, David; MacNamara, Aine; Kiely, John – Quest, 2014
There is substantial scientific research suggesting the physical and psychological health benefits of a physically active lifestyle. Consequently, governments worldwide prioritize policies, finances, and resources in healthcare, education, and sports sectors to increase mass participation in physical activity. However, practices in physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Primary Education, Motor Development
Hammond, Ruth Anne – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
A pioneer in the infant/family field in the United States, Magda Gerber was the founding director of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), known for its unique two-generation approach to the care and education of young children. This paper offers a summary of Gerber's teachings from the late twentieth century with citations pointing to their…
Descriptors: Standards, Infants, Child Caregivers, Child Care
Gordon, Andrew M. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2011
Impaired hand function is among the most functionally disabling symptoms of unilateral cerebral palsy. Evidence-based treatment approaches are generally lacking. However, recent approaches providing intensive upper extremity training appear promising. In this review, we first describe two such approaches, constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT)…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Children, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
Jokic, Claire Sangster; Whitebread, David – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) experience difficulty coping with everyday demands due to difficulties in performing motor tasks. Recently, a cognitive learning paradigm has been applied to studying the nature of the problems experienced by children with DCD, which assumes that these children have fewer cognitive and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Psychomotor Skills, Role, Developmental Delays
Whalen, Cara N.; Case-Smith, Jane – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2012
Purpose: This systematic review examined the efficacy of hippotherapy or therapeutic horseback riding (THR) on motor outcomes in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Methods: Databases were searched for clinical trials of hippotherapy or THR for children with CP. Results: Nine articles were included in this review. Although the current level of…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Cerebral Palsy, Motor Development, Horses
de Campos, Ana Carolina; Francisco, Kelly Regina; Savelsbergh, Geert J. P.; Rocha, Nelci Adriana Cicuto Ferreira – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Reaching and grasping skills have been described to emerge from a dynamic interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the interaction between such an intrinsic factor, Down syndrome, and extrinsic factors, such as different object properties. Seven infants with Down syndrome and seven…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Infants, Interaction, Psychomotor Skills