Psicomotricidad infantil

Abstract

Text elaborated in a didactic way, providing its readers with the indispensable bases to achieve a solid psychomotor training. In the first instance, readers are oriented so that they can familiarize themselves with the topics to be dealt with and thus get a general idea of the subject. In order to achieve a better understanding of the contents and to facilitate its use, this work is organized in four units: The first provides the basic concepts about psychomotor skills, the importance of psychomotor education in preschool and its relationship with other aspects of the child's integral development. In the second unit, motor behaviors that are basic to any learning process are discussed, referring both to the psychomotor development of large muscle masses, as well as small segments that gradually lead the child to more complex learning processes such as reading, writing and arithmetic. As a complement to the aspects dealt with in the previous unit and to deepen the study of psychomotor skills, the third unit deals with psychomotor contents related to perception, starting with the structuring of the body schema, so that the child can progressively reach the structuring of space and time. The fourth unit is a compilation of the aspects treated in the previous units, in which the contents are summarized according to the levels of development of the child; its motor characteristics are described in the stages of two and three years, four to five and five to six years and a repertoire of basic exercises of psychomotor character is proposed for each level. This unit also contains a series of proposals for activities based on experience, which provide the reader with ideas for designing and executing psychomotor programs.