Modern Educational Gymnastics

G. Doreen Pallett

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780080114958
• eBook ISBN: 9781483137384

Modern Educational Gymnastics provides a guide in gymnastics based on Rudolf Laban's analysis of movement. This book sets out a discipline and standard, demanding perseverance, grit, and determination in individual ways of moving that provides every individual with an opportunity to achieve not only possibilities in movement and physical prowess, but ideas as well. The topics covered include weight transference; fundamental body action of bending, stretching, turning, and twisting; awareness of the body; way or how a person moves; time, space, and flow factors; use of space; apparatus work; and working with other people. Brief discussions on forming a lesson, achieving good poise, and use of observation to the teacher and students are also deliberated in this text. This publication is intended for gymnastics teachers, but is also useful to students or individuals hoping to acquire knowledge on the fundamentals and basic principles of gymnastics.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Modern Educational Gymnastics
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• CHAPTER I. Introduction
• CHAPTER II. Weight Transference
• CHAPTER III. Weight Transference
• CHAPTER IV. Weight Transference
• CHAPTER V. The Fundamental Body Action of Bending and Stretching
• CHAPTER VI. The Fundamental Body Action of Turning and Twisting
• CHAPTER VII. Awareness of the Body
• CHAPTER VIII. The Way (or How) a Person Moves — Effort Content
• CHAPTER IX. The Time Factor
• CHAPTER X. The Space and Flow Factors
• CHAPTER XI. The Use of Space
• CHAPTER XII. Apparatus Work
• CHAPTER XIII. Working with other People
• CHAPTER XIV. The Lesson
• CHAPTER XV. Observation
• CHAPTER XVI. Poise
• Index