Attività Fisica e Sportiva: tra l’educazione della persona e le necessità per la salute

The European Union (EU) has identified the social and educational role of sport and physical activity as a key theme for research. The assumption is that European citizens are involved in a continuous learning process throughout their lives. In physical and sport education context, the role of teachers, trainers and instructors is the pivot around which the goal of lifelong learning. The cultural and professional barriers, unfortunately, between the roles of which the first and the lack of a thorough and well-developed knowledge base centered on pedagogical sciences, seems to be a serious impediment. The pedagogy of physical exercise and sport is proposed as an area of study, based on the educational aspects of the movement, interdisciplinary, located in an area sometimes known as “Sports and Exercise”, “Kinesiology”, “Human Movement Sciences”, “Science of Fitness”.