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Prepared by:
Noralie B. Morales
What is Movement
Education?
A strand of teaching or
education which aims to
educate individuals to
develop their motor skills
through physical movement.
What is Movement
Education?
It aims to help individuals
improve their motor skills.
Francois Delsarte
Francois Delsarte
Frenchman
Developed what he
termed applied
aesthetics & focused his
work in the arts.
Contributed critical ideas
of connections among
the mind, body, and
spirit.
Francois Delsarte
Also saw movement as a
union of time, space, and
motion.
Believed that expressive
movement should relate to
the emotion that inspired
that movement.
Francois Delsarte
Introduced the idea of
parallelism in movement
the simultaneous motion of
two body parts in the same
direction and in succession.
Francois Delsarte
9 Laws of Motion:
Altitude
Force
Motion
Sequence
Direction
Form
Velocity
Reaction
Extension
Liselott Diem
Liselott Diem
She and her husband
founded an internationally
known college in Germany,
Deutsche Sporthochschule
Kln,
Kln to train teachers in
sport and physical
education.
Liselott Diem
The colllege taught a
natural approach to
teaching children to move
effectively in all kinds of
situations.
situations
Liselott Diem
The teachers role was to
provide an environment that
would encourage children to
explore movement freely in
their own way.
Liselott Diem
Teachers equipment:
- Balls
- Ropes
- Benches
- Wands
- Boxes
* Allow children to develop
a wide variety of
movement responses
individually, with partners,
or within small groups.
Liselott Diem
Teachers were encouraged to
challenge children by asking
questions such as
Who can do this? and
How can this be done
differently?
Development of a Curricular
Approach: 1960s, 1970s, and
1980s
The intent of those working
at this time was to provide a
framework that teachers
could use to apply these
movement concepts broadly
in the 3 learning domains.
Development of a Curricular
Approach: 1960s, 1970s, and
1980s
Growth of movement
education; brought to the
forefront of elementary
physical education.
Fitness Overshadows
Movement Education
The fitness boom of the
1970s resulted in a base of
research that contributed a
solid scientific basis to the
study of movement.
Fitness Overshadows
Movement Education
As other curriculum models
were introduced that were
easier to understand and
appealed to the fitness and
activity focus of the time,
movement education faded
from popularity.
The Revival of
Movement Education
In the late 1990s and early
2000s, the development of
national content standards
for physical education
brought back the essence of
movement education.
The Revival of
Movement Education
Emphasizing that children
should know basic
movement concepts and be
able to perform basic
movement patterns.
Movement is the
cornerstone of physical
education.