Università Roma Tre

- Child’s right to play: from International Declarations to the experienced or neglected right.
- Body scheme and developmental stages, postural patterns and fundamental movement skills.
- Motor abilities, coordivative and conditional abilities, sensitive phases.
- Link between motor ability and motor skill.
- Physical activity and developmental age.
- From the promotion of the development of the moving body to the education to citizenship - A four-pillar model: physical fitness, motor coordination, cognition and creativity, life skills.
- The value of early diversification in education through movement and sport experiences: multi-sports, multi-laterality, and variability of practice. Prescriptive and heuristic approaches to motor/sport learning and spectrum of reproductive to productive teaching styles; exercising the process of production of creative solution to motor problems.
- Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: how to structure activity breaks, interdisciplinary learning activities and social integration activities through movement in the classroom and in the gym.
- The role of an environment that is conducive to physical activity to bridge spontaneous play, deliberate play and deliberate practice.
- Toward an education centered on the active child: a multisectoral ecological model.
- Adapted motor activities for special populations.
- Methods and teaching (exercise and deliberate play) to promote the development of physical fitness for health.
- Methods and teaching (exercise and deliberate play) to promote the development of fundamental movement skills, motor control and perceptual-motor adaptation abilities.
- Methods and teaching (exercise and deliberate play) to promote the development of executive cognitive function, motor creativity and creative thinking
- Methods and teaching strategies to promote the development of intrapersonal life skills (e.g., goal setting, problem solving) and interpersonal life skills (e.g., empathy, effective communication, cooperation, appreciation of diversity) and to satisfy the fundamental needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness.

Libro obbligatorio:
Pesce, C., Marchetti, R., Motta, A., & Bellucci, M. (2015). Joy of Moving – MoviMenti & ImmaginAzione. Giocare con la variabilità per promuovere lo sviluppo motorio, cognitivo e del Cittadino. Torgiano (PG): Calzetti-Mariucci.

Libro consigliato:
Marchetti, R., Bellotti, P., & Pesce, C. (2016). Insegnare la vita con il movimento e lo sport. Ovvero considerando il ragazzo che si muove pensiamo all’uomo che cresce.e si sviluppa…Le novità delle scienze del movimento lette insieme a voi. Torgiano (PG): Calzetti-Mariucci.