Motor Learning and Development, Second Edition With Web Resource,
provides a foundation for understanding how humans acquire and continue
to hone their movement skills throughout the life span. These
fundamentals will give students the tools they need to create, apply,
and evaluate motor skill programs for learners and clients at all skill
and development levels, from elite athletes to those with severe
disabilities.
The second edition maintains the unique focus of the original, covering
the basics of motor learning and development simultaneously. The text
has been revised and updated with current research and examples, and it
includes the following enhancements:
- Three new chapters, Understanding Movement Control, Infant Motor
Development, and Devising a Plan, provide more depth on fundamental
topics.
- A web resource for students includes videos with guiding questions,
lab activities for each chapter, and printable versions of the book's
sidebars for use as assignments.
- Reorganized content in part I allows for deeper understanding of
complex topics.
- Parts II and III are reorganized to group content by topic rather
than by age group, in order to better infuse the two fields of motor
learning and motor development.
- Updated What Do You Think? and Try This sidebars engage students in
applying concepts, and sample answers in the instructor guide help
provide feedback on those applications.
Motor Learning and Development, Second Edition, combines these two
subdisciplines of motor behavior in an accessible and easy-to-follow
manner. Part I provides an outline of the fundamental concepts of both
motor learning and motor development. Part II explores movement patterns
across the life span, from infancy to older adulthood, with a new
chapter focusing on infant motor development. Part III examines the
changing individual constraints throughout the life span, including
physiological, psychological, and sociocultural factors and changes
related to age. Finally, part IV prepares students to create and
implement developmentally appropriate movement programs, closing with a
new chapter, Devising a Plan.
Learning aids throughout the book include chapter objectives, glossary
terms, and supplemental activities to emphasize the evolution from
research to practice. Revised opening vignettes in each chapter
demonstrate the breadth of professions that utilize knowledge of and
research in motor behavior. The significantly upgraded instructor
ancillaries--an instructor guide, test package, and presentation
package--are free to course adopters.
Motor Learning and Development provides students with the fundamental
understanding of movement skills that they need in order to develop,
implement, and critically assess motor skill programs.
