Partners and Events
No.44
May 2005
 
    

Report on the 1st International Congress on Physical Education and the Symposium on Infant Psycho Motor Skills
Dr. Gladys Becquer Díaz, Cuba


“Physical Education and Sports for All, a Right of the People”


With the attendance of international and Cuban experts, physical education professors and psychomotor function specialists from twenty six countries the I International Congress of Physical Education and the II Symposium of Child Psychomotor Functions, was held last November 5-9 of 2004 in Varadero, Cuba. In this framework the "Physical Education Class" contest was also presented with the participation of professors from Cuba and Dominican Republic.
The five days of academic sessions, organized in six pre-congress courses, twelve masterly conferences, nine specialized workshops, four round tables with experts and six commissions for free topics, were characterized by the diversity of approaches and points of view about the teaching of Physical Education and Sports, the adapted Physical Education, the professional education, the early stimulation and the child and therapeutic psychomotor functions, favoring the discussions and exchange of experiences between delegates, in a professional climate of friendship and camaraderie.
The main axis for the debates was the presentations made by Dr. Maurice Pieron, from Belgium and Dr. Domingo Blázquez, from Spain, about the didactics in the physical education classes. Also the works on the current approaches on the development of psychomotor functions and the early stimulation were presented by Dr. Vitor da Fonseca, from Portugal and Dr. María Dolores Villa de Madrid, Spain, respectively, as well as the reflections made by Dr. Orlando Terré about the world changes and progresses occurred during the last three decades regarding Special Education. All these subjects had the purpose of establishing a type of school which is able to adapt, accept and develop the differences as a positive value and the opening of a pluralist and multicultural space.
At the end of the meeting, Dr. Gladys Bequer Díaz, President of the Organizing Committee and Vice-President of the Iber American Child Psychomotor Functions Association, made a call to reflection for everyone to assume commitments and lead our efforts to make a better world for our boys, girls and young people. She also expressed that the goals of the academic meeting were fulfilled by showing the most modern approaches on Physical Education and Psychomotor Functions, and the exchange of progressive pedagogical experiences, methods and pedagogical expertise in the field of Physical Education.
In his closing speech, Dr. Orlando Terré Camacho, President of the World Special Education Association and Executive President of the Iber American Child Psychomotor Functions Association, called for the World Convention on Child Psychomotor Functions, Stimulation and Health to be held on August 11-14, 2005 in Havana, Cuba under the slogan of "Body, Movement and Human Development".

Dr. Gladys Becquer Díaz
President of the Organising Committee and
Vice President of Iber American Child Psychomotor Functions Association
Email: varadero@inder.co.cu



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