No.44 May 2005 |
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“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 ![]() http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-may2005.htm |