Perceptual-motor Behavior and Educational Processes

Perceptual-motor Behavior and Educational Processes
Author: Bryant J. Cratty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1969
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

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Foreword / Leon J. Whitsell -- Preface -- Perceptual-Motor Behavior and Education -- Movement and the Human Personality -- Movement and the Intellect -- A Three-level Theory of Perceptual-Motor Behavior -- Some Social Dimensions of Physical Activity: Recent Trends in the Literature -- The Complexity of People -- The Independence and Interdependence of Visual Perception and Movement in Infants and Children -- Research Guidelines -- Research in Human Movement -- New Perspectives Upon Man in Action -- Movement Activities in General Education -- The Use and Misuse of Movement in Education -- Ego Growth and Movement Efficiency -- The Gender Identification of Children -- Personality in Movement -- Why Johnny Can't Right ... Write ... -- Special Education -- General Considerations -- Kinesiology and Special Education -- On the Threshold -- We Learn of Vision from the Sightless, and the Retarded Teach us About Cognition -- Blind Children and Youth -- The Development of Perceptual-Motor Abilities in Blind Children and Youth -- Mobility Research at UCLA -- A Summary and Implications of the Findings -- The Educability of Dynamic Spatial Orientations in Blind Children -- The Clumsy Child Syndrome -- Principles of Perceptual-Motor Training for Children with Minimal Neurology Handicaps -- Hyperactivity and Education for Purposeful Behavior -- The Mentally Retarded -- The Role of Motor Activities in Programs for Mentally Retarded Children -- Some Perceptual-Motor Characteristics of Children and Youth with Downs Syndrome -- The Orthopedically Handicapped -- The Use of Perceptual-Motor Activities for Orthopedically Handicapped Children -- Screening Test for Evaluating the Perceptual-Motor Attributes of Neurologically Handicapped and Retarded Children -- A Mobility Orientation Test for the Blind.

Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development

Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development
Author: Klaus Libertus
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Motor ability in children
ISBN: 2889451593

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Motor skills are a vital part of healthy development and are featured prominently both in physical examinations and in parents’ baby diaries. It has been known for a long time that motor development is critical for children’s understanding of the physical and social world. Learning occurs through dynamic interactions and exchanges with the physical and the social world, and consequently movements of eyes and head, arms and legs, and the entire body are a critical during learning. At birth, we start with relatively poorly developed motor skills but soon gain eye and head control, learn to reach, grasp, sit, and eventually to crawl and walk on our own. The opportunities arising from each of these motor milestones are profound and open new and exciting possibilities for exploration and interactions, and learning. Consequently, several theoretical accounts of child development suggest that growth in cognitive, social, and perceptual domains are influences by infants’ own motor experiences. Recently, empirical studies have started to unravel the direct impact that motor skills may have other domains of development. This volume is part of this renewed interest and includes reviews of previous findings and recent empirical evidence for associations between the motor domain and other domains from leading researchers in the field of child development. We hope that these articles will stimulate further research on this interesting question.