Attività fisica e sportiva a scuola: tra l'educazione della persona e le necessità per la salute

Physical Education and Sport contribute to an integral development of the person, guide towards a healthy life status and generate both physical and psychological benefits. Thus it is fundamental to create the conditions to dedicate more time for physical activities of students in schools and besides the figure tutoring them should have appropriate competences to perform his task. In Italy there have been drawn up Renzi’ s Linea Guida and the project Sport di Classe proposing that a physical education teacher should be entered in elementary school as an expert on this discipline, with the task of developping programmes for prevention, physical health and sport. Furthermore there are in effect at the time the Italian National Guidelines on the topics (D.P.R. n. 254/2012), which promote an integral education of the person. So the discussion about the role of physical education is proposed again, which is a matter for debate since a long time ago, and is whether Physical Education is to be considered as a discipline of the body or a discipline of the person and whether it is necessary to aim for a global education of the person. Sport doesn’t only have goals associated mainly with physical and psychological health, but also it is a bearer of values of respect towards oneself and towards opponents, of equality, of brotherhood, of race integration and of peace.