Avaliação da coordenação motora : conceitos e história

Abstract

Motor coordination is the body's ability to form the structure of bones and muscles to perform body movements It is a decisive dimension in the child's development, directly associated with their growth and which has an important role in children's life in the school environment, especially in Physical Education classes to learn through play. Therefore, this project aims to analyze through a systematic review of the literature, the concepts of motor coordination and the history of this area of knowledge in the context of Physical Education. This review had as inclusion criteria original articles, without chronological determination, with searches performed in Scielo, and Google Scholar, using the descriptors: Motor Coordination, Physical Education and Evaluation. The initial search for titles that fit the theme according to the descriptors was 08 articles found, after reading the abstracts to identify the keywords searched, 04 articles were selected for analysis. The selected studies point out the importance of the association of more than one form of evaluation of motor coordination in the growth of a child, and the need for further studies within the area to obtain more descriptors and assessment instruments.