The course aims to focus on motor activity and disability by emphasizing and deepening the importance of recreational and motor activity in different contexts for different age groups, recognizing its educational and training value for the development of intellectual potential, affective and relational of the Person.
Corporeity plays a vital role in learning and socialization processes and  in the development  of personality through self-knowledge and awareness of one’s own resources. The objective is to analyse game, motor activity and disability, focusing on its fundamental components:bodily, expressive, communicative, relational and operative as functions of a person’s psychophysical development and  consolidating correct and healthy life-styles. The course aims at analyzing motor themes linked to other areas of personality, to school and to the teacher’s role in the building up and development of identity, of the acquisition of autonomy and of pupils’ skills also assisted by workshop didactics to enhance the active dimension of learning. Study in depth the culture of movement with the building up of the person as the centre of attention through cognitive, social, emotional experiences in relationship to self and to others and to the environment. An inclusive movement pedagogy.

Motor skills and disabilities:

   *     Game history

-  Videogames: game play in the 3rd millenia

-  Game right and System

-  Game and Animation

-  Game and Social Activities: scientific reports and reviews

-  Motor activity and disability

*   The Drezancic method

-  History of a method

- I° II° III° IV° programme

None.

Regarding the subject in hand  the student must show they have:
- acquired the basic theoretical and technical knowledge taught;
- understood advanced concepts: hypotheses, teaching  formulations;
- ability to use their knowledge and concepts in order to autonomously work out problems through planning and applying teaching sequences. 

Knowledge and understanding

- Knowledge of game theory and social activities;
- knowledge of the main elements of movement and motor activity for disability;
- ability to distinguish and compare the fundamental features of the curriculum, planning and design guidelines, teaching strategies, group leadership.

Applying knowledge and understanding

- Knowledge and understanding of theories and concepts provided by the course;
- ability to propose and evaluate didactic solutions through workshops. 

Making judgements

- Ability to identify appropriate research methods in different contexts;
- ability to conceive learning units and lesson plans for different user targets;
- ability to select the most appropriate teaching strategies, evaluate events, and identify the key issues to the formative success.

Communication skills

- Know all the techniques that can enhance communicative, intellectual and learning skills;
- ability to read and interpret nonverbal communication;

- ability to develop corporal expression.

Learning skills

- Ability to analyze and evaluate researches and motor projects conducted in school environment critically, in their fundamental methodological aspects;
- ability to investigate issues related to different educational contexts (school and extracurricular) independently.

-  Ability to research new educational-movement and didactical resourses also using other languages (videogame).

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Monothematic seminars entitled:

1) Motor activity in a natural environment

2) Fair Play, ethics, sporting loyalty

held by Prof. Ario Federici

Teaching

Lectures, use of PowerPoint. Group and individual bibliographic research, analysis of material. Discussion on specific topics, partecipated lessons with didactic exemplifications, conceptual maps.

Monothematic seminars also in synchronous mode, held by professionals (teachers, educators, support teachers, instructors) with final feedback shared in a small group work conducted by the teacher in the classroom. 

Innovative teaching methods

- Bring your own device (BYOD): use of students' personal mobile devices (computers, smartphones, tablets) for bibliographic searches, abstracts, keywords, on the specific topic of the lesson and related discussion;
- Construction of a digital glossary: attending ERASMUS students; in particular in the first lessons, group searches of bibliographic material (articles, documents) concerning the topic of the lesson, in the student's language to facilitate it, explaining the specific terminology, the vocabulary in Italian by formulating a glossary in two languages, in particular of teaching terms / keywords (also useful for Italian students in memorizing words in a different language, for example Spanish because there are different ERASMUS Spanish students enrolled in the course).

Attendance

The course does not require compulsory attendance.

Course books

- M. Valentini, C. Tonini Cardinali, Gioco, attività motoria, disabilità. Per una pedagogia del movimento, Edizione Anicia, Roma, 2021 (tot. pagine 445). 

- M. Valentini, A. Federici, La parola ai sordi, Ed. Anicia, Roma, 2019 (tot. p. 132).

Assessment

Oral examination.

The expected objectives are verified through an oral test.

The evaluation criteria are as follows:

- Relevant and effective answers in relation to the contents of the program; - level of mastery of knowledge; - adequacy of disciplinary vocabulary and terminological precision; - relevant application of methodologies, techniques, tools; - articulation of the answer.

Each of the criteria is evaluated based on a judgment four-level scale, with equal importance assigned to each criterion. The final evaluation is expressed in thirtieths.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.

Teaching

Non-attending students will be able to consult the didactic material uploaded on Moodle blended.uniurb.it through which it will be possible to further study the volumes indicated in the “Study Texts” section, articles with the key words of the discipline.

Attendance

The course does not require compulsory attendance.

Course books

- M. Valentini, C. Tonini Cardinali, Gioco, attività motoria, disabilità. Per una pedagogia del movimento, Edizione Anicia, Roma, 2021 (tot. pagine 445). 

- M. Valentini, A. Federici, La parola ai sordi, Ed. Anicia, Roma, 2019 (tot. p. 132).

Assessment

Oral examination.

The expected objectives are verified through an oral test.

The evaluation criteria are as follows:

- Relevant and effective answers in relation to the contents of the program; - level of mastery of knowledge; - adequacy of disciplinary vocabulary and terminological precision; - relevant application of methodologies, techniques, tools; - articulation of the answer.

Each of the criteria is evaluated based on a judgment four-level scale, with equal importance assigned to each criterion. The final evaluation is expressed in thirtieths.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.