Scienze delle Attività Motorie e Sportive L-22 - Asti

The teaching contributes to the achievement of the educational objective of the course of study in Motor and Sport Activities Science and to provide basic knowledge of the motor and sport’s activity and its history, consistently deepening learning methods and strategies under both educational and sports, modulating them in accordance with the reference age groups.Through these tools, consistent with the professional profile of motor and sports activities, the student will be able to operate in public and private structures, in sports organizations and in recreational and social associations.The specific historical development analysis of physical education aims to understand the contemporary phenomenons and to build the needing skills for a vocational training which meets the needs of the current social context.

Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students shall demonstrate that they have understood which kind of tools and methods have to be employed to plan an appropriate motor and sport activity, referring properly to the particular historical events which have changed their implementation during the years.

Applying knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students shall demonstrate to be able to plan and create specific motor and sport activity programs in accordance with the reference age groups, modulating them on the gradualness principles with regