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PSYCHOMOTRICTY, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
1 Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra//Universidade de Aveiro (PORTUGAL)
2 Universidade de Aveiro (PORTUGAL)
3 Universidade de Coimbra (PORTUGAL)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN11 Proceedings
Publication year: 2011
Pages: 4716-4722
ISBN: 978-84-615-0441-1
ISSN: 2340-1117
Conference name: 3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 4-6 July, 2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
Bullying, aggressiveness, emotional barriers, anxiety, fear, insecurity, anger, happiness, surprise and sadness live together with us daily, from infancy to adulthood.
The aim of this paper is to study psychomotricity in kindergarten and its impact in health, quality of life and we want to analyze some individual, familiar and surrounding risk and protection factors and how we can strengthen psychomotricity and resilience in these kids , that faces personal and social adverse factors, that are able to reduce or destroy the possibilities of a positive answer from the child in face of diary adversities and interferes in self-esteem and corporal image , and can result in scholar failure and in a bad sociability.
A Project with poor Brazilian kids is presented, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, following programs were used: Strong Start – to reinforce resilience and also psychomotors activities , easily reproducible, based on Lambert (1972), Vayer (2006), Oliveira (2008), Almeida(2008), standardized to this population.
In face of the results we will suggest changes at learning-teaching process and also at its evaluations and educational interventions to get health, well-being and success at school.
Keywords:
Resilience, psychomotricity, learning and teaching, emotional barriers.