Andrea Ceciliani

Dr. Andrea Ceciliani

Born in Terni (Italy) 17/4/1957, has achieved the following titles of study:

• He graduates in Physical Education ISEF (Physical Education Institute) in Bologna (Italy), in date 18/07/1979 with votes 110 and praise.
• He has obtained the specializaton for he teaching to the disable persons, Italian Ministry for Education - Provincial Scholl Office in Bologna (Italy), in date 20/06/1990 with votes 30/30
• He graduates in “Exercise and Sport Sciences” – obtained at University of Bologna (Italy), date 04/12/2000, with votes 110 and praise.
  

Commissioner qualified for National Qualification procedures (ASN) in the competition sector 11/D2 (teaching, special pedagogy and educational research).

Pro-veritate expert in National Qualification procedures (ASN) in the 11/D2 competition sector.

Institutional positions

• Member of the Doctoral Board (DOT 228K327) in Sport, Health and Wellbeing of the Department of Sciences for Quality of Life – University of Bologna.
• Member of the National Doctoral Board (DOT228K3ZT) in Learning Sciences and Digital Technologies – UNIMORE - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
• Director of the Qualification Course for teaching Sports Science in first (A049) and second (A048) secondary schools, for the Teacher Training Center of the University of Bologna.
• Coordinator of Erasmus Exchanges with University College of South-Eastern Norway, in reference to students of degree courses in Sports Sciences.
• Safety trainer (mandatory Module 3), for the University of Bologna, of students and teachers belonging to all three-year and master's degree courses in Sports Science, both at the Bologna site and at the Rimini Campus.
• UNIBO TOLC contact person (entrance test to degree courses in Sports Sciences) for both the Bologna campus and the Rimini Campus.
• Member of the International Research Center on Global Citizenship Education (IRC-GloCEd) - University of Bologna Department of Sciences for Quality of Life.
• Member of the Research and Training Center on Outdoor Education. University of Bologna Department of Sciences for the quality of life.
• Member of the Master Scientific Committee on Outdoor Education.
• President of the three-year degree course in Physical and Sports Activities Sciences, both at the Bologna campus and at the Rimini Campus, for the three-year academic period 2016-2019, reconfirmed for the three-year period 2019 - 2022.
• SSIS Coordinator - University of Bologna (Specialization School for Secondary Teaching) in the competitive sector A030 and A029 - Sports Sciences in secondary schools, in the academic years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 until the closure of the SSIS.
• Director of the Higher Education Course for in-service teachers, organized by the Alma Mater Studiorum Foundation of Bologna and the MIUR, on the theme of "Didactics for skills", held in Rimini in the 2006/07 academic year.

National and international assignments

• Member of the scientific-educational staff of the "Scuola Attiva Infanzia" project (Emilia Romagna pilot project), created by Sport e Salute SpA in collaboration with MIM (Ministry of Education and Merit) and the Emilia Romagna Region in the 2023-2024 school year. This project will become national in the academic year. 2024-2025.
• Principal Investigator and teacher trainer, in the Active Breaks in Schools that Promote Health project in collaboration with the AUSL Romagna. In this context he trained teachers of various school levels in the districts of Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini-Riccione. AY 2023-2024.
• Scientific manager and co-creator of the "Movimparo" site, in collaboration with the MeMo (Documentation and Teacher Training Center) of Modena, for the collection and dissemination of educational experiences and projects carried out at the 0-6 educational institutions.
• Member of the Expert Commission for the Design of the National Museum of Artistic Gymnastics - Municipality of Forlì. 2021/2022
• Component Member of the National School Commission of the Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP).
• Member of the Master Thesis Commission SUPSI – Department of Training and Learning Basic Education – Locarno (CH) Piazza San Francesco 19. AY 2021/2022 – 20223/2023 -2023/2024.
• Principal Investigator of the research unit of the University of Bologna (Department of Sciences for the Quality of Life), within the Eumove Erasmus+ Project together with other European partners (University of Castilla la Mancha, Universidad de Cadiz, Universitè Cote d' Azur, Universidad de LIsboa, Ulster University). AY2021/2022 – 2022/2023
• Teacher at the Regional Sports School of CONI (Italian Olympic Commetee) Emilia Romagna Region.

Specific university teaching

• Teacher of Technical Theory and Teaching of motor activity for the developmental age at the Motor Science courses of the Department of Sciences for Quality of Life at the University of Bologna both in Bologna site and in the Rimini Campus, since AY 2003/ 2004 to present.
• Teacher of Methodology and Teaching of physical activity at the single-cycle degree courses in Primary Education Sciences at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna from 2015/2016 to present.
• Teacher of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activity at the Motor Science courses of the Department of Sciences for the Quality of Life, of the University of Bologna, in the Campus of Rimini from 2018/2019 to present.
• Teacher in the 1st level University Master's Degree in Outdoor Education. Educate and Learn in, with and for the Environment. Faculty of Educational Sciences - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia branch. 07/12/2024: Game and Movement between in and out.
• Teacher at the 1st level Master's degree in Outdoor Education of the QUVI Department of the University of Bologna. Body and movement in Outdoor Education.

Specific teaching by the Ministry of Instruction

• Teacher of Physical Education at the State Secondary Schools of the first and second level from the school year 1979/80 to the school year 2002/2003
• Deputy Headmaster, with exemption from teaching, at the Righi Scientific High School in Bologna, in the 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 school years.

Trainer experiences

• He carries out and has carried out consultancy and training for educators and teachers in service in nursery and primary schools of various Italian Municipalities (Departments of Education and/or Sport) on the theme of education through the body/movement and on the theme of the outdoors education: Bologna, Foligno, Genoa, Modena, Ravenna, Scandicci (Fi), Zola Predosa (B0).
• He carries out and has carried out training for nursery and primary school teachers and sports operators, on the topics of body/movement education, inclusion, Outdoor Education, with various Cooperatives, Associations and School Institutions on the regional and national territory: CPT Rimini, Coop. Millepiedi Rimini, Domus Assistenza Modena, Coop. Mediando Modena, CRESCI@MO Modena, CSV Reggio Emilia, FSMA – Fondazione Scuola Materna Autonoma (Mi), CGFS (Youth Sports Training Center) Prato, CENTOFORM Ferrara, IC Paglieri di Fossano (Cn), DD 1 Circolo Domodossola.
• He carries out and has carried out training for teachers, health workers and sports educators with the AUSLs of Bologna, Forli-Cesena, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rimini.
• He carries out and has carried out training with the CONI Emilia Romgna Sports School for technicians of the various National Sports Federations.
• Teacher trainer in the school years from 2015/16 to 2017/18, of the courses for primary and nursery school teachers organized by the SdS CONI Emilia Romagna in collaboration with the Regional School Office of the Italian Ministry of Education, Provincial Office of Physical Education of Bologna.
• Teacher trainer from 2014 to 2018 for the Sports Educator courses organized by the CONI Emilia Romagna Sports School in collaboration with the Regional School Office of the Ministry of Education, Provincial Office of Physical Education of Bologna.
• He trained primary school teachers at the Education Department of the Republic of San Marino in the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 school years.
• Teacher trainer in the school years from 2015/16 to 2017/18 of the courses for primary and nursery school teachers organized by the School

He is Full Professor at the Department for Quality Life Sciences- Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, in the Scientific Disciplinary Sector M-EDF/01 (Methods and didactics of motor activities).

He is teacher of TTD of motor activity for the developmental age at the School of Pharmacy, Biotechnology and Motor Sciences, both in Bologna and Rimini campus and in the courses of Primary Education Sciences of Bologna.

She is involved in research in the field of motor development in childhood, play and the influence of movement on emotional aspects in childhood, preventive and postural aspects in childhood. He studies different pedagogical strategies including Cooperative Learning and Outdoor Education and Learning.

He has been a Teacher of Physical Education from 1979 to 2003 in Public School Institutions.

He has been assistant school headmaster from, 2001 to 2003 in a high school.

He has collaborated with ISEF of Bologna (High Institute of Physical Education), from 1983 to 2001, as a teacher of Theory, Technique and Didactic of Physical Education and Sport” .

He is a member of the Teaching Board of the Doctoral Program in Sciences and Culture of Wellness and Lifestyles (DOT1703795) from 2017 to present, previously, from 2011 to 2017,  member of the Unibo Doctoral Program (SOG0403935 - DOT0403935) of Research titled "Pharmacological and Toxicological Sciences, Human Development and Movement.

Member of the Directive Board  of the following scientific societies:

- SIEMeS (Italian Society for Motor and Sport Education).

- SIREF (Italian Society Educational and Formative Research)

Co-creator and scientific director of the site MOVIMPARO http://memoesperienze.comune.modena.it/movimparo/index.html Site dedicated to educational experiences 0-6 years in the body-movement and Outdoor Education. MEMO (Educationa Multicenter Modena "Sergio Neri") Structure of the Education Sector of the Municipality of Modena, recognized as a service and consulting center for autonomous school institutions in Emilia Romagna (Regional recognition).

Member of the International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education (IRC-GloCEd) - University of Bologna Department of Sciences for Quality of Life.

Member of the Research and Training Centre on Outdoor Education. University of Bologna Department of Sciences for the Quality of Life.

He has been member of the Ministerial Commission of MIUR (Education) for the definition of the Guidelines of Physical Education, Motor Activities and Sport, in all school levels.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the School Area of the Olympic Committee Emilia Romagna (CONI) School of Sport.

He is coordinator of the Erasmus mobility with the University of Telemark in Norway.

He has been  member of the Ministerial Commission of the MINISTRY of EDUCATION  to the definition of guidelines for physical education, physical activities and sports, in all orders of school.

He is consultant and teacher of the Regional School Office (Ministry of Education) for the updating of the primary school teachers in the context of the Physical Education and for the updating of Physical Education teachers of Secondary School.

He is consultant and teacher of the Council of Modena (Office of the Education: policies for children and the adolescence, university's relationships) for the training of the Teachers of Infancy School on the topic of Physical Education and Outdoor Education.

He is teacher of the CONI Regional School of Sport (Italian Olympic National Committee) for the training of the educational and technical staff of F.N.S. (Sports National Federations).

His research field refers to the development of abilities and skills in evolutionary age (with particular attention to the children's play observation), to preventive and posture aspects in evolutionary age and the effects of the pedagogical strategies (Outdoor Education and Learning, Cooperative Learning, Competence or Performance didactics approach) on the emotional and motivational aspects.

He has taken part, as speaker, in the following national and international events:

• 2024 – Turin Book Fair – Stand of the Ministry of Education and Merit (MIM) report for Sport e Salute S.p.A entitled: Outdoor Education, living your body and movement. Turin Lingotto 05/09/2024.
  
  
• 2024 – Speaker at the Faculty of Educational Sciences Seminar – Department of Pedagogy – Courses of Studies in Exercise and Sport Sciences – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. Seminar title: Playing to grow, growing by playing. Title of the report: Play, what I want to do, the pleasure of the process. 12/04/2024.
  
  
• 2024 Speaker and Chairman at the SIPED National Conference (Italian Society of Pedagogy): Transformative educational practices and emancipatory processes. Siena 22-23 February 2024 – Panel 4S, group H.
  
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• 2023 – SIPED National Conference (Italian Society of Pedagogy): Educational systems, Orientation, Work. Session TP7-Inclusion, paths to autonomy (self-determination), planning and work. Report on: The limit that limits is within us. Opening up to diversity for the inclusion of everyone. Bologna 02/03/2023.
  
  
• 2023 – University of Ferrara. Department of Humanistic Studies. Educational conference in the CdS area L-19. Report on: Play and movement at the nursery. Online, 04/13/2023.
  
  
• 2022 - . SUPSI-DFA CH- Locarno. Congress 2022: Network for Teaching Physical and Sports Education – Bellinzona (CH). Agreement n.5162. . Report on: Inclusion and diversity. GiocoAnchIo: Include in physical education and sport. 18-19/08/2022 Bellinzona (CH).
  
