Recent Advances in Children’s Motor Development: From Birth to Adolescence
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1224
Special Issue Editors
Interests: motor learning; teaching styles; teaching–learning of motor competencies; sport and physical education in school; motor assessment of process and product; teaching education (PETE)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: teaching–learning styles applied to physical education teaching; quality of physical education (QPE); enriched teaching and technologies for teaching in physical education; models and methods of motor assessment; relationship between physical activity, motor development, and related factors; multicomponent projects in primary and secondary school; health-promoting schools; relationship between lifestyles, overweight and obesity, and physical fitness in childhood
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The contribution of motor experience to children’s growth in developmental age has been widely supported by numerous scientific evidence and good practices. However, complex socio-cultural transformations—i.e., the increased use of digital tools and devices among infants and children—are generating new opportunities for accessing knowledge and, consequently, different ways of learning and interacting with peers.
This Special Issue aims to address this topic with a particular emphasis on pedagogical and educational models related to lifespan motor development. It may include studies aimed at presenting a new synthesis about the complex, fluid, and context-dependent nature of developmental change, emphasizing the interconnectedness of perception, action, cognition, physical fitness, and factors related to the practice of physical activity. From novel advancement in motor development, this Special Issue aims to showcase the links between scientific and methodological approaches applied in contexts (i.e., sport, physical education, free time, etc.), translating theory into practice and enhancing the transformative nature of motor development in different ages.
Prof. Dr. Dario Colella
Dr. Domenico Monacis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- motor development
- learning of motor competence
- physical literacy in children and adolescents
- health-related physical fitness components
- skill-related physical fitness components
- multidisciplinary approaches
- dynamic systems theory
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