視覚障害児のマット運動の指導

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 The purpose of this study was to investigate the principle of teaching new movements to visually impaired children through the production of effective procedures for teaching mat exercises to them. To achieve this purpose, three cases were demonstrated; a front roll, a front roll into a leg split and a cartwheel.

 Through the analysis of these cases, first, it was found that the children gained the ability to perform the different exercises through the process of moving their bodies according to the names of the starting and finishing positions of the movements. This process is referred to as using the ‘instruction words of forms’. Next, it was found that the children acquired the ability to perform the exercises through the use of onomatopoeic and mimetic words. The children pictured the movements using their imagination and as a result, they gained the ability to change the timing and rhythm of movements. This time by using the ‘instruction words of movements’. Lastly, it was found that through arranging the ‘instruction words of form’ and the ‘instruction words of movements’ along the flow of a movements, visually impaired children could form a whole ‘movement process’ to arrange movements.

 In addition, through the analysis of these teaching cases, in the teaching new movements to blind children, it was suggested that blind children should acquire the “coarse form” on the basis of the theory of movement structure and system and modification of movements should start after improvement in the “coarse form”.