Contemporary Problems and Practice in Physiology : Collection of Scientific Articles

Understanding of psychological processes underlying teaching and learning in family, at school and university requires very complex knowledge spaning various research disciplines. Physiological knowledge linking pedagogy and psychology explains the mechanisms influencing mental processes in children and adults during different stages of life and in various situations. This collection of the articles shows that Latvian physiologists are productively working in several directions. Many papers are in the field of teaching and learning psycho-physiology. RTTEMA physiologists present evidence and explain how physical activity contributes to the development of the movement skills and movement coordination in pre-school age children (J.Porozovs et al.), while research conducted at the Daugavpils University and at the National Defence Academy shows the effects of physical activity on students’ health and physical condition (I.Kaminska et al., L.Pļaviņa). In our opinion, students of biology will be especially interested in a paper, which compiles the latest findings in skeletal muscle physiology (K.EglÄ«te). There is no doubt that the reader will notice a comprehensive studies carried out at RTTEMA concerning the integrative teaching techniques and evaluation of efficiency of different teaching approaches (J.Gedrovics; D.CÄ“dere; A.Kauliņa).