Educational potential of physical education in pre-school and infant education:: Attributes and opinions

The paper reports teaching professionals' views on the role of motor skills development, through Physical Education, in Pre-school and Infant Education (0 to 6 years). For this purpose, both students and teachers' opinions and the qualities they assign to PE at this education stage are reported from three different perspectives 1) Early childhood education students; 2) Infant school teachers; and 3) Nursery and preschool teachers, This information will allow us to shed light on the role of an area that is considered basic at this stage, and to clarify what different teaching professionals expect from it.