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Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, 2012

1 online zdroj

ISBN 978-0-7360-7393-6 (vázáno)

ISBN 9781492595151 (online)

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Advanced Analysis of Motor Development explores how research is conducted in testing major issues and questions in motor development. It also looks at the evolution of research in the field, its current status, and possible future directions. This text is one of the few to examine motor development models and theories analytically while providing a context for advanced students in motor development so they can understand current and classic research in the field. Traditionally, graduate study in motor development has been approached through a compilation of readings from various sources. This text meets the need for in-depth study in a more cohesive manner by presenting parallels and highlighting relationships among research studies that independent readings might not provide. In addition, Advanced Analysis of Motor Development builds a foundation in the theories and approaches in the field and demonstrates how they drive contemporary research in motor development. A valuable text for graduate students beginning their own research projects or making the transition from student to researcher, this text focuses on examining and interpreting research in the field. Respected researchers Haywood, Roberton, and Getchell explain the history and evolution of the field and articulate key research issues. As they examine each of the main models and theories that have influenced the field, they share how motor development research can be applied to the fields of physical education, special education, physical therapy, and rehabilitation sciences. With its emphasis on critical inquiry, Advanced Analysis of Motor Development will help students examine important topics and questions in the field in a more sophisticated manner. They will learn to analyze research methods and results as they deepen their understanding of developmental phenomena. (...).

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Part I. What Is Motor Development? Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Descriptive Perspectives ; Definition of Motor Development Study ; History of Motor Development in the United States ; Concept of Development ; Three Early Pioneers of Motor Development ; Stage Versus Age ; Physical Educators and Kinesiologists in the Field ; Legacies From the Descriptive Perspectives ; Specific Contributions of the Descriptive Perspectives ; Role of Description Within Motor Development Research -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on Perception and Action ; Indirect Perspective ; Direct Perspective ; A Resolution? ; Summary -- Chapter 3. Systems Perspective ; Model of Constraints ; Dynamic Systems ; Applying the Dynamic Systems Model to a Motor Development Problem ; Summary -- Chapter 4. Motor Development Research Approaches ; Research Designs ; Development Simulation ; Dependent Variables ; Anthropometric Measures ; Moving the Field Forward: Strong Inference Research ; Moving the Field Forward: Wohlwill’s Developmental Research Schema ; Research Methods in Practice: Esther Thelen and Reflex Stepping -- Part II. What Perspectives Do Researchers Use to Study Motor Development? Contemporary Research -- Chapter 5. Development of Postural Control ; Theoretical Perspectives ; Early Development ; Rising to Stand ; Postural Control in Older Adulthood ; Summary -- Chapter 6. Development of Foot Locomotion ; Intertask Developmental Sequence ; Intratask Developmental Sequences ; Further Study -- Chapter 7. Development of Ballistic Skills ; Intertask Developmental Sequence ; Intratask Developmental Sequences ; Developmental Research -- Chapter 8. Development of Manipulative Skills ; Reaching and Grasping ; Interception Skills ; Summary --

Part III. How Do Practitioners Adopt a Developmental Perspective? Applying Research -- Chapter 9. Atypical Motor Development ; Identifying Atypical Development by Understanding Typical Development ; Motor Development That Is Not Average ; Combining Theory and Practice ; Summary -- Chapter 10. Advances in Interventions ; Interventions in Typically Developing Populations ; Interventions for Atypical Populations ; Interventions for Children With Disabilities ; Summary