Play is one of the human condition, as it accompanies us throughout our lives. The developmental role of play is used in many areas, education and training being no exception. In this article, the ...role and importance of toys in physical education sessions for pupils in the specialised teaching service who are in physical education are examined. The research included 120 students from schools in Hajdúböszörmény and Hajdúdorog, who are part of the Hajdúböszörmény branch of the Hajdú-Bihar County Pedagogical Service and are classified as students in physical education. We were looking for answers to questions such as what sports or movement games they play in PE sessions, how much they like them and how motivated they are by playing them. The results of the research confirm that the positive personality of the physical education teacher, the colourful toolbox and the methods he uses, such as the use of movement games, motivate pupils to actively participate in physical education lessons. By exploiting the motivational role of games, both children's attitudes towards physical education and their activity in class can be shaped. According to the pupils who participated in the sessions, it was found that they felt the positive benefits of the PE sessions in terms of performance, fitness and resilience and self-confidence.
Study purpose. This study aims to investigate the effects of movement games as an effort to increase the level of physical fitness and mental health of students with disabilities during COVID-19.
...Materials and methods. This study adopted a mixed method. The participants involved in this study were students with disabilities who came from two special schools students with disabilities in Karawang Regency, Indonesia (n=40). Participants were divided into an experimental group who carried out a movement game program (n=20) and a control group (n=20) who followed routine learning without participating in any activities. After implementing the movement game program, 20 participants were interviewed about the experiences, advantages and disadvantages of the movement game program. Quantitative research instruments used muscular strength, muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory fitness tests. Meanwhile, the qualitative research instrument used in-depth interviews for 30 minutes. Analysis of quantitative data used IBM SPSS, and analysis of qualitative data used thematic analysis.
Results. The quantitative study results showed that there was a significant increase in the level of physical fitness and mental health in the experimental group (p<0.05), and no increase was found in the control group (p>0.05). In addition, the qualitative study results showed that the majority of participants acknowledged that the movement game program was a fun method of education and had a positive effectiveness.
Conclusions. After carrying out this research, we confirm that the movement game activity is an education method that has a great effect on the increase in the physical fitness level and mental health of students with disabilities during COVID-19.
Research purpose. The study was aimed at investigating the effect of the proposed technology using movement games on the physical and psychomotor fitness of young schoolchildren with intellectual ...disabilities.
Materials and Methods. Fourty children from an orphan asylum in Smila, Cherkasy region (Ukraine) participated in the study. All children were divided into two groups: control and experimental; all of them had been diagnosed with moderate-grade oligophrenia and were 2nd and 3rd graders (age 9–12 years). The control group consisted of 22 pupils, including 11 boys and 11 girls. The experimental group consisted of 18 pupils, including 9 boys and 9 girls. The following research methods were used to solve the problems set in the paper: analysis and generalization of information from special scientific literature, pedagogical research methods, method of comparison and similitude, psychoemotional state and psychomotor development research methods, methods of mathematical statistics.
Results. The study results set forth in the paper will allow stating the fact that lessons with the use of movement games have a positive effect on the physical and psychomotor fitness of young schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities, which ensures their social adaptation in the context of growth.
Conclusions. Increasing the time spent on playing games not only in classes but also in extracurricular activities had a positive effect that found expression in the improvement of the children’s health and psychoemotional condition, which is the main component of the behavior of a child with mental disabilities. It can be stated that, after using the proposed movement games, the indicators of the pupils’ psychomotor and mental condition, memory, perception of reality and attention improved in the positive dynamics of their physical fitness. It was found that the number of nervous breakdowns, depressive states and symptoms of stress decreased during the selected movement games.
Using of the movement games motion during physical education classes should be taken into account as they engage in activity as many children, and on the basis of their stay the contest. In the ...choice of movement games we took into account the objectives, means and material resources available to the school and the age of the pupils to whom they were addressed. The hypothesis in the spirit which runs research is that, if they use mainly in the physical education lesson at primary movement games, on objectives formative will get better development of driving skills, in particular speed, compared with the situation which are used mostly traditional the analytical exercises. Using the movement games as a method and means of developing driving skills, particularly the speed, led to a positive development indices of speed to all students enrolled in research, assessment test results clearly highlighting this.
Maintaining effort capacity is one of the goals pursued in adult physical education. Sedentary people have difficulty in sustaining an effort that is considered to be withing the usual intensity. ...They should receive training exercise because they have lost the physical ability through a bad conduct of life. In this research we started from the hypothesis that the use in the physical education lesson of motion games, which involves sustained efforts, will lead to a much faster increase of the students' effort capacity. Dynamic games will determine the students to participate with greater interest and pleasure in lessons, and this will result in improved effort due to their active involvement. The goal was to highlight that motion games can also be used with success in the case of young people. The attractiveness and dynamism that characterizes the games determines the students to be more active and more involved in practicing physical exercise. The experiment was conducted on a group of 18 students from the second year of study at Faculty of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, at „Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava. The control group was formed from 18 students in the second year, the same specialization in another study group. The experiment was conducted over a period of 4 months.
In this research I started from the premise that music combined with different movements of the body or segments brings beneficial effects to children in the physical, mental and cognitive plane. ...Close collaboration between psychic and physical which involves the development of musical movement games can bring substantial contributions to child psychomotricity components. I considered the use of musical movement games in the case of children aged 6-7 years (the independent variable) may lead to a much faster increase of balance values compared to children in the control group. The aim of this research was to emphasize that balance can develop early. In this sense, we have introduced in the physical education and sports lessons a series of movement games made on music, to engage the active participation of the children and to contribute to the development of all forms of balance (static, dynamic and equilibrium of objects). The experiment was carried out on 14 children from the Gura Putnei Secondary School, aged between 6 and 7 years old. The control group consisted of 16 children from Secondary School "Stefan cel Mare" Putna. Within these schools I have been working as a teacher of physical education and sports, so I have been able to closely follow the evolution of children in both groups.
Teachers are sometimes puzzled and frustrated by some children's difficulties and troubles as these children respond aggressively when feeling that peers crowd too close or seem 'threatening'. This ...article provides a variety of bodily games to help children become more aware of how their bodies and muscles work. The activities suggested are pleasurable and they also enhance children's interpersonal and behavioral self-control skills. Ideas are suggested so that teachers can use the activities specifically to boost and encourage children's creative imagination and, as well, increase children's feelings of being in charge of their own movements and bodily responses.
The present study is about design and development of eye tracker-based eye training games. The aim of these games is to help students with low vision to improve their vision capabilities. The games ...are played with user’s eye movements and the games response accordingly. This study consists of iterative and incremental development process of the eye movement games and single subject design research by using the final product with a participant. As a result, findings from single-subject design research and design principles of eye movement games for students with low vision are presented for assisting to enhance their vision abilities.
The present paper is part of wider research carried out during 2015 – 2016 with primary school students from a primary school in Galati, Romania, which studied the possibility of increasing the motor ...skill manifestation indices. Within this research we wished to present the role that movement games and relays could play in developing strength as motor skill and we used 6 movement games and 3 relays for this purpose. Movement games were used within physical education classes whose topic was the development of strength as motor skill. Relays were used at the beginning or at the end of the PE classes as a means of engaging the body during exercise. For assessment, we used three specific trials for testing strength as motor quality: crunches, back extension and standing long jump. The results recorded in the final testing for all the trials revealed significant progress as compared to the initial tests. The statistical processing of data was performed with the help of the SPSS 23.0 software. The positive results proved that the use of movement games and relays is efficient for the increase of strength motor skill manifestation indices with primary school students.
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