Professional paper
Differences in attitudes kindergarten educators and parents about the game and physical activity of children from 0 to 4 years
Ivica Iveković
orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-6493
; Virovitica, Croatia
Abstract
During the pre-school age attitudes of parents and educators in kindergarten will have the biggest impact on a child’s attitudes towards certain activities. Building positive attitudes towards physical activity at an early age is especially important for children to maintain healthy habits in adolescence. The study was aimed at determining the attitudes of parents (N = 336) and educators (N = 61) for the game and the physical activity of children early and preschool age, and the focus is placed on their comparison to determine whether there are some differences between these groups of respondents and the that attitude is a significant difference. The results showed that the attitudes of parents and educators in kindergarten differ significantly with respect to the child’s play in different weather conditions and generally by different physical activities. Educators are less likely to encourage child to do risky things from their parents, but they have more confidence in the child’s physical and motor skills than to have parents and are in relation to the parents aware that the implementation of different activities on different surfaces has a positive effect on the development of skills, ie. coordination in children early and preschool age.
Keywords
children early and preschool age; physical activity; play; attitudes
Hrčak ID:
187036
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2017.
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