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Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance


Issue: October 2009    

What’s Skill Got to Do With It: A Developmental  Approach to Promoting Physical Activity in Urban Youths
    Jacqueline D. Goodway

Abstract: Little  attention has been given to the developmental process of “how children learn to  move” and the changing role that emerging motor competence may play in children  and youths’ physical activity levels as they grow. But we need to recognize  that there is a developmental trajectory to physical activity and the factors  that affect it if we are going to get urban youths to be physically active.  This article discusses the role that motor competence can play in promoting and  sustaining youth physical activity and describes how motor competence can be  improved in young children.

Article category: NASPE Symposium