Corporeità, didattica e disabilità. Prospettive di ricerca sull’uso della lingua italiana dei segni

2012 - 2013This research work entitled “Corporeity, education and disability. Research perspectives on the use of the Italian Sign Language” analyses the historical, educational and normative development of the Sign Language using a theoretical-argumentative methodology with a descriptive-comparative character and then examines the current research perspectives which confirm the potentiality of using body experience as a possible instrument to facilitate the educational process and a valid support for the education thanks to the use of innovative software such as “The software and phonological bimanual dactylology” approved by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. In synthesis this research work analyses, after a short historical description of Deaf educational system abroad and in our country, the Sign Language with its formational parameters (place, orientation, configuration, movement) and non-manual components (body position, eyes, head and back movements, facial expressions) allowing to define their multiplanarity or rather the use of the signing area (which expands from the extreme part of the head to the waist and from one shoulder to another) in its 4 dimensions: the three spatial dimensions accessible to the signer‟s body (front-back, above-below, right-left) and temporal dimension (the production time of the sign enunciated)... [edited by author]XII n.s

La centralità del corpo in azione nei processi comunicativi, emotivi e apprenditivi, nell’ambito della comunicazione aumentativa e alternativa (CAA) nella scuola dell’infanzia

L’uso di strategie di comunicazione aumentativa e alternativa può avere rilevanti implicazioni in ambito educativo. Il bambino, attraverso l’uso del corpo e del simbolo, può scoprire occasioni di condivisione di pensieri ed emozioni, inedite chiavi di accesso all’apprendimento e originali forme di armonia emotiva con il gruppo dei pari e il docente. Dal punto di vista aumentativo, la CAA valorizza il patrimonio corporeo del soggetto non verbale (o con limitate capacità comunicative) e riconosce l’importanza di attribuire significato all’insieme dei segnali corporei, che hanno un’influenza sul partner comunicativo. La dimensione cinestesica, in un percorso didattico-educativo centrato sulla CAA, costituisce la base per la manifestazione di forme intelligenti della persona (Gardner et al., 1987)

Physical education and sport in the Campania region

The didactic of physical activities in the school, while exercising the individual technical skills, never loses sight of the unity of knowledge and invites the child to reflect on his actions, on his mental and physical changes, but also on his knowledge. For this reason, the school is differs from sports federations and associations, and it must rise to the role of leadership in the sport education. After these necessary preambles, it seems now particularly interesting to introduce the scenario laid out by ISTAT (Italian Statistics Institute) survey \u201c100 statistics to understand the country we live in\u201d. The ISTAT analysis shows how Campania is the region after Sicily with the highest percentage of people with a sedentary lifestyle. It seems that in Campania, the primary school fails in its leadership role with regard to the sports education and the motor practices and in supporting non-sedentary lifestyles. In fact, in Campania the sport practice is very low and the level of giving up is particularly high. This discussion starts from this point and should be considered as a pilot study to evaluate a possible contributory cause of the status here outlined, i.e. the perception that teachers have of their own basic and technical skills in the motor field. It is not forbidden to think that, if this survey shows a widespread perception of lack of ability, this will adversely affect the motor teaching and be at least partly responsible for the situation described herein. Therefore the aim of this research is to monitor the level of the basic skills and of the motor teaching skills of primary school teachers in the region Campania, and the way they perceive the movement, highlighting any possible critical factor

I bisogni motori e sportivi emergenti in Italia ed in Campania

Volume pp. 13-45

Sports gymnastics as a part of curriculum of Sports Management university studies in the Czech Republic

Current approaches to systemize gymnastics differ in understanding the content of this concept; however, the authors agree that gymnastics is an open system of human conscious motion activities that contribute to the physical, aesthetic and social development. In our study we focused on studies of sports management, as a young field of study that appeared at Czech universities in the past two decades. The aim was to analyze sports gymnastics as a subject with practical applications in the field of sports management, to find out sports gymnastics representation in this field at selected universities in the Czech Republic and to compare practical entrance exams and subjects of curricula with focus on sports gymnastics, by content analysis. We analysed and compared curricula of full-time bachelor’s studies of sports management, with regard to sports gymnastics, at the universities in the Czech Republic. We give results for two consecutive academic years (2009/10, 2010/11) regarding the number of students enrolled to the subjects of sports gymnastics within their curriculum, and their success rate for credit requirements in the given subjects. Gymnastic training is targeted to develop coordination and motor-functional preparedness. An approach based on health related physical fitness and optimal physical function requires an effective involvement of the deep stabilization system, which ensures strengthening and stabilization of spine. In gymnastics the body strengthening and stabilization is essential for proper technical execution of each exercise. Here we find a relationship between the function of motion system and gymnastic exercises, and we recommend them as a basis for other sports

Body and didactic mediation: experimental use of a Sense Wear Armband in a university context

The aims of this study was to understand whether instruments used for motion analysis can detect significant information about the processes of learning and teaching. Moving from Enactivism and the awareness of the embeddedness of the brain in the body and world during cognition, we tested a tool that provide data related to caloric and energetic expenditure of subject (Sense Wear Armband) in a non specialistic school setting, to understand if it is possible to detect the effective bodily participation during cognitive processes (in our experiment, during didactic mediation). For starting the experiment within using a Sense Wear Armand we monitored the activity of didactic mediation done by the professor to detect the energetic expenditure, compared with the other kinds of activities during the day; we also monitored two volunteers students that followed the lectures. Data of every lecture were then elaborated by the specific Sense Wear Software and shown through graphs that we analyzed. Graphs showed that didactic mediation developed as a succession of dynamic and static moments, with different levels of energetic expenditure; what we found interesting is that a minimal but not negligible component of metabolic activity seem to be involved even in essentially intellectual activities. This paper describes only the first step with the first results of our work. The analysis performed here has only an exploratory value and we think it might be useful to the development of the experiment; we don’t believe we have obtained definitive results, but only useful information for the development of the survey. We hope to move forward as soon as possible

The value of didactic-pedagogical skills of canoe-polo technical

Canoe-polo is a team sport. It is played in over 50 countries around the world. The role of coach concerns not only the technical – tactics skills but also the managerial, organizational and logistical skills of the players. From the point of view of teaching methodology, the canoe polo coach must be aware of the fact that his role always involves the role of teacher, and to excel in the performance of this function, must possess a number of characteristics that define the area of his specifically pedagogical jurisdiction The aim of the research is to define the elements characterizing the performance model in canoe polo that are the most important in developing a technique, tactics and conditional plan in order to provide the coach the most appropriate knowledge to organize a didactically coherent process to the requires of the group – team. The experimental research was carried out on two subjects of the 2010 Italian champions (CN Posillipo in Naples), during eight matches of the Italian Canoe Polo Championship. The research project provided for the monitoring of the heart rate (HR) during the races by teams polar heart rate monitors system, with a sampling rate of 5s per subject. The acquisitions were subsequently analyzed with a dedicated software Polar Pro Trainer 5.2. The results in this pilot study show, canoe-polo like many other team games where you use a ball, it is an intermittent sport with a high metabolic intensity (4.8)