Motor Development and Learning
amineh eslamizad; ZAHRA Entezari khorasani
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Background: Identifying the theoretical frameworks and components of effective interventions in socio-economically disadvantaged communities in order to improve their performance in various aspects of development, can be effective. Essentially, the TGFU approach focuses on the idea of progressing from ...
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Background: Identifying the theoretical frameworks and components of effective interventions in socio-economically disadvantaged communities in order to improve their performance in various aspects of development, can be effective. Essentially, the TGFU approach focuses on the idea of progressing from tactics to skills, not tactics or skills It is commonly assumed that students in a TGFU lesson merely play games with guidance from the teacher, but this is not the caseThe purpose of this research was to investigate The effect of selective training based on a non-linear training approach (the teaching-based on game for understanding) on fundamental motor skills and executive functions of economically disadvantaged children
Methods: The current research was semi-experimental and applied in terms of purpose with a pre-test-post-test design. For this purpose, 30 subjects were randomly divided into two groups of non-linear and linear approach and were trained for eight weeks. Before and after eight weeks, the scores of the gross motor development test-2 and the executive functions questionnaire were collected.
Results: The results of this research showed that a course of selected motor exercises based on a non-linear approach had a greater effect on the subscales of basic motor skills and executive functions of economically deprived children than the linear approach.
Conclusion: According to the perspective of dynamic systems, the factors affecting motor development and executive functions include the characteristics of the motor task in exchange with biological and hereditary factors and the environment.
Zahra Fathirezaie; Elham Khodadadeh; Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani
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Introduction: Research evidence indicates that the environment is an important factor in improving children's development. However, little research has been done in the rural children population regarding the effect of motor affordances on cognitive abilities. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate ...
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Introduction: Research evidence indicates that the environment is an important factor in improving children's development. However, little research has been done in the rural children population regarding the effect of motor affordances on cognitive abilities. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the developmental environment affordances of rural children and their executive functions enhancement.Methods: The present research was an ex-post facto correlational study, which was conducted as field research with applied research purposes. The statistical population of this study was 8 to 10-year-old primary school children (Mean age = 9.10) of East Azerbaijan province from which 93 children were selected through random cluster sampling method as the study samples to participate in the study. To measure the motor development affordances in the home environment, the AGMDQ-1, and to measure the executive functions, BRIEF test were used.Results: Based on the results of the multiple linear regression test, a positive significant relationship was observed between motor affordances and inhibition (P=0.042) and between motor affordances and initiation (P=0.008) in 8 to 10-year-old children. Also based on the results, no significant relationship was observed between motor development affordances including stimulants, home environment and active toys, and other components of executive functions (P>0.05).Conclusion: Based on the results of the present research, children's living environment is an important factor in predicting the components of their executive functions. Accordingly, it is suggested that to improve executive functions during childhood, children should be in richer environments (in terms of the presence of affordances such as active toys).
