Quick Update on Last Week’s Post
Last week I had mentioned how my husband and I are moving to St. George for nine months. I was excited that I would be in an environment of High School-aged children who had grown up with movement being an integral part of there lives. I think that I got a little bit over-excited about the idea and didn’t really think it through before I jumped into planning. Since stepping back I have realized that this (although it would be a great opportunity) is not the major focus of my thesis. I have been trying the last few weeks to sort through and narrow my topic and then I jumbled all of my ideas by getting invested in one off-topic idea. Although I plan to still try to work with these kids, I am not planning to use this information in my thesis because I have too much information I am trying to sort through already.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Very Rough Draft Proposal
The thesis “Movement in Education” focuses on the idea that certain movement patterns positively affect cognitive development in children (focused on ages 6-13). There are many studies that show the positive results of movement on the cognition of young children. This thesis will demonstrate the importance of movement in the education process. Movement incorporated into learning through dance, sport, and game can make it more possible for children with different learning styles to benefit from movement exercises in a learning environment. The paper that this thesis project will be based on will focus on studies that have explored the impact that movement has on education. The active thesis project will be a website designed to help parents, teachers, and students understand the role that movement plays on cognition. This website will have video examples of dance, sport, and game activities for each “grade” that can help children to experience learning through movement in their own way. Through this website people will be able to explore the different ways that movement can be used to aid in the learning process.
My Goals
-Write a well-developed research paper on the ways that movement can affect cognition in children. (This paper is meant to be the base of my project and be what I use to defend the legitimacy of my movement project)
-Develop a system of movement categories that can be made progressively more advanced as the child progresses in their learning process.
-Incorporate these movement categories into programs with dance, sport, and game that can be used in each of the specific age categories.
-Film these activities as a reference for the parents, teachers, or students to look to for examples of well-developed full-body movement patterns.
-Set up a website with information from my research paper and the videos of activity examples where people can ask me questions about how to use these patterns in their own lives and learning programs. This website will provide a way for the programs that I have developed to be made available to the community.
(Here are the sources that I have for my bibliography so far (as was listed two blog posts back) if you would like to see them more in detail look further back on my blog.)
• Interesting Article # 1: Facilitating Preschool Learning and Movement through Dance
This article shows how physical activity has been shown to help Preschool-aged children. Many Preschools have adopted more movement-oriented learning experiences into their curriculum and it has proven beneficial. ***The reason that I like the views of these authors is because while one of them is a dancer, another is a scientist
• Interesting Article #2: Physical Education and Implications for Students with Asperger’s Syndrome
What I focused on most in this article were the lists for “Instructional Implications of Emotional and Behavioral Characteristics” and “Instructional Implications for Physical and Gross Motor Development” because I think that they not only apply to children with AS, but with children in general. ***One of the reasons that this article interested me was because one of the authors has AS and had a difficult time with physical activity. He provides what he thought would have been beneficial to him as a student
• Interesting Article # 3: Why We Should Not Cut P.E.
This article helps to demonstrate how movement is an important part of the learning process. ***This author has written many similar papers and is cited in many of the articles that I have come across in my research, I plan to studies these authors further.
• Interesting Article # 4: Learning games through understanding: New jobs for students!
This article shows how through games and sport children can acquire new learning skills ***These authors are very creative in their approach to movement and learning. (look into separate work)
• Interesting Article # 5: Relationship between Academic Learning Time in Physical Education and Skill Concepts Acquisition and Retention
This article both seems to support and attack the ideas of my former articles ***These authors were very good at bringing in both "sides" of the research into their experiment, it may be good to read other studies supported by these authors
• Interesting Article #6: Exercise Seen as Priming Pump For Students' Academic Strides
This article tells about studies where quality physical activity programs have been shown to increase cognition in children. ***I see Debra Viadero as being a credible source for my research because she has a lot of experience with controversial topics and education (she is an assistant managing editor for Education Week)
• Interesting Article #7: Differences between Slovenian Pupils Attending Sport Class and Those Attending a Regular School Programme
This article shows statistical data collected from several studies done on school children. The main body of the article focuses on how children who took physical activity related classes along with schoolwork compared to children who didn’t take physical activity related classes along with their schoolwork. ***One of the things I found most interesting about this article was the people cited at the end, I plan to look into some of those individual articles as well.
• Interesting Article # 8: Quality Physical Education: Why the Sport Requirement Can't Do It Alone
This article focuses on how when physical activity is only approached through sport, some people feel uncomfortable or are left out. This is the reason that I am offering movement experiences through not only sport, but also games and creative movement ***Amanda D. (STEWART) STANEC is the author of many other articles relating to similar topics (such as testing in schools through Physical Education).
• Interesting Article # 9: Children's Health & Academic Performance: Elevating Physical Education's Role in Schools
This article tells about four specific studies that have shown how physical activity can improve cognitive development. I plan to go into each of these studies in depth with future articles. *** G. C. LeMasurier has written many articles from a movement analyst’s perspective. Some of his other articles may be useful in my project
My Goals
-Write a well-developed research paper on the ways that movement can affect cognition in children. (This paper is meant to be the base of my project and be what I use to defend the legitimacy of my movement project)
-Develop a system of movement categories that can be made progressively more advanced as the child progresses in their learning process.
-Incorporate these movement categories into programs with dance, sport, and game that can be used in each of the specific age categories.
-Film these activities as a reference for the parents, teachers, or students to look to for examples of well-developed full-body movement patterns.
-Set up a website with information from my research paper and the videos of activity examples where people can ask me questions about how to use these patterns in their own lives and learning programs. This website will provide a way for the programs that I have developed to be made available to the community.
(Here are the sources that I have for my bibliography so far (as was listed two blog posts back) if you would like to see them more in detail look further back on my blog.)
• Interesting Article # 1: Facilitating Preschool Learning and Movement through Dance
This article shows how physical activity has been shown to help Preschool-aged children. Many Preschools have adopted more movement-oriented learning experiences into their curriculum and it has proven beneficial. ***The reason that I like the views of these authors is because while one of them is a dancer, another is a scientist
• Interesting Article #2: Physical Education and Implications for Students with Asperger’s Syndrome
What I focused on most in this article were the lists for “Instructional Implications of Emotional and Behavioral Characteristics” and “Instructional Implications for Physical and Gross Motor Development” because I think that they not only apply to children with AS, but with children in general. ***One of the reasons that this article interested me was because one of the authors has AS and had a difficult time with physical activity. He provides what he thought would have been beneficial to him as a student
• Interesting Article # 3: Why We Should Not Cut P.E.
This article helps to demonstrate how movement is an important part of the learning process. ***This author has written many similar papers and is cited in many of the articles that I have come across in my research, I plan to studies these authors further.
• Interesting Article # 4: Learning games through understanding: New jobs for students!
This article shows how through games and sport children can acquire new learning skills ***These authors are very creative in their approach to movement and learning. (look into separate work)
• Interesting Article # 5: Relationship between Academic Learning Time in Physical Education and Skill Concepts Acquisition and Retention
This article both seems to support and attack the ideas of my former articles ***These authors were very good at bringing in both "sides" of the research into their experiment, it may be good to read other studies supported by these authors
• Interesting Article #6: Exercise Seen as Priming Pump For Students' Academic Strides
This article tells about studies where quality physical activity programs have been shown to increase cognition in children. ***I see Debra Viadero as being a credible source for my research because she has a lot of experience with controversial topics and education (she is an assistant managing editor for Education Week)
• Interesting Article #7: Differences between Slovenian Pupils Attending Sport Class and Those Attending a Regular School Programme
This article shows statistical data collected from several studies done on school children. The main body of the article focuses on how children who took physical activity related classes along with schoolwork compared to children who didn’t take physical activity related classes along with their schoolwork. ***One of the things I found most interesting about this article was the people cited at the end, I plan to look into some of those individual articles as well.
• Interesting Article # 8: Quality Physical Education: Why the Sport Requirement Can't Do It Alone
This article focuses on how when physical activity is only approached through sport, some people feel uncomfortable or are left out. This is the reason that I am offering movement experiences through not only sport, but also games and creative movement ***Amanda D. (STEWART) STANEC is the author of many other articles relating to similar topics (such as testing in schools through Physical Education).
• Interesting Article # 9: Children's Health & Academic Performance: Elevating Physical Education's Role in Schools
This article tells about four specific studies that have shown how physical activity can improve cognitive development. I plan to go into each of these studies in depth with future articles. *** G. C. LeMasurier has written many articles from a movement analyst’s perspective. Some of his other articles may be useful in my project
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