Justification for Physical Education at the Preschool Level

Authors

  • Pedro Gil-Madrona Sixto Gómez-Víllora, Onofre R. Contreras-Jordán, Isabel Gómez-Barreto Author

Keywords:

Physical education, corporal expression, education and childcare, educational play, motor development (Source, Unesco Thesaurus).

Abstract

The gradual discovery of one's body as a source of sensations and the exploration of possibilities for corporal action and functions are obligatory experiences on which to build children's thinking. By the same token, the emotional relationships established in situations that involve motor activity, play in particular, are fundamental to emotional growth. Intervention based on motor functions during childhood must respond to these questions and others, such as a sedentary lifestyle and obesity among children.

In this respect, the article is an attempt to justify the necessary and systematic presence of motor functions, through physical education, and outlines a preschool project for practical intervention that is recreational, happy, enjoyable, attractive and enchanting for children. Concepts and assumptions on psychomotor development are considered, as are motor contents in preschool education, corporal expression, motor play and a proposal on method and programming motor functions in this stage of education.

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Author Biography

Pedro Gil-Madrona Sixto Gómez-Víllora, Onofre R. Contreras-Jordán, Isabel Gómez-Barreto

Pedro Gil-Madrona, Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, España. pedro.gil@uclm.es

Sixto Gómez-Víllora, Doctor en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, España. sixto.gonzalez@uclm.es

Onofre R. Contreras-Jordán, Doctor en derecho, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, España. cjordan@uclm.es

Isabel Gómez-Barreto, Licenciada en Psicopedagogía, Universidad José Antonio Páez, Valencia, Venezuela. isago@cantv.net

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Sixto Gómez-Víllora, Onofre R. Contreras-Jordán, Isabel Gómez-Barreto, P. G.-M. (2009). Justification for Physical Education at the Preschool Level. Educación Y Educadores, 11(2). Retrieved from https://educacionyeducadores.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/eye/article/view/737

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2008)

Section

Educational theory

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