Sports Education: Techniques and Child Development

Form-Focused Techniques vs. Game-Focused Learning

Form-Focused Techniques (Imposed Solutions)

Focus on the Game Form (Trial and Error)

Focusing on Directed Games (Directed Search)

Analytical techniques for the formal game

Exclusive use of formal game

The game for particular situations

Game decomposed into technical elements

Game untied or broken

Game decomposed into functional units of increasing complexity

Ranking techniques

To meet global technical situations

The principles governing the learning game

Game Actions mechanized: uncreative, stereotyped behaviors

Creative play as the basis of individualism. Tactical anarchy

Techniques based on tactics. Oriented and caused

Comprehension problems

Motor renunciation, varied tactics but with gaps and poor coordination of collective action

Tactical Intelligence: correct interpretation and application of the principles of the game, viability of the technique and creativity in game actions

Critiques of Traditional Sports Education

Traditional education is criticized by sports for its:

  • Analytic character
  • Directive approach
  • Disappointment
  • Delay in completion
  • Causing boredom
  • Learning focused on the achievement of others to succeed

Child-Centered Sports Education

Possible teaching of sports in connection with the child’s world:

  • Promoting leisure
  • Favoring contact with global reality
  • Awakening the imagination
  • Focusing on progress and mastery of skills
  • Losing by concerns about strict technical correction
  • Building a hobby through sport

Intuitive vs. Synthetic Vision in Teaching

Intuitive Vision:

Idea of the child and its action game: Unaware that accumulates knowledge, going from the particular to the general. Their biomechanical movements parameters are analyzed from the sport. Analysis: Decomposition of a set of techniques. Subordination to the item and logical classification of techniques.

Idea of teaching or intuitive act: Fill the empty box, decomposition in phases. Add the link stage and movement techniques to get the total.

Synthetic Vision:

The child is a player to adapt to team play. We take qualities. Must assume the general aspects of the game and their moves are part of the tax system gear to the game.

  • Prefer collective situations.
  • Positioning and variable geometric system structure.
  • Movement of ball and players.
  • Analysis of qualities.
  • Development of a system that allows integration.
  • Division of duties.
  • Automation training and coordination of individual actions together.

The child has previous schemes. Rearrange knowledge from the general to the particular. The movement is a complex act.

  • Determination of constants between elements of discipline.
  • Development of structure.
  • Determine the simplest form and reorganize based motor aspect of this form.

Phases of Development in Sports

Phases

Communication in Action

Structuring

Relationship with the Ball

Anarchism Game

  • Focus on ball
  • Subfunctions
  • Problems understanding

Abuse of the word

Agglutination around ball

High use of central vision

Decentralization

  • Function depends not only on ball position

Prevalence of speech

Occupation of space in terms of gameplay elements

From central to peripheral vision

Structure

  • Consciousness in the coordination of functions

Verbal communication and gestures

Sound-space Occupancy

From the visual to the proprioceptive control

Development

  • Actions in the strategy team

Superiority of motor communication

  • Versatile functional
  • Coordinating actions

Proprioceptive capabilities Optimization