Abstract
Primary schools have been targeted as privileged settings for the promotion
of healthy behaviours and habits for at least four reasons. Firstly, the concept
of “active health” lies on the assumption of being able to promote, and
consequently induce, an active lifestyle based on recurring physically active
habits from the developmental age; secondly, the age range between 6 and
11 is considered a “golden age” for an easier and facilitated learning of the
basic motor skills; thirdly, an intellectual-cognitive development and maturation
seem to be favoured and facilitated by physical activities and neurodidactic
experiences; fourthly, the development and diffusion of citizenship
skills can be easily found and/or implemented in movement games, which
can be targeted as ideal educational situations to promote the awareness of
the importance of rules as well as respect for others and social inclusion,
core values of the contemporary society. In the three scholastic years from
2015-16 to 2017-18 the Regional Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI)
has been designated by the Lombardy Regional Government to coordinate
and manage a project focused on the implementation of physical education
(PE) in primary schools in order to promote the development of four critical
areas: morphological-functional, affective, cognitive and social. This project
named “Lombardia in gioco: una scuola di sport”, in progress also in the
current school year (2018-2019), has seen the Università Cattolica del Sacro
Cuore of Milan acting as a leader and coordinator of five major Lombardian
universities (the University of Milan, the University of Brescia, the University
of Insubria of Varese, the University of Pavia). This paper aims to highlight
the positive outcomes and the effectiveness of the implementation of this
project based on motor and physical education in a primary school context*.
La scuola primaria
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Motor sports activities in primary school. The Lombardy project at stake |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 105-114 |
Numero di pagine | 10 |
Rivista | FORMAZIONE & INSEGNAMENTO |
Volume | 2019 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2019 |
Keywords
- Health education
- Motori and sport activities
- primary school
- well being