Research Article | Open Access
Potentiating Gross Motor Coordination in 5-year-old Infants
Guiseti Maria Puerta Vilchez Flor De María Sánchez Aguirre Elva Luz Castañeda Alvarado
Pages: 601-609
Abstract
The practice of gross motor coordination allows the infant to perform experiential
actions to reach maturity, evidencing the passage from practical action to the action of
thinking. In this way, feelings and sensations are promoted; discovering one's own
body, space and time. The objective of the research was to describe the level of gross
motor coordination presented by five-year-old children from I.E.I. N° 0345, Lima and
I.E.I. N° 166 "Warma Kuyay", Callao, 2020. The research approach was quantitative,
basic type and comparative descriptive design. The technique used was observation
and the instrument was the checklist validated through the expert judgment technique
and the reliability was 0.911, according to Cronbach's alpha. The results obtained
describe the differences presented by five-year-old students in relation to gross motor
coordination; the main indicators being the prioritization of the body through movement
and the orientation to the development of motor activities, especially in the first years
of life. This, because it favors the physical, emotional, socio-affective and cognitive
levels, which evidences the differences between the samples investigated.
Keywords
Gross Motor, Cognition, Space, Time, Infants, Gross Motor, Cognition