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Lay, Nancy – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1979
Suggestions are made for applying research findings to the teaching of physical education. (JD)
Descriptors: Expectation, Individual Differences, Learning Processes, Motivation
Peer reviewedThelen, Esther – American Psychologist, 1995
Discusses the renaissance of motor skill acquisition studies that are affording new insights into the processes by which infants and children learn to control their bodies. The article explains how studies are now focusing less on how children perform and more on how the components cooperate to produce stability or engender change, thus making…
Descriptors: Biomechanics, Child Behavior, Child Development, Learning Processes
Download full textBuchmann, Margret; Schwille, John – 1982
The presuppositions that favor firsthand experience over secondhand information, as pertaining to learning and education, are questioned. It is noted that, when education and firsthand experience are described as if equivalent, a presumption is made that a commonsense theory of knowledge and mind is valid. Research on the social psychology of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
