발단단계에 적절한 아동체육의 특징

Healthy life is one of important factors to evaluate the quality of life. However, Korean’s healthy life expectancy is getting decrease whereas life expectancy is getting increase. Many scholars emphasize the habit to physical activity in early childhood is the most effective and economic means to narrow the gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. To help children to make a healthy habit to physical activity in early ages, developmental appropriate physical education should provide to all children. The developmental appropriate physical education pursue for children to develop proficiency of fundamental movement skills including locomotive, manipulative, and stability movements. It also consider maximum the individual varieties on the process of teaching and learning. Finally it pursues the quality of movement rather than participation of physical activity itself.