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17571
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
5
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| Workload |
TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Sports Sciences
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Entry requirements |
Not required.
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Learning outcomes |
The main objective of this Course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the issues at the level of growth, maturation, and motor development, targeted especially for children and adolescents.
• Demonstrate knowledge and ability to understand the movement and human behavior throughout life, in different stages of development.
• Show ability to understand the issues on the growth and maturation in the infant-juvenile population.
• Demostrate knowledge about the development of motor skills in the different stages of infant-juvenile population.
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Syllabus |
Module 1. Introduction to Motor Development
1. Fundamental Concepts of Motor Development
2. Theories of Motor Development
3. Principles of the Movement and Stability
Modulo 2. Growth, Maturation and Development
1. Growth and maturation in pre-and postnatal development
2. Developments of body systems (skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine adipose)
Module 3. Development of Motor Skills
1. Capacity for locomotion
2. Movement Ballistic
3. Movement Manipulation
Module 4. Development perceptive-motor
1. Sensory perception
2. Perception and action in motor development
Module 5. Functional Constraints in Motor Development
1. Social and cultural
2. Psychosocial
3. Exercise and structural constraints
Module 6. Athlete's development over time
1. Prospects and operationalization analysis
2. Operating Examples
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Main Bibliography |
Balyi, I & Williams, C (2009) COACHING THE YOUNG DEVELOPING PERFORMER. Tracking Physical Growth and development to inform Coaching Programmes. The National Coaching Foundation, UK.
Bar-Or, O. & Rowland, T. ( 2004) Pediatric Exercise Medicine- From Physiologic Principles to Health Care Application.Champaign: Human Kinetics.
Haywood KM &Getchell, N. (2009). Lifelong motor development. 5th edition. Champaign: Human Kinetics
Malina R, Bouchard C & Bar-Or O (2004). Growth, maturation, and physical activity. 2nd edition. Champaign: Human Kinetics.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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