Fundamental movement skills: an important focus
By Lisa M. Barnett, D. Stodden, K. Cohen, Jordan J. Smith, D. Lubans, M. Lenoir, S. Iivonen, Andrew Miller, A. Laukkanen, D. Dudley and 3 more. 2016
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Purpose: Recent international conference presentations have critiqued the promotion of fundamental movement skills (FMS) as a primary pedagogical focus. Presenters have called for a debate about the importance of, and rationale for teaching FMS, and this letter is a response to that call. The authors of this letter are academics who actively engage in FMS research. Method: We have answered a series of contentions about the promotion of FMS using the peer reviewed literature to support our perspective. Results: We define what we mean by FMS, discuss the context of what skills can be considered fundamental, discuss how the development of these skills is related to broader developmental health contexts, and recommend the use of different pedagogical approaches when teaching FMS. Conclusions: We conclude the promotion of FMS is an important focus in Physical Education (PE) and sport and provide future research questions for investigation.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
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Citations in the corpus
- Fundamental motor skills: A systematic review of terminology (2018, background): “We acknowledge the ongoing discussion of cultural considerations regarding specific skills that may or may not be considered “fundamental” to different populations (Barnett et al., 2016).”
- What are Fundamental Motor Skills and What is Fundamental About Them? (2020, background): “…given the recent active level of publications and conference talks in regard to nomenclature and classi fi cation of fundamental motor skills (e.g., Barnett et al., 2016; Hulteen, Morgan, Barnett, Stodden, & Lubans, 2018; Logan, Ross, Chee, Stodden, & Robinson, 2018; Lubans, Morgan, Cliff,…”