Abstract This paper explores the definition and practical use of movement education. Within that there many different ways that it can be taught, because movement education, essentially, is physical education. The four key concepts of movement education can be found by answering these questions: “What do we move?” “Where do we move?” “How do we move?” “What are the connections with whom or what we move?” “What we move” is pertaining to a student’s body, and therefore the first answer is the “body concept.” “Where we move?” We move to another spot in space. That makes the second concept, the “space concept.” “How we move,” can be thought as the energy we exert to complete an objective, and depending on how difficult …show more content…
That makes the third concept the “effort concept.” The “connections” with whom or what we move, are essentially the relationships between objects. Thus, making the fourth, and final, concept the “relationship concept.” These topics are written and studied about in, Teaching movement education: Foundations for active lifestyles, an exceptional book written by Abels and Bridges, and is a major reference to this paper. Keywords: movement education, body concept, space concept, effort concept, relationship concept Movement Education: Definition and Explanation Many people have gone to school, and if it were a public school in the United States, they would have had to attended a physical education class for a vast majority of those years at those schools. Physical education is a mandatory class for every public-school student in the United States. The goal of a physical education teacher is to teach children how to use their bodies, and for them to get used to the feeling of exercise, but ultimately to increase the fitness of a student. A concrete and studied measurement of fitness is one’s VO2 maximum. A person’s VO2 max is defined as the maximum amount of oxygen a …show more content…
If that happens then another person on the team might develop strong feelings against the two people who are ruining the game. These feelings can be turned against a teacher or the idea of doing the exercise. That is not good for anybody. When physical education and movement education are taught right then the student becomes safer in their own body. The two lower the risk of injury of those who participate. Fore a person who does not know how to use their body, no matter the situation, is dangerous. They are not just prone to hurt themselves, but also prone to hurt others. That is one of the jobs of a physical education teacher. When you stretch and use the body responsibly, and do not overuse the body, it protects self. Movement education, in a sense, is training the body how to protect itself as it moves. For instance, when you were younger you probably fell a lot as a child and it hurt. Over time, though those falls began to hurt much less. Your body learned how to either flex on impact to minimize pain or to roll with the fall to minimize pain. Movement itself is enough to teach a toddler that. When someone realizes that, they then too realize just how important physical education, and movement education is to the young