Development of Movement Coordination in Children: Applications in the Field of Ergonomics, Health Sciences and Sport - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415247373 ISBN 13: 9780415247375

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Co-ordination of movement plays a key role in human development and is an important area in sport and health sciences. This book looks in detail at how children develop basic skills, such as walking and reaching for objects, and more complex skills such as throwing and catching a ball accurately or riding a bicycle.

Development of Movement Co-ordination in Children is informed by five major theoretical perspectives and are explained in an introductory chapter:

* neural maturation
* information processing
* direct perception
* dynamic systems
* constraint theory.

The international contributions are brought together under the headings of ergonomics, health sciences and sport. Focusing on practical applications, individual chapters cover many different aspects of movement behaviour and development, ranging from children's over-estimation of their physical abilities and the links to injury proneness, to the co-ordination of kicking techniques. Both normal and abnormal development is considered.

This text will be of considerable interest to students, teachers and professionals in the fields of sport science, kinesiology, physical education, ergonomics and developmental psychology.

About this title

About the Author

John van der Kamp, Geert Savelsbergh, Keith Davids, Simon J. Bennett

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415247373
• ISBN 13: 9780415247375
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Savelsbergh Geert