O esporte karatê para a melhoria do desenvolvimento motor, cognitivo, afetivo social e das capacidades motoras de crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

Karate is a sport capable of developing motor, cognitive and social potential. It has important functionality in the formation of character, productivity and education of children and adolescents. Objective: To demonstrate that karate is a sport with sporting and pedagogical characteristics, capable of stimulating the motor development of children and adolescents. Methodology: Bibliographic and qualitative research, carried out in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Portal of Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), PubMed, Google Scholar and Academic Repository of Graduation at PUC - Goiás. Results: Was identified limitations that other sports areas have to develop all the appropriate stimuli for the motor, cognitive and social development of children and adolescents. Conclusion: All sports, even with failures in the work of fine and gross motor coordination, can help in the control of diseases and provoke positive stimuli of psychological, biological and social functions. However, not every sport has the capacity to develop, in a practical, complete and pedagogical way, the physiological, biological and social aspects such as karate, with emphasis mainly on character formation, collective construction, individual health of children and adolescents.