The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how children learn fundamental motor skills, how they develop a little more advanced skill to strike a ball in the air, and which patterns they show in acting reciprocally. To accomplish this purpose, I obse...
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how children learn fundamental motor skills, how they develop a little more advanced skill to strike a ball in the air, and which patterns they show in acting reciprocally. To accomplish this purpose, I observed children regularly participating in Kid Sports Club (KSC) for 6 months, and collected all the data through direct observation of their actions, video-camera recording, audio-tape recording, formal and informal interviews, and pictures. The data collected were analyzed qualitatively; first, all the data were analyzed immediately after they were collected, and then reanalyzed synthetically after the observation had been finished, in order to raise the credibility of data analysis and reduce any possible errors to the minimum. Regarding the analysis of children's interaction patterns, I analyzed how boys and girls interacted while learning fundamental moter skills.
The results of the study are like the following;
1. Girls were cooperative and interdependent in their interaction.
2. In their interaction, boys were competitive, self-centered, and proud of their own abilies.
3. When girls interacted with boys, they had a defensive attitude to understand and accept boy's activities.
4. When boys interacted with girls, they showed a rough and offensive attitude and they liked to show themselves off
5. The skill to strike a ball in the air was not developed following the A-B-C steps;
6. Children's wasy of approaching the ball in the air to strike it differed depending on their social interaction patterns; their skills to strike the ball in the air also were dependent on their interaction patterns.