Best practice, enhancing children´s pa in kindergartens by connecting music and movement in pre-school education

Senior FLV Director/Co-founder: Kindergarten Housenka and IMAGO individual learning school in Prague Director of Music-based P.E. Program, teacher and trainer Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Charles University Czech Republic. The key period for a positive attitude towards PA is a youth, which is also a key period for building a positive relationship to the active and healthy lifestyle. This study is focused on creating new Music Based Physical Educational (MBPE) program for pre-school children in the Czech Republic, focused on all-round personal development by connecting music and movement, and on determining it´s effect. An additional effect of MBPE program should be the support of pre-school child’s natural and comprehensive motor development, sensorimotor, musical and rhytmical competences with the stress on personal health and hygiene. To validate the effect of MBPE program, the study forms part of a longitudinal research design in kindergartens during nine months. Two experimental and one control group of pre-school children were chosen and observed. Test results before and after MBPE program intervention were ANOVA analysed. With pre-test and post-test use of a musical/motor test battery(Brtníková, 2007), we have witnessed major improvement in the children´s musical and motor skills, in aesthetical motoric exhibitions, in general in relation to the quality of motoric and musical skills and in feelings towards the music. The children aquired new competences from the fields of general knowledge and social communication too. The strengthening and deepening of the interpersonal boundaries and relationships among the children contributed to their orderliness and discipline. Considering our results, we can ascertain that MBPE program has a positive influence on, not only a child´s musical/motor skills, but also on their acquisition of a wide set of new physical competences, experience, musical competences. As side effect we noticed also positive influence on social, cognitive and intellectual skills.

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