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Journal article
Exploration: an overarching focus for holistic development
Brazilian journal of motor behavior, Vol.15(5), pp.301-320
01/12/2021
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Abstract
Promoting the development of health and well-being across the lifespan involves navigating a complex and intertwined labyrinth of biological, social, and environmental factors that change over time. Yet, approaches to positively impact developmental trajectories of these factors remain relatively siloed in academe and are generally disciplinespecific with a singular focus in their application (e.g., physical activity, motor development, social-emotional development, cognitive development). Discipline-specific interventions also are derived from a multitude of theoretical frameworks that are generally applied to only one
domain of development. Attempting to amalgamate and apply various frameworks to promote holistic development would be useful, yet arduous and impractical based on our history of discipline-specific approaches. However, the process of identifying simplicity from complexity has been applied in many domains of science (e.g., neuroscience, biology, ecology, physics) in order to promote a more palatable, yet comprehensively encapsulating, conceptualization of complex mechanisms/phenomena. To quote Einstein, “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as
simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience” 1 (p. 165). Unfortunately, our siloed approaches to interventions designed to promote human development have, perhaps, been oversimplified and void of the essence of the complexity of human development. Quoting another eminent researcher (with a focus on human development), “It all comes back to the importance of action for learning and the fundamental interrelatedness of the different parts of the human being (the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical parts) and of all human beings to one another […].
The best and most efficient way to foster any one of those (such as academic achievement) is to foster all of them” 2 (p. 789). Thus, is it possible to provide a unifying theme for intervention that places an apriori focus on, and applies, an overarching catalyst of development to any intervention to promote holistic development?
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- Title
- Exploration: an overarching focus for holistic development
- Creators
- David Stodden - University of South CarolinaKimberley D. Lakes - University of California, RiversideJean Côté - Queen's UniversityEivind Aadland - Western Norway University of Applied SciencesValentin Benzing - University of BernAli Brian - University of South CarolinaCatherine E. Draper - University of the WitwatersrandPanteleimon Ekkekakis - Iowa State UniversityGuido Fumagalli - University of VeronaArto Laukkanen - University of JyväskyläMyrto F. Mavilidi - University of WollongongEmiliano Mazzoli - Deakin UniversityRoss D. Neville - University College DublinDonna Niemistö - University of JyväskyläJames Rudd - Norwegian School of Sport SciencesArja Sääkslahti - University of JyväskyläMirko Schmidt - University of BernPhillip D. Tomporowski - University of GeorgiaPatrizia Tortella - Free University of Bozen-BolzanoSpyridoula Vazou - Iowa State UniversityCaterina Pesce - Foro Italico University of Rome
- Publication Details
- Brazilian journal of motor behavior, Vol.15(5), pp.301-320
- Publisher
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Number of pages
- 20
- Identifiers
- 991013334027702368
- Copyright
- © 2021 Stodden, Lakes, Côté, Aadland, Benzing, Brian, Draper, Ekkekakis, Fumagalli, Laukkanen, Mavilidi, Mazzoli, Neville, Niemistö, Rudd, Sääkslahti, Schmidt, Tomporowski, Tortella, Vazou and Pesceand BJMB.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article