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ISMAT 4200

Motor Development and Adaptation

Sports Sciences
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    The Curricular Unit of Motor Development and Adaptation aims to empower students with specific and scientific knowledge applied in the areas of Physical Education, Youth Sports and Exercise and Welfare. Pertinence: understanding of internal and external factors that influence motor development, leading to an understanding and optimization of movement. Distinctive mark: providing a scientific background that allows to consider factors inherent to motor development as an epigenetic process.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    A - Conceptualization: development; growth; maturation; learning and motricity; B - Factors that influence the development process: prenatal care; perinatal and postnatal; C - Explanatory models and theories of motor development. Phases of motor development; D - Psychomotor development G - Assessment of motor development. E - Motor development and playful activity. Game theories. The evolution of the game in children; the importance of traditional games in the integral formation of the youth. F - The youth and sport. Sports activities: initiation and interaction levels children/parents/coaches. Towards a pedagogy of sport. The importance of the motor literacy process in young people's sports initiation. G - Motor learning. Motor skills learning theories and models. Behaviorist perspective versus cognitive perspective. Learning factors. Transfer and contradictory tendency of the gesture system.
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    1. Provide students with tools to work in the field of motor development. 2. Knowing how to elaborate and apply an observation protocol. 3. Know and apply some scales of motor development in an adjusted way. 4. Identify the different factors that influence the process of growth, learning and maturation. 5. Select the appropriate strategies for the psychomotor development profile of the children (body scheme; balance; laterality; rhythm; ...). 6. Know and apply knowledge with regard to learning theories and models. Identify and name the learning factors, transfer and contradictory trend of the gesture system trend. 7. Reflect on the importance of games in the integral formation of the child and youth. 8. Develop a critical attitude and adjusted intervention on the triad: young person/parents/coach in sports.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    Batalau, R. (2025). Atividade física em crianças e adolescentes. Editores José Guilherme e Carla Martins. In O jovem atleta – uma abordagem multidisciplinar (pp.153-180). Edições Universitárias Lusófona. Guilherme, J. (2023). Desenvolvimento e adaptação motora - manual universitário - 1o ano. Edições Universitárias nº7 - Universidade Lusófona. Guilherme, J. & Reys, A. (2025). Caracterização global da segunda infância e adolescência. Editores José Guilherme e Carla Martins. In O jovem atleta – uma abordagem multidisciplinar (pp.25-58). Edições Universitárias Lusófona. Payne, V.G. & Isaacs, L.D. (2020). Human motor development. A life approach. Tenth Edition. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    Plenary sessions; Video viewing; Resolution of worksheets; Panel discussion; Practical experience of specific situations and contexts of the matters under discussion; Hands-on motor skills sessions; Individual and group work on theoretical aspects that underlie practice and Seminars.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    6
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não