AQUATIC SPORT LEARNING THROUGH MULTILATERAL APPROACHES

Learning with a multilateral approach presents the basics of sports movements in children through adjusting children’s abilities to the movement techniques, equipment and rules used as well as with pleasant variations. Movement technique means that children are not required to make technical movements like in real sports, but what is important is the basic aspects of simple biomechanics. Multilateral development is a comprehensive development in the phase of children (Childhood) associated with the development of various physical conditions and sports skills as a foundation towards special development (specialization) and high achievement, but that in Indonesia there are still many physical education educators who have not seen children as children both in terms of size and physical and mental abilities. The objectives to be achieved in this study are to improve the quality of learning in aquatic sports on an ongoing basis. Targets to be achieved are produced in the form of a standard model of aquatic sports learning through a multilateral approach, model procedure manuals and work instructions can be used as targets or references for each variable in the development of aquatic sports for all sport stakeholders. The method used is Research and Dependovment (Borg and Gall: 1989) or development research which is grouped in 3 stages, namely (1) Pre-Development Phase includes; analysis of needs and preparation of model documents, (2) Development Phase includes, development of aquatic sports learning models through multilateral approaches and their evaluation instruments through FGD, followed by small sample trials, large group trials and (3) implementation stages include; implementation of aquatic sports learning models to the object of research, namely schools or associations of fostered aquatic sports.