a- Free play observation in children aged 3 to 10, as a field of
educational experiences. In this field will be studied
didactics of PA, PE and Sport, educational care behavior in
teacher (PE) and trainer (sport).
b- Study on Outdoor Education and Learning
strategies and their correlation with cognitive, emotional and
motivational aspects in children and youth education.
c - Motor development analysis in children aged 6 – 14 correlated
with sport didactics. In this field of research will be analyzed
children posture development correlated with prevention
aspects, health and exercise.
The purpose of the proposed lines of reseach is to assess the
different aspects that affect the expression of children's play in
the free time and also in the early sport practice. In this
approach is essential the figure of the educator (teacher or
coach). The starting point is the expression of a child's free
play, his observation, the identification of the different elements
that compose it and the condition in which it's realized. Only with
this knowledge it's possibile to introduce in the youth sports
practice. The basic concept is to start from the childen's play to
arrive to the sport practice, not vice versa. In this context the
method and the tools of ecological research, we will explore some
aspects of spotanuous play highlighted in previous pilot studies.
The analysis of educational care must be clear in who, young and
less young, has the responsablity to guide children's education in
the first approach to the sport.
An other important line of research, close to the previous one,
concerns the use of the strategy of Outdoor Education and
Learning as an emergin field in children's education. In this
context we highlight interesting aspects related to the cognitive,
emotional and motivational development. The external
environmente becomes an important educational environment for the
current generation of young people. The age of the preprimary and
primary school is important to maintain this great need of
natural movement, in particular situations relegated to the
extesnal landscape and natural environment in which to measure the
confidence and self efficacy, the responsible autonomy, the
conscious learning experience and the confidence withe nature
(Biophilia) towards to sustinability education. In this context, we
develop research in collaboration with schools and other
educational agencies that oek with children and young
people.
Finally, the appearance of motor development,quantified by
measuring motor skills, postural development, strength development,
becomes a further moment of knowledge of the preventive aspects and
health in children and young people.
