Uncovering the Role of Motor Performance and Creative Thinking on Sports Creativity in Primary School-aged Children

Santos, Sara; Monteiro, Diogo

doi:10.1080/10400419.2020.1843125

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“…On the one side, creative movements are hypothesized to be enacted creative ideas. This hypothesis is consistent with cross-sectional associations between creative thinking and creative sport performance (Santos et al, 2017;Santos and Monteiro, 2021) and underlies the suggestion that designed PA programs may foster motor creativity in children through the development of divergent cognitive processes (Bournelli and Mountakis, 2008). On the other side, creative solutions to motor problems are suggested to arise from task and environmental constraints without any abstract rule representation of the emerging creative behavior (Hristovski et al, 2011;Orth et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Evidence on the relation between motor creativity and motor coordination development in children is mixed, showing either a positive association ( Milić, 2014 ; Santos and Monteiro, 2021 ), or no association ( Scibinetti et al, 2011 ; Marinšek and Lukman, 2021 ). Also the role of cognition in children’s motor creativity is an open issue.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Giving Ideas Some Legs or Legs Some Ideas? Children’s Motor Creativity Is Enhanced by Physical Activity Enrichment: Direct and Mediated Paths

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Approaches to foster motor creativity differ according to whether creative movements are assumed to be enacted creative ideas, or solutions to emerging motor problems that arise from task and environmental constraints. The twofold aim of the current study was to investigate whether (1) an enriched physical education (PE) intervention delivered with a joint constraints-led and cognitive stimulation approach fosters motor creativity, and the responsiveness to the intervention is moderated by baseline motor and cognitive skills and sex; (2) the intervention may benefit motor creativity through gains in motor coordination, executive function, and creative thinking. Ninety-five children, aged 6–9 years, participated in a 6-month group randomized trial with specialist-led enriched PE vs. generalist-led conventional PE. Before and after the intervention, Bertsch’s Test of Motor Creativity, Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Random Number Generation task and Torrance Test of Creative Thinking were administered. Linear mixed models were run accounting for the random effects of data clusters. Multiple mediation analysis was performed to assess whether motor coordination, executive function and creative thinking mediated any improvement of motor creativity. Results showed that (1) specialist-led enriched PE, compared to generalist-led conventional practice, elicited a more pronounced improvement in all motor creativity dimensions (fluency, flexibility, and originality) independently of baseline levels of motor and cognitive skills and sex; and (2) improved motor creativity was partially mediated by improved motor coordination and, as regards motor flexibility, also by improved inhibitory ability. In conclusion, enriching PE with tailored manipulations of constraints and variability may enhance the ability to create multiple and original task-pertinent movements both directly and through indirect paths. The results are discussed extending to motor creativity a theoretical framework that distinguishes different creativity modes. The intervention may have fostered the generation of creative movements directly through the exposure to variation in constraints, activating the sensorimotor ‘flow’ mode of creativity that bypasses higher-order cognition, but also indirectly through a systematic and conscious convergence on solutions, activating the ‘deliberate’ mode of creativity that relies on inhibition to reject common or task-inappropriate movement categories.

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Giving Ideas Some Legs or Legs Some Ideas? Children’s Motor Creativity Is Enhanced by Physical Activity Enrichment: Direct and Mediated Paths

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“…This can also include a broader examination of the target population’s creative potential. Consequently (at least in the contexts of creative togetherness described in this work), not only the joint methods approach has a precious ally in the theoretical resources of works on dynamic systems and ecological dynamics (see e.g., Araújo and Davids, 2004 ; Araújo et al, 2006 ; Araújo et al, 2017 ; Kimmel, 2017 , 2019 ; Schiavio and Kimmel, 2021 ); it could also be integrated with specific tests and measurements relating to individual and group (motor) creativity (see e.g., Bournelli et al, 2009 ; Grammatikopoulos et al, 2012 ; Santos and Monteiro, 2021 ) in order to increase its explanatory power. This might be beneficial when it allows for broader analytical tools combining interactions at the micro and macro level, the experience and formation of meaningful behavioral patterns, and the creative drive that favors different types of exploration and problem-solving dynamics at multiple scales (see also Hristovski et al, 2012 ; Orth et al, 2017 ).…”

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Creative Togetherness. A Joint-Methods Analysis of Collaborative Artistic Performance

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In the present study, we combined first-, second-, and third-person levels of analysis to explore the feeling of being and acting together in the context of collaborative artistic performance. Following participation in an international competition held in Czech Republic in 2018, a team of ten artistic swimmers took part in the study. First, a self-assessment instrument was administered to rate the different aspects of togetherness emerging from their collective activity; second, interviews based on video recordings of their performance were conducted individually with all team members; and third, the performance was evaluated by external artistic swimming experts. By combining these levels of analysis in different ways, we explore how changes in togetherness and lived experience in individual behavior may shape, disrupt, and (re-)stabilize joint performance. Our findings suggest that the experience of being and acting together is transient and changing, often alternating phases of decrease and increase in felt togetherness that can be consistently recognized by swimmers and external raters.

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“…A good physique guarantees long-term development, the evaluation of which has been included in the CEE. Still, parents should avoid short-term examination thinking (Otero-Saborido et al, 2021;Santos and Monteiro, 2021). Therefore, schools should pay practical attention to cultivating students' physical fitness and sports quality and expand PE teaching projects.…”

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Exploration of Sports Participation and Curriculum Resource Utilization in Primary Schools Before and After the “Double Reduction”

Liu

Gui-hong

2022

Front. Psychol.

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In order to eliminate capital chaos in the Education And Training (EAT) industry and ease parents' and students' excessive attention to subject achievements over physical quality, China government has launched the “Double Reduction” (“DR”) policy which promotes students' Sports Participation (SP) in the Compulsory Education (CE) stage concerning students' physical and mental health. Firstly, based on the actual situation of students' SP before and after releasing the “DR” policy, this paper understands the exact needs of parents and children. Secondly, following empirical research and mathematical statistics, it analyzes the structure and characteristics of students' SP before and after the release of the “DR” policy. Mainly, the experiment focuses on the frequency, project types, and off-campus class expenditure. It also considers students' SP motivation in on-campus and off-campus sports classes before and after the “DR” policy proposal. Additionally the general curriculum resource utilization of PE teachers are surveyed in order to find out the current status of on-campus PE classes. Eventually, the strategies are put forward to optimize students' SP under the “DR” from the perspectives of family, school, and society. The results show that after the release of “DR”, parents and schools gradually pay attention to student's physical health and better understand students' physical exercise in school. The consumption expenditure on sports off-campus classes has increased significantly. Meanwhile, family income and the father's occupation significantly impact the children's SP frequency in off-campus sports classes. Overall, “DR” is a protracted war. The existing difficulties need to be solved by families, schools, and the government. The research provides a practical basis for extending and managing on-campus sports classes and training. It helps timely uncover the problems in policy implementation. It guides the formulation of PE policy in the next stage of CE.

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Uncovering the Role of Motor Performance and Creative Thinking on Sports Creativity in Primary School-aged Children

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

Giving Ideas Some Legs or Legs Some Ideas? Children’s Motor Creativity Is Enhanced by Physical Activity Enrichment: Direct and Mediated Paths

Giving Ideas Some Legs or Legs Some Ideas? Children’s Motor Creativity Is Enhanced by Physical Activity Enrichment: Direct and Mediated Paths

Creative Togetherness. A Joint-Methods Analysis of Collaborative Artistic Performance

Exploration of Sports Participation and Curriculum Resource Utilization in Primary Schools Before and After the “Double Reduction”

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