MOTOR KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION AND MOTOR CREATIVITY MANIFESTATION
MOTOR KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION AND MOTOR CREATIVITY MANIFESTATION

Summary/Abstract: Movement during preschool age is the primary way of action, expression, learning and development. The aim of the paper is to consider the relation between motor creativity and motor knowledge in preschool children. According to contemporary creativity theories, knowledge has an important role to play in forming of a critical level below which creativity is not possible. Insufficiently stimulated and developed motor skills and knowledge at this age can be the cause of decreased or ’slumbered’ motor creativity. Estimation of motor performance (motor testing - validated battery of 7 motor tasks) and motor creativity (Torrens TCAM test) has been carried out in Vrsac on the sample of 224 preschool children aged 6 to 6,5. The results show that motorically more able children (with higher level of motor knowledge) have made better results in TCAM test tasks. The obtained results point to the need to provide preschool children with suitable conditions leading to their optimal motor development and creative motor expression.

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