Physical Children, Active Teaching

* How can children achieve their entitlement to gain physical literacy and to become physically educated? * How can parents and teachers ensure that children's movement development and movement education are of the highest quality? * What are the most appropriate contexts for facilitating children's physicality? The book describes children's physical and movement development and analyses progression in motor skills from elementary to mature stages, from infancy through to the end of the primary school years. Language development stemming from motor development and the contribution of language as a tool in the achievement of movement competence is discussed, as is the contribution of movement to children's play and creative activity. The author addresses children's entitlement to become physically educated, both through the raising of standards in the Physical Education curriculum and through the heightening of expectations in children's knowledge, understanding, participation and performance in physical activity and the development of a healthy and active lifestyle.

ISBN 0335205720   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780335205721 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 196 Publisher Open University Press   Published in Milton Keynes Imprint Open University Press   Series editor Moyles, Janet R. Format Paperback   Series title Enriching the Primary Curriculum - Child, Teacher, Context S. Publication date 01 Jun 2001   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress 00050154   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 372.86044   Spine width (mm) 8 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 162

		List of figures and tables
		Series editor's preface
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction		1
1		Physical and motor development		4
2		Play		27
3		Language, creativity and physical literacy		48
4		Movement observation and assessment		65
5		Becoming physically educated		93
6		Physical literacy, active learning and active teaching		119
		Conclusion		130
		Bibliography		132
		Index		139

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