DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT NEW FORMATIVE AND EVALUATION PROTOCOLS FOR MOTOR AND SPORTS SCIENCES FROM A DIDACTIC-PEDAGOGICAL POINT OF VIEW

Motor and sports education as a formative tool for young people is a topic of considerable interest in the sphere of pedagogical sciences and needs to continue research and studies aimed to experimenting new didactic protocols and new evaluation approaches that are able to enhance the potential educational interests rather than of a mere "performance" nature. In this regard, this research study aims to frame a suitable assessment scheme that is able to measure the formative and educational evolution generated by an experimental didactic protocol oriented for primary school children and based on motor and sport activity. This, at the same time, also through an innovative growth path of sport in the panorama of educational sciences. The research was conducted through the preparation of two homogenous groups of 100 children each, between 5 and 8 years of age; first group (sample group) followed the didactic experimentation and the second (control group) continued with the traditional didactic-training approach provided by their own schools. Finally, educational progress within and between groups was assessed and compared in order to analyze the related pedagogical considerations that emerged

An experimental didactic path to "re-educate to values" through motor and sports practice

Physical and sports practice, to date, is called to explode all its educational potential both in formal and non-formal training contexts. This assumption takes on even more importance when the pedagogical and training action must be aimed at critical social contexts. In order to achieve this task, it is essential to structure didactic strategies that convey motor and sports activities towards the pursuit of educational-pedagogical objectives. In this regard, this research work proposes an experimental didactic path aimed at subjects who have experienced social deviance phenomena, and oriented towards their "re-education to values"

Experimenting with motor and sports sciences in primary school: Innovative proposals for didactics and evaluation systems

The Italian primary school, among its institutional teachings, requires the presence of motor and sports education, and a teacher that is specialized and competent in this discipline. Starting from this hypothesis, this research work sets itself the objective of identifying both an innovative and effective didactic-pedagogical program for the school context, and an appropriate evaluation approach consistent with the motor, socio-relational and educational objectives pursued through motor and sports sciences. Through the experimental program "Sport in Classe", the research was carried out directly in the primary school context and allowed to meet the set objectives and highlight the importance that the graduate in motor sciences could assume in the Italian primary school

EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES IN KINDERGARTEN: MOTOR AND SPORTS DIDACTICS AT THE SERVICE OF THE TRAINING GROWTH OF CHILDREN

Kindergarten is the first educational environment, external to the family, in which each individual begins to relate to a group of peers. It is evident how important it is to lay the educational foundations in this context, so as to establish the basic conditions for training the future youth of tomorrow. In this perspective, the inclusion of experimental educational protocols in the educational curriculum of preschools could play a fundamental role. This Paper shows the application of an experimental educational protocol focused on motor and sports education, and analyzes the results in terms of educational growth and pedagogy compared to a control group that, instead, continued with regular school activities. The objective is to bring to light the educational benefits that an experimental motor and sports education approach is able to generate in children, and the extent to which training, starting from kindergarten, should be oriented in this direction

Oblique didactics: Innovating the ludic experience in kindergarten to promote pedagogical training

The ludic experience through the discovery of body and movement in kindergarten is represented by an experience of fundamental importance for the pedagogical development of children. Also, in this case, it is necessary to research for innovative didactic proposals that motivate the children and lay the foundations for an effective training course. The purpose of this paper is to analyse, with a sample of children aged between 4 and 6 years, oblique-type didactics that can be used to evaluate the training progress obtainable through this innovative approach, and to hypothesize its use in kindergarten

THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND CORPOREALITY IN THE INCLUSION PROCESS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS IN TRAINING

It was decided to carry out an exploratory study aimed at investigating the opinions of 100 teachers specializing in special educational needs at the University of Naples “Suor Orsola Benincasa”, in relation to the aspect of corporeality and motor education as an essential dimension in the inclusive process to be implemented in the school context. 100 semi-structured on-line interviews were held. It was decided to carry out an analysis of the content of the interviews (Krippendorff, 2013) adopting the Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) as the theoretical and methodological substrate, with specifc reference to the constructivist-epistemological paradigm (Charmaz, 2005). The qualitative analysis was supported by the use of Nvivo software (Richards, 1999). The corpus of the interviews was subjected to content analysis (Krippendorff, 2013). The qualitative analysis of the corpus of the interviews highlights the need for providing postgraduate teachers with more specifc training in the feld of physical education, particularly in its inclusive purpose. While recognizing the importance of physical education in the integral formation of the person, the teachers declared themselves not very competent and, above all, that they would not put into practice actions concerning the motor dimension in their teaching activity

Una Proposta Formativa Sperimentale per migliorare il Benessere Scolastico degli Alunni della Scuola Primaria attraverso lo Sport

Any environmental context that includes socio-relational interactions has inherent in itself the challenge of creating a state of well-being for all the individuals that compose it. This concept takes on even more importance when referring to formal formative contexts that welcome very young students such as that of the Primary School, where educational growth cannot be separated from the presence of school well-being. The purpose of this contribution is to illustrate the concept of school well-being and then analyze whether an experimental approach, which enriches the training offer with a sports laboratory, can be an effective pedagogical strategy capable of improving the level of well-being of students. In this regard, at the primary school level, a didactic laboratory activity on water polo was provided and, through the QBS-B questionnaire, the change in the level of school well-being perceived by students from the “pre” Laboratory to the “Post” period was assessed, also in relation to a control group that has not adopted this experimental variant, continuing with the traditional training offer.Qualsiasi contesto ambientale che preveda interazioni socio-relazionali ha insito in se stesso la sfida nella creazione di uno stato di benessere per tutti gli individui che lo compongono. Tale concetto assume ancor più rilievo se riferito ai contesti formativi formali che accolgono allievi giovanissimi come quello della Scuola Primaria, dove la crescita formativa non può prescinderedalla presenza del benessere scolastico. Scopo del presente contributo è illustrare il concetto di benessere scolastico per poi analizzare se un approccio sperimentale, che arricchisce l’offerta formativa con un laboratorio sportivo, possa risultare un’efficace strategia pedagogica in grado di migliorare il livello di benessere degli studenti. A tal proposito, a livello di scuolaprimaria, è stata erogata un’attività didattica laboratoriale sulla pallanuoto e attraverso il questionario QBS-B si è valutato il cambiamento del livello di benessere scolastico percepito dagli studenti dal periodo “pre” Laboratorio a quello “Post”, anche in relazione ad un gruppo controllo che non ha adottato tale variante sperimentale proseguendo con la tradizionale offerta formativa.&nbsp

Stimolare la formazione educativa nella scuola attraverso lo sport: un progetto didattico sperimentale

The training of young people through learning the main educational values that build tomorrow’s adults should be the main objective of any school context. Motor and sports sciences, especially for younger students, can represent one of the tools capable of satisfying this educational need. In this regard, the paper presents itself as a fundamental contribution for didactic action in the field of motor and sports education, understood as a dimension of absolute importance in the field of pedagogical sciences of a special and experimental nature. The experimental proposal object of this research work investigates the educational potential of an innovative didactic approach of a motor and sports nature in primary school in order to demonstrate the importance of the discipline narrative in the pedagogical action carried out by the Italian school system.La formazione dei giovani attraverso l’apprendimento dei principali valori educativi che costruiscono gli adulti di domani dovrebbe essere il principale obiettivo di qualsiasi contesto scolastico. Le scienze motorie e sportive, soprattutto per gli allievi più piccoli, possono rappresentare uno degli strumenti in grado di soddisfare tale necessità educative. Al riguardo, il paper si presenta quale contributo fondamentale per l’azione didattica nel campo dell’educazione motoria e sportiva intesa quale dimensione di assoluto rilievo nel campo delle scienze pedagogiche di natura speciale e sperimentale. La proposta sperimentale oggetto di questo lavoro di ricerca indaga il potenziale educativo di un approccio didattico innovativo di natura motoria e sportiva nella scuola primaria al fine di dimostrare l’importanza di tale disciplina nell’azione pedagogica svolta dal sistema scolastico italiano

Motion analysis in sport training: the link between technology and pedagogy

Sport is an increasingly popular phenomenon among people probably due to the parallel evolution of the methods of development of physiological, technical and strategic capacities. People who play sports have learned to pay more and more attention to the loads they put on their bodies. This is because it is know that excessive loads during workouts can increase the risk of injuries. As the benefits of sport activity manifest themselves in many fields like in disability, in the presence of clinical pathologies, for recovery prison and especially in schools, it cannot be considered as simple gymnastics, since it involves physical, psychological, and cultural aspects and for these reasons we now increasingly speak of sport pedagogy. Many definitions have been proposed for the word training but all of them are almost always incomplete. This because training is to be understood as a complex pedagogical process in which various factors come into play such as, for example, motor, physical, technical, tactical but above all psychological, neurobiological and social factors. The aim of training is to describe, quantify and evaluate human movement. The analysis of human movement provide information about different aspects of a specific motor task (such as walking, jumping and running), through measuring instruments like cameras or sensors. These allow to obtain quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the observed sport gesture. The purpose of this review is to analyse how the motion analysis, through its different technologies, can help in the description and characterization of sport and training intended as pedagogical processes

Technology and sport for health promotion: A bibliometric analysis

The world of sport is continually changing and the use of technology is one of those areas that has made an impact on many sports and on health promotion. The aim of this work is to establish, through a bibliometric analysis, whether and how technology can change the way of doing sport, favouring health promotion. The study develops a bibliometric overview of all the journals that are currently indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database in any of the categories connected health-technology-sport research. The research has studied the influential concepts and themes in the field of health promotion through technological innovations in sport. The analysis was conducted using the frequency of keywords and citations from the articles published between 2000 and 2018. The work identifies the leading journals in health research through a bibliometric approach. The analysis shows a deep overview of the results of health journals. It is worth noting that many journals have entered the WoS database during the last years, in many cases to fill some specific niche that has emerged in the literature, although the most popular ones have been in the database for a long time