Università Roma Tre

Neuro-motor experience and experimentation is the basis of every maturation process and somatic, emotional, affective, relational and social growth. From the infinitely large external world, even before birth, the child uses the body to relate to himself and the world around him, making all possible sensorial experiences his own through emotions, engraving them in the infinitely small of his own neuronal synapses and therefore transforming them into neuro-motor learning.

By growing through sensorial experiences and therefore its own perceptive functions, the new individual is able to experience the surrounding environment, define its boundaries, possibilities and limits of action of its own body by communicating on a somato-psychic level with its own genome and allowing the epigenetic modulation of this as a phenotypic response to the motor and emotional stresses in which it grows.

With play (relationship with objects, the environment and people) and movement he achieves and perfects not only important skills such as balance, concentration, attention, physical abilities, but also awareness or one's own identity bodily (somato-aesthetic and somato-sensory) and therefore emotional-relational by acquiring awareness of one's own entity with and entering into communication with others.
The fundamental prerequisite of psychomotor education is the global consideration in childhood and adolescence, in a holistic dimension, of its mind-body unity and the understanding of the purpose of psychomotor action even in cases where physiological differences and defects exist. The program focuses on knowledge aspects and elements of anatomy and physio-pathology and movement disorders from childhood, adolescence and young adults according to the Biological Aesthetic Structural Model (MSEB, Villanova M., 2006).
Direct observation of the child. Embryo-foetal development and risk factors. Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Embryogenesis and Comparative Ethology of Motor Development.
Psychomotor delay. Cognitive development. Emotional development. Acquisition of the body schema. Body awareness. Genesis of the imitation of gestures. Memory. Game as a learning tool
Cognitive development according to J. Piaget. Dyspraxia. Hemispheric dominance. Lateralization alterations. Number and quantity concept.

TESTI CONSIGLIATI

VILLANOVA M: ”"Educazione psicomotoria"” Ed. La Sapienza, 2020
VILLANOVA M.: “Affiancamento educativo alle Sostanze di uso voluttario”, La Sapienza Editore, Roma 2021.