Cognitive Dimension

This chapter explores the development of children’s cognitive dimensionDimensionscognitive within the Health and Physical Education (HPE) learning areaHealth and Physical Education (HPE)learning area and is embedded within the Whole child development element of the quality physical education modelSporteducation model. Greenfield (2012) advises that while the ‘physical’ body slows down and deteriorates as we get older our brain connections, known as plasticity, actually gets better, enabling increased cognition (thinking).