Home > Journals > IJARE > Vol. 10 > No. 3 (July 2018)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25035/ijare.10.03.01
Disciplines
Early Childhood Education | Health and Physical Education | Leisure Studies | Public Health Education and Promotion | Sports Sciences | Sports Studies
Abstract
An increasing interest in the renewal of traditional recreational content and the use of the aquatic environments as educational resources is supported by very few empirical, evidence-based studies that link the two. This quasi-experimental study analyzed the role of stories in influencing perceived motor competence and real motor skills in seventy-eight children ages between 4 and 5 years through the administration of two questionnaires on aquatic motor ability and aquatic motor competence. Differences were found in aquatic motor competence (p < .01) and aquatic motor ability (p < .05) for the experimental group, where higher means values were obtained after the intervention. We present this methodological proposal as a useful educational tool for early childhood stimulation with achievements that go beyond motor progress itself.
Recommended Citation
Moreno Murcia, Juan Antonio; Huescar Hernandez, Elisa; and Richart Parra, Jose Antonio
(2017)
"Acquisition of Aquatic Motor Skills Through Children’s Motor Stories,"
International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education: Vol. 10:
No.
3, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25035/ijare.10.03.01
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ijare/vol10/iss3/1
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