  
• 2022 - INDIRE-DIDACTA at the fair. From active pauses to dynamic pauses: Learning through movement. Report on: From active breaks to school on the move. Florence, Fortezza da Basso, 05/21/2022.
  
  
• 2022 – Italian Hygiene Society Conference: Active breaks: an intervention strategy against sedentary lifestyle for schools that promote health. Comparing experiences. Exercise Sciences for Health working group (GSMS). Report on: Active breaks in school: teachers' perception. Foro Italico University – Rome 02/19/2022.
  
  
•  2022 – XIII SISMES National Congress (Italian Society of Exercise and Sports Sciences) OP4 Physical Education, oral presentation on: Effect of an active breaks intervention in terms of classroom behavior: results from an ad hoc questionnaire for Italian's teachers enrolled in 2921 vs 2022. Milan, 05/11/2022.
  
  
• 2021 – XII SISMES National Congress (Italian Society of Exercise and Sports Sciences. Oral presentation OP47: Erasmus Sport Plus Eumove Project: Results from teacher's focus groups to outline a learning unit about healthy lifestyle. Padua, 08/10/2021
  
  
•  2021 Research in Sports Sciences in Italy. Seminar at the Doctoral Course in Personal and Training Sciences, “Education” address. At the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Catholic University of Milan. 05/18/2021.
  
  
• 2021 - CONI (Italian National Olympic Commettee) National Seminar Youth sports training. Towards a methodological organizational model. Report on: specialization in youth sports. Key concepts and elements. 11/27/2021 Modena.
  
  
• 2021 – Montebelluna Sports Festival (TV) – Report on: Creativity in motion. Montebelluna, 6-11 September 2021.
  
  
• 2018 Participation, as speaker, in the National Seminar "PAD Designing Schools together between pedagogy, architecture and design". Title of the report: Experiencing the Choir in space-time”. (21/03/2018) Free University of Bolzano. Proft 3190/18/dheifer.
  
  
• 2018 Participation, as a speaker, in the SIPED National Conference. Title of the report: Body, Movement and Sport as frameworks for the inclusion of the person. (03/23/2018).
  
  
• 2017 Participation as a speaker at the SIEMeS (Italian Society of Motor and Sports Education) National Conference: “Pedagogy and Motor Sciences. The epistemological reasons for a relationship". Presentation title: The pedagogical value of physical activity and gaming in schools. (05/05/2017).

• 2016, 8th Conference Youth Sport University of Ljubljana, 9th-10th December Ljubljana (Slovenia). Oral presentation about: Extensive and intensive multilateral activities as necessary integration in Physical Education in Primary School: an example in kinaesthetic differenziation ability.
• 2016, National Conference  Educationa Festival City of Turin:Educational Connection.The change and the construction of knowledge. Italian Ministry of University and research.  University of Turin, 23th -27th November. Presentation about: Outdoor Education and embodied cognition in preschool children.
• 2016, International Summer School Sportmeet :"You and Sportmeet for nature", 14th -  17th of July in  Križevci (Croatia). Presentation about: Outdoor Education, motivi ed elementi qualificanti del “fare scuola” all’aperto.

• 2015 National Conference CAPDI (physical education Teachers association) in collaboration with University of Bologna and SISMES: The student welfare: from science to physical education. Report on: Cooperative  Learning and Outdoor Education: examples from the school. Friday, March 7, 2015 c/o  Sabin-Bologna
  
  
• 2014 AIPS Congress (Italian Association Sport Psychology) “Tradition and innovation: challenges for sport and exercise psychology”  Rovereto (TN) 23-25 maggio 2014.  Oral presentation: Prejudice toward disabled persona in school and sport environment  

•  2013 Outdoor Education Conference: Safe Education Outdoor.  Promoted by University of Bologna, Dep. Of Psychology, Dep. sf Quality Life Sciences, and Municipality of Bologna. Comunication on: “Running, throwing, jumping: the children's need of movement and the adult's reason. 16 November 2013 – Testoni Theater  Bologna

• 2013      Rimini Wellness Conference 2013 organized by Uni.Rimini, UNIBO and Rimini Wellness named: "Young people and physical activity, a simple solution for wellness ". In this context, he presented a report entitled "The digital sedentary person: young people and Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport".

• 2012 Erasmus Programme of Teaching Assignment in the University of Telemak (Norway) - Faculty of Culture, Art and Physical Education - Nottonden Campus, September 18-23. Lecture on: The Sitting Child. problems related to the P.E. for the children of the contemporary society.
  
  
• 2012 XIX National AIPS (Italian Association Sport Psychology) Congress: The motor and sporting behavior between research and work on the field. University of Verona (Italy), May 24-26. Oral Presentation: Parents' motivational orientation and social adaptations in young soccer players.
  
  
• 2012 National Conference "The decipherable complexity", Scientific Initiative organized by the University of Salerno (Italy) on April 20th and promoted by SIREM (Italian Society of Research on Multimedia Education). Session E. Oral Presentation: The need of movement denied in the Italian society.
  
  
• 2010 Erasmus Programme of Teaching Assignment in the University of Rioja (Spain) - Faculdad de Letra y de le Educacion. September 24-30. Lecture on: "The prevention in the youthful sport".
  
  
• 2010 XVIII National AIPS (Italian Association Sport Psychology) Congress: Sport and exercise psychology between performance and health. University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). Oral Presentation: Motor Activity and social behavior in children aged 8-10 years.
  
  
• 2010 5th international Congress Youth Sport, Ljubliana University Sport Faculty, 2-4 December 2010. oral presentation: "Growth, weight status and motor performance in Italian primary school children".
  
  
• 2009 European Conference on Educational Research University of Vienna, 28-30 September: Theory and Evidence in European Educational Research. Oral Presentation: Cooperative Physical Education and Socialization in Primary School.
  
  
• 2009 International Conference "Sport and childhood", organized by Alma Mater Studiorum University o Bologna (Italy) - Department of Education, Faculty of Exercise and Sport Sciences - CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) 05/0672009. Oral Presentation: "Parents and sport, a balance to be found".
  
  
• 2008 European Conference on Educational Research, University of Gotehnburg, 10-12 September: From Teaching to Learning. Oral Presentation: An ecological study of children outdoor free play in pre-primary school.
  
  
• 2008 ARAR (Association of Research and Updating in Rehabilitation), Medicine and Sport Congress organized with Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy). May 13th. Oral Presentation: "When the sport hurts: preventive aspects in youth sport".
  
  
• 2008 Rimini Wellness Congress, FMSI Emilia Romagna Region (Italy), May 16th. Oral Presentation: "Physical Education, research and educational innovation".
  
  
• 2007 International Conference "Childhood educational care between services and families", organized by Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy) - Department of Education, October 17th. Oral Presentation: To play with care.
  
  
• 2007 International Scientific Conference Sport Kinetics 2007, University of Belgrade, August 24-26. New Ideas in Fundamentals of Human Movement and Sport Science: current issues and perspective, Belgrade. Poster Presentation: Free play observation in children aged 3 and 5.
  
  
• 2006 European College of Sport Sciences 11th Annual Congress, Lausanne (Swiss). Organized by University of Bern, University of Lausanne, Ecole Politechnique Fedérale de Lausanne and the Swiss Society of Sport Medicine. Oral Presentation: Analysis between decompensated global muscular stretching and proprioception activity in the posture and balance control.
  
  
• 2006 National Conference "Pedagogical and cultural identity of the school", organized by University of Trento (Italy) with Encyclopaideia Study Center. Session 5 "Body figures in pedagogical theatre".
• 2005 International Scientific Conference Sport Kinetics, Rimini (Italy) September 16-18 Oral Presentation: "Didactics of the learning at sight in school and sport environment".
  
  
• 2004 National Conference "Physical Education and Multisports Between Play and Education", organized by Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy) Faculty of Exercise and Sport Sciences and CONI Regional School of Sport. Oral Presentation: The Multisport intervention in primary school and in the youth sport center".