Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2021.1974306
Teaching strategies for promoting motor creativity and motor skill proficiency in early childhood
Miha Marinšek
orcid.org/0000-0002-2018-0059
Nina Lukman
Abstract
Existing research provides ambiguous evidence for associations
between motor competency and motor creativity. Therefore, this
study examined the association between motor skill proficiency
and motor creativity. The Test of Gross Motor Development
(second edition) and Bertsch’s motor creativity test were used to
assess motor skill proficiency and motor creativity among 39 children aged five to six. Results revealed that motor proficiency and
motor creativity are not interrelated traits. Therefore, it is necessary to use different teaching strategies to promote these traits.
Teaching with direct instructions and reproduction of demonstrated movement is probably the most appropriate to acquaint
children with motor skills. Learning through play with less explicit
teaching instructions and emphasis on motivating children to find
novel and original solutions to the motor tasks is probably more
suitable for facilitating motor creativity.
Keywords
physical education; didactics; motor behaviour
Hrčak ID:
302468
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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