Qualidade dos contextos educativos de expressão motora no pré-escolar

• Autor(a) principal: Sara de Carvalho Antunes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/137653
• topic: Ciências sociais; Social sciences

The main goal of this study was to characterize the environment and pedagogy in the area of motor expression in a kindergarten context. It also had the following specific objectives: a) to understand who are the people who teach the area of motor expression, in which spaces and the frequency and duration of the sessions; b) survey existing equipment, materials and spaces and possible needs; c) assess the degree of knowledge of these professionals in relation to the expected motor development in this age group (in normative terms) and the consequent adequacy of activities to it; d) understand which movements are being worked on, at the level of global motricity, and what is the degree of involvement in the activities on the part of the professionals; e) survey the type of vocabulary and communication used by the people involved and its direct association with motor expression; and f) to understand if there is a use of varied activities and adjusted to the capacity of each child, as well as the nature of the information provided to the family. A total of 114 kindergarten teachers from various parts of the country participated in the study; with an average age of 49.4 years, and with an average of 25.7 years of experience. An online questionnaire was developed with reference to the Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS; Archer & Siraj, 2017), focusing on the domain of learning physical development. In terms of the main results, it was verified that it are the educators who teach the area of motor expression, that there is a lack of spaces for this purpose and the scarce availability of diversified materials. Regarding the frequency and duration of motor expression sessions, an average of one day a week is dedicated to this activity, lasting between 30 and 45 minutes. Professionals who work with children in kindergartens claim to be involved with them in activities. Furthermore, there is a gap with regard to the inclusion of other curricular areas when planning motor expression activities.