Description
Motor games are incredibly useful in enhancing education and developing critical skills; they can entertain, produce pleasant emotions, improve moods, and increase the level of relationships. Motor games allow social, emotional, and cognitive development as well as the acquisition of motor skills such as knowledge and mastery of body, postural control and adjustment, and improvement of coordination. However, it is essential to select the appropriate game for each context to achieve the desired learning in all students. Further research on the opportunities, challenges, and future directions of motor games in education is necessary to successfully implement them.
The Handbook of Research on Using Motor Games in Teaching and Learning Strategy presents significant advances in motor game education and collects research evidence that uncovers the certainties and testifies to the educational power of motor games in various situations and specific contexts that promote the learning of participants. Covering topics such as emotional physical education and educational mediation, this major reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians, educators, practitioners, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Pedro Gil-Madrona (Ed.)
Pedro Gil-Madrona is a Physical Education Teacher, Bachelor and Doctor of Education Sciences with an extraordinary doctorate award. Honorable mention in the national educational research awards in 1998. Third regional research award In Spain. School principal. Head of University in the area of Teaching of Body Expression, in Spain. Participation in more than 20 research projects (Spain, Chile and Colombia). More than 100 articles in prestigious magazines. 45 of them in ISI-JCR and Scopus. 5 of them in Q1. Author, co-author and director of more than 20 books, most of them in relation to Physical Education in Early Childhood Education. He has given more than 50 conferences at national and international conferences in Spain, Paris, London, Rome, Bologna, Verona, Bogotá, Tirgu-Mures, Mar del Plata, Budapest, Maracay, San Cristobal, Caracas, Rubio, Valencia and San Diego, University of Edinburgh (Scotland) Antigua and Rotahuleu, University of Vienna (Austria), Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bogotá, and the University of Miami, in Verona, New York University in Brockport, in the University of Massachusetts, Harvard University in Project Zero and Tufts University in the USA.