Human Movement Theory and Methodology

· Acquisition of the basics of technical and methodological language for professional orientation in physical activity for promoting health, motor education and training, and teaching sports at various levels. Basic motor patterns, motor skills, secondary motor patterns: definition and terminology; classification; types; characteristics and relationships; best age/stage; applicability and interest in physical activity and sports
· Human movement: definition, function, forms, classification and planning. Planning and execution of movement
· Profile of the physical education instructor and sports trainer: education and training, prevention, conditioning; integration of scientific research into educator training; theoretical elements of methodological applications
· Aspects of human movement and control mechanisms: definition and terminology; classification, types; characteristics and relationships; applicability and interest in physical activity and sports
· Planning, and execution of movement. The tonic posture system: posture control and musculoskeletal component, multisensory control of posture; sensation, perception, perceptive learning
· Life span motor development: major theories on motor development and learning; characteristics of motricity according to age from birth to old age
· Sensorimotor, perceptivomotor, ideomotor activity: definition and terminology; sensory receptors in the processing, regulation, and control of movement; application and interest in physical education and sports; body image, laterality, lateralization
· Motor skills: definition; classification; differentiation and integration; levels and priorities for development; management of movement in sports (balance, information processing, reaction times, anticipation, differentiation; rhythm, combination, and adaptation)
· Muscular strength: definition and terminology; classification, types; limiting factors; muscle contraction in exercise; evolution, application, and interest in physical education and sports
· Endurance: definition and terminology; classification, types; limiting factors; evolution, application, and interest in physical education and sports
· Learning in physical activity and sports and teaching method; testing and evaluation; definition and terminology; classification, types; methods of observation, detection, and measurement of motor skills and specific motor patterns; applicability based on age, motor and sports ability, objectives
· Planning and development in physical activity and physical education: meaning and value of planning; planning in practice; applied and interpreted lessons; the reflective instructor: reflecting before and after a lesson; mid- and long-term planning; analysis of different types of planning (linear, individualized, differentiated, complex, flexible); challenge point: ways and strategies for dosing the learning load; knowing how to interpret the results (checking and evaluating learning); presentation of an example of planning: the cultural project and physical activity and multisport education; presentation of an example of an evidence-based physical activity project; The "safe falls - safe school" project
· Physical education yesterday, today, tomorrow: the meaning of movement across the ages and according to the major international schools of physical education that laid the foundations for physical education and sports education; origins of schools for physical education in Italy and major figures that characterized them from their origins to today; renewed physical education; culture, science, and reflective practice in response to the rapid changes in society
· Styles, strategies, forms, and methods of teaching: analysis and comprehension of the meaning of research in psychopedagogy and didactics: applied examples of commonly used classifications in international and national research; comparison between linear and non-linear pedagogy; integrated, intentional, flexible approaches for appropriate and complete education of movement and through movement; analysis of results from studies into different teaching styles
· Role, ethics, and didactic-social skills of physical activity and sports instructor: the characteristics of efficacious teaching and necessary teaching steps; key elements in successful teaching of physical activity; practical criteria for optimizing time in physical activity and exercises; types of participatory behavior and strategies for optimal group conduct; what to communicate and how to efficaciously transmit information about motor skills; instructor's code of ethics
· Paradigm of physical literacy: analysis of the social utility of physical literacy; contribution of physical activity and sports to cognitive development and learning at school, health, and social integration; analysis of a methodological-didactic pathway for the acquisition of a culture of human movement
· Recreational physical activity, games, play: characteristics, purpose of recreational physical activity, presentation of an example of a recreational physical activity project; the educational value of games/play; analysis of game/play theory (anthropological and ethological research; cathartic interpretation; games/play); diseducational play; sociomotor criteria for group and team formation; didactic criteria for the organization and management of games; criteria for the selection of games based on age and specific purposes; analysis of the essential organization of matches/championships involving multiple groups/teams