Dear Colleagues,

Childhood is a key stage for the motor, cognitive, social, affective and emotional development of the human being. The educational intervention within the home, school and social constitutes the best means to enhance the development of children and especially their health and well-being, both physical and mental or social.

There are multiple strategies that can be carried out from the family, from educational agents, such as educators and educational centers, and from public institutions establishing socio-educational policies that favor the education of children and the improvement of their 4 spheres of activity. development: motor, social, psychological and affective-emotional.

Through this special issue, the aim is to disseminate quality research related to early childhood education, work on psychomotricity or Physical Education or work on different psychological and psychosocial variables, keys to promoting optimal development of children. Empirical articles and literature reviews, systematics or meta-analyses will be accepted. As well as conceptual articles that inquire about some relevant aspect and that clarify concepts that may be key in the context of childhood, education, psychomotricity, and psychological and psychosocial variables.

Prof. Dr. Víctor Arufe-Giráldez,

Guest Editor

Childhood; Education; Psychomotricity; Psychological variables; Psychosocial variables; Integral development; Early Childhood Education; Early intervention; Health; Wellbeing