This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... children the only constructive physical-training activity. Work cannot be organized by any flight of the imagination as a systematic physical-training procedure for all the children of the nation. And because of the influence of machinery on work, and its specialization, very little of the work ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... children the only constructive physical-training activity. Work cannot be organized by any flight of the imagination as a systematic physical-training procedure for all the children of the nation. And because of the influence of machinery on work, and its specialization, very little of the work children have to do, even on the farm, has any developmental value. It lacks especially the values for organic development, and the values which come out of the social discipline of vigorous play. However, when real developmental work comes into the experience of children, it is so much to their advantage. It should never exclude, however, the free exercise of the instincts and emotions in the big-muscle, social play. C. ADAPTIVE SELECTION Physical-training activities must be selected according to natural principles of adaptation to the incentives, capacities, and needs of each age period, with sex differentiation and individual differences taken into account. The selection is adaptive, and it must be determined by continuous educational research. i. Age adaptation. The adaptation of activities to age periods requires a selection according to age tendencies, capacities, and needs. This gives a selection according to the principle of progression in age incentive, capacities, and needs. The selection may be very precise and scientific. Age adaptation requires (a) that the activities shall be selected which are most characteristic of the natural tendencies of the age. They should be the activities which tend to arise spontaneously. They should tend to go on irrespective of adult organization. This is not a question of what it is possible to teach children. For example, specialized teaching can produce prodigies in any activity; but it is not...
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Add this copy of School Program in Physical Education to cart. $49.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
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