Motivação e educação física escolar: uma abordagem multidimensional


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Ao considerarmos hipoteticamente três alunos com aptidões e potencialidades similares para as aulas de Educação Física, poderemos observar que um deles se identifica e realiza o programa proposto, enquanto outro apenas cumpre com seu dever de participar e para um terceiro as situações que surgem nas aulas são desagradáveis e enfadonhas. As diferenças de motivação podem explicar, em parte, níveis de envolvimento diferenciados. Apesar de sua importância para a aprendizagem, motivação raramente recebe a devida atenção de professores e pesquisadores. Com a realização deste estudo buscou-se discutir a importância do conhecimento e aplicação intencional de conceitos motivacionais em sua complexa dinâmica de desencadeamento. Nesta perspectiva, o professor deve reconhecer não somente temas de planejamento como: metodologia, conteúdos, avaliação e objetivos, mas considerar também a dimensão emocional e motivacional de sua atuação. O presente estudo teve a intenção de compreender o fenômeno motivação em seus diferentes aspectos estabelecendo e analisando as relações mais significativas entre os componentes motivacionais e o processo ensino e aprendizagem em Educação Física. Mediante tal análise, estabeleceu-se o propósito de proporcionar conhecimentos necessários à construção de um ambiente de aprendizagem: a) favorável ao aprimoramento da qualidade de oportunidades de aprendizagem e envolvimento dos alunos frente às atividades propostas, e; b) favorável à criação de impressões positivas relacionadas às atividades físicas e corporais, podendo contribuir assim, na incorporação dessas práticas à vida das pessoas. Dessa maneira este estudo se propôs a apontar orientações didáticas comprometidas com questões motivacionais, compondo diretrizes úteis para desenvolver a motivação em aulas de Educação Física.




Learning Science Outside the Classroom


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This book shows how a wide range of contexts for learning science can be used outside of the classroom, and includes learning: at museums, science centres and planetaria from newspapers, magazines and through ICT at industrial sites and through science trails at zoos, farms, botanic gardens, residential centres and freshwater habitats in school grounds. With contributions from well known and respected practitioners in all fields of science education and through using case studies, Learning Science Outside the Classroom offers practical guidance for teachers, assistant teaching staff and student teachers involved in primary and secondary education. It will help enable them to widen the scientific experience and understanding of pupils. The advice in this book has been checked for safety by CLEAPSS.







Aesthetic Experience in Science Education


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Ths bk examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science&in science education from the perspective of knowlecge as action&language use,based on the writings of John Dewey&Ludwig Wittgenstein.It offers a novel contribution to the current debat




Academic Self-efficacy in Education


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This book documents systematic, prodigious and multidisciplinary research in the nature and role of academic self-efficacy, and identifies areas for future research directions within the three sections of the book: 'Assessment and Measurement of Academic Self-efficacy', 'Empirical Studies on What Shapes Academic Self-efficacy', and 'Empirical Studies on Influence of Academic Self-efficacy'. The book presents works by educators and researchers in the field from various parts of the world, highlighting advances, creative and unique approaches, and innovative methods. It examines discussions around the theoretical and practical aspects of academic self-efficacy in culturally and linguistically-diverse educational contexts. This book also showcases work based on classical and modern test theory methods, mediation and moderation analysis, multi-level modelling approaches, and qualitative analyses.







A Teacher's Guide to Including Students with Disabilities in General Physical Education


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The comprehensive, bestselling guide to making inclusive physical education work for students of all ages--includes a wide range of low?cost adaptations, realistic case studies, and practical guidance on key issues like safety and behavior challenges




The Multiplayer Classroom


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Go beyond gamification’s badges and leaderboards with the new edition of the book, first published in 2011, that helped transform education. Going far beyond the first edition of The Multiplayer Classroom, forthrightly examining what worked and what didn’t over years of development, here are the tools to design any structured learning experience as a game to engage your students, raise their grades, and ensure their attendance. Suitable for use in the classroom or the boardroom, this book features a reader-friendly style that introduces game concepts and vocabulary in a logical way. Also included are case studies, both past and present, from others teaching in their own multiplayer classrooms around the world. You don't need any experience making games or even playing games to use this book. You don’t even need a computer. Yet, you will join many hundreds of educators who have learned how to create multiplayer games for any age on any subject. Lee Sheldon began his writing career in television as a writer-producer, eventually writing more than 200 shows ranging from Charlie’s Angels (writer) to Edge of Night (head writer) to Star Trek: The Next Generation (writer-producer). Having written and designed more than 40 commercial and applied video games, Lee spearheaded the first full writing for games concentration in North America at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the second writing concentration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he is now a professor of practice. Lee is a regular lecturer and consultant on game design and writing in the United States and abroad. His most recent commercial game, the award-winning The Lion’s Song, is currently on Steam.




Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching


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Establishing the parameters and goals of the new field of mind, brain, and education science. A groundbreaking work, Mind, Brain, and Education Science explains the new transdisciplinary academic field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. The trend in “brain-based teaching” has been growing for the past twenty years and has exploded in the past five to become the most authoritative pedagogy for best learning results. Aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and policy makers, and anyone interested in the future of education in America and beyond, Mind, Brain, and Education Science responds to the clamor for help in identifying what information could and should apply in classrooms with confidence, and what information is simply commercial hype. Combining an exhaustive review of the literature, as well as interviews with over twenty thought leaders in the field from six different countries, this book describes the birth and future of this new and groundbreaking discipline. Mind, Brain, and Education Science looks at the foundations, standards, and history of the field, outlining the ways that new information should be judged. Well-established information is elegantly separated from “neuromyths” to help teachers split the wheat from the chaff in classroom planning, instruction and teaching methodology.




Children Moving


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"Soundly based in the research literature and theory, this comprehensive introductory text is a practical guide to teaching physical education to the elementary school child. Its skill theme approach guides teachers in the process of assisting children develop their motor skills and physical fitness through developmentally appropriate activities.This mandatory package includes the "Movement Analysis Wheel" that can be used by students and teachers to more fully understand the skill theme approach and apply it with children."--Publisher's website.