Kinesthetic Encouragement to Students with Specific Means Playing Volleyball

Abstract

The research aimed to monitor and determine a methodological system of actions, with specific methods of volleyball game and its implementation in the didactic sportive activities with students not only in order to develop the psychomotor skills with instruments specific to volleyball, but also for kinesthetic sense development. The research was conducted in two groups of subjects. The experimental group included 44 Year I students, in the Faculty of Medicine. The control group consisted of 51 Year I students, in the Faculty of Medicine. The research took place from 01 October 2011 to 31 January 2012. For the experimental groups, the development of the didactic activities was characterized by the introduction of the training of instruments and of technical procedures specific to the volleyball game. In the control group, kinesthetic sense development was performed only with specific means for the sportive branches, other than volleyball. As a consequence of the experimental intervention, the values of the kinesthetic sense corresponding experimental group, skills increased progressively in comparison with the performed pre-testing phase at the beginning of the 1st semester of the university year 2011/2012. According to this study, we can conclude that the development of the kinesthetic sense in students can be achieved more efficiently, with means specific to the volleyball game.