Overview
More Than Movement – Can Sports Shape Minds?
Children’s sport is often judged by performance: faster times, better skills and more wins. But what if we have been asking the wrong question?
In this online public address, Dr Louise Livingston draws on developmental neuroscience, executive function research and her own longitudinal research to explore a different question: what kind of sporting environment might best support children’s development?
Revisiting Maria Montessori’s observations through the lens of contemporary developmental science, Louise proposes a developmental framework for thinking about children’s sporting environments and asks a simple question: if we were designing children’s sporting environments from what we now know about child development, what kind of environment would we create?
Rather than offering definitive answers, this keynote aims to stimulate discussion, generate new questions and encourage future research into children’s sport and human development.