Chronopsychologie et acquisition des habiletés motrices au préscolaire : une analyse des curricula de l’école maternelle

Abstract

The title of this thesis is: chronopsychology and acquisition of motor skills in preschool: an analysis of kindergarten curricula. Its objective was to verify the link between the factors of chronopsychology and the acquisition of motor skills in preschool. This implies that a preschool learning environment must necessarily integrate several factors to make the learner effective and therefore successful. But the programs are structured with recurring activities whose content is essential to support and strengthen early learning and development of young children. The data were collected using the obervation and a questionnaire. At the end of the analyses, it appears first that taking into account the periodic variations of the temperature influences the acquisition of the fine motor skills. Overall, there is a good correlation between these indices, except between indices related to large gestures and respectively hypothermic, those related to endogenous and exogenous factors that have negative correlations. Second, the ability to take into account the endogenous or exogenous nature of rhythms influences the acquisition of the overall motor skills of preschool children. This shows that in nursery schools, the more the teacher integrates these indicator variables in the activities of supervision of children, the better they acquire mobility. Third, the ability to take into account the synchronization of biological rhythms influences the acquisition of fine motor skills in preschool children. The average levels of acquisition of motor skills in preschool children, and as perceived by their teachers, are significant depending on whether the latter observe the index factors that are involved, or by taking them into account in their classroom practices. The synchronization of rhythms that take into account the different factors of chronopsychology acts favorably on learning. The acquisition of motor skills is one of the most marked learning in preschool. Having to assimilate the conditions of facilitation of learning around the chronopsychology of preschool to those of primary, puts enough on the plank, the relevance of rhythms in learning not only at all levels of teaching/learning but also in all disciplines.