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Salute, attività fisica e funzioni esecutive nei bambini da 3 a 5 anni. Le opinioni dei genitori. Health, physical activity and executive functions in 3-5 years old children. The opinions of the parents.
No full textEsiti di questionari rivolti a genitori di bimbi di 3-5 anni in merito all'attività fisica svolta a scuola e in famigli
Physical Activity in Preschool Children to Fight Obesity and Related Sleep Disorders
No full textSleep disorders are frequently associated to obesity, a major public health problem affecting adults as well as a large proportion of children in western countries. Unhealthy lifestyle habits and eating behavior, lack of physical activities are risk factors to develop obesity with consequences on quality of sleep. Despite children enjoy movement, sedentary behavior and lack of environmental opportunities for active play dominate in the preschool child day. Here we discuss the relationship between sleep, physical activity and health, with special interest on obesity. Providing appropriate conditions for children engagement in physical activities is mandatory in western Countries where social organization and cultural tradition limit the opportunities for movement. Improving acquisition of motor competences in children is a must that also involves health professionals as physical activity provides benefits on individual fitness levels and quality of sleep. In the following pages we will review the links connecting physical activity and obesity with sleep and related disorders. We will then focus on the recent evidences on the determinants of child motor development which provide the scientific rationale for educational interventions promoting quality of health and slee
Educare a muoversi in relazione all’altro...di un’altra specie in ambienti formali ed informali
No full textUn’esigenza profonda tipica dell’essere umano, che affonda le radici nell’ontogenesi, è la necessità di formare legami affettivi con la stessa specie e con specie diverse. Il legame affettivo uomo/animale non solo genera uno scambio empatico ma è anche un supporto alla salute e al benessere della persona. Questo rapporto, nel senso educativo più atavico, ci pone l’obbligo di dover comunicare permettendo di sviluppare una maggiore sensibilità emotiva
Outdoor movement education during COVID-19: What kindergarten teachers think
No full textDuring the lockdown physical activity had a decline. What is the status now? A questionnaire was
administered to 69 kindergarten teachers in 11 Italian regions to investigate the outdoor physical activity of
children. Twenty-six percent of them report that they implement activities in their school garden (67% have a
space larger than150 sqm) or park; 42% report that children engage in 3 to 7 hours of physical activity per
week, 51% from 1 to 2 hours per week, and 7% do no practice physical activity. In September-October 11%
of teachers never go outside, in November-December 22% and in March-June 15%. 52% of teachers believe
that children should not be taken outdoors because of cold, wind, or rain and 30% of parents agree that it is
better if children do not go outside. 76% of teachers say that it is important for children to have contact with
nature and 90% of teachers say that outdoor activities are not risky. Although teachers report that outdoor
activities are a resource for kindergarten the data do not support this
Design and teaching of physical education for children and youth
Full text linkThe reduction of physical activity is a phenomenon that affects the world population at all ages (childhood
and adolescence, adulthood and third age) whose effects do not only concern the predisposition to risk
factors for health but also more generally well-being and good individual bio-psycho-social functioning.
Sedentary lifestyle, unfortunately, no longer affects adults and the elderly, but it is an unhealthy habit that is
grafted more and more precociously, also extending to children and adolescents. In fact, during the
developmental age we observe alarming trends of involution of motor skills with a general trend of reduction
in the quality and quantity of movements in both children and adolescents; over the last fifty years,
unfortunately, the coordination of school-age children has regressed, manifesting itself with a significant delay
in the development of coordination especially in urban populations, as well as being affected by a serious
and widespread problem of overweight and obesity in age paediatric. This paper analyses some special
educational needs of movement during childhood and adolescence, even in the presence of disabilities, and
tracks the main teaching methods that enhance the body and movement and the sensory perceptive syste
Percezione-azione: il ruolo dell’educatore nella attribuzione d significato all’ambiente e al compito, con bambini di 5 anni
No full textL’acquisizione della competenza motoria dell’equilibrio è un processo di apprendimento che può essere facilitato o inibito dall’esperienza del bambino e/o dal comportamento dell’educatore.
Le esperienze di successo dei bambini, nella “barra con molle”, supportati in “zona di sviluppo prossimale”, modificando le affordances,
incrementano la motivazione ad apprendere, estendono i tentativi di camminare in equilibrio sulla barra anche durante il gioco libero, consolidano la competenza motoria dell’equilibrio
Prospettiva ecologica: importanza di ambiente e contesto nello sviluppo motorio dei bambini
No full textL’obiettivo dell’indagine è quello di individuare le teorie che guidano le pratiche educative delle educatrici degli asili nido. I risultati mettono in evidenza la scarsa considerazione interattiva dell’ambiente fisico e del contesto socio-relazionale per lo sviluppo motorio dei bambini. Le teorie che indirizzano le educatrici rispondono per lo più a criteri di “accoglienza-accudimento”, con concezioni di tipo biologico-maturazionale, che non considerano l’intreccio evolutivo a spirale di esperienza personale, relazioni sociali e ambiente fisico
How can the technology be integrated in Outdoor Movement Education for children and the youth with special needs?
No full textThe technological innovations of the last decade have caused countless changes to everyone's lifestyle, especially in the number of hours spent in front of a screen. These generational differences are even more marked if the new generations of students are taken into consideration, in fact, even at the school level, technological innovations have brought changes. Just as lifestyle and teaching have changed, what is considered as the "needs" of pupils and how they live and relate both in formal and informal environments have also changed. Considering the emergency period caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, greater attention has been paid to the importance of exercising and everyone has also re-evaluated the beauty and benefits of exercising outdoors. Outdoor Movement Education in this sense can be a key that allows the new generations to experience the emotions and sensations that can be felt during outdoor moving activities. This work is a reflection on how technology can be a tool to increase the benefits in Outdoor Movement Education considering children and youth with special needs. The results of this work have shown how the use of technology in Outdoor Movement Education brings numerous advantages both under the didactic profile (i.e., life skills) and with regard to the cognitive (i.e., attention and concentration), motor (i.e., motor skills, fundamental movement skills) and affective (i.e., enjoyment) domains of learning respectively
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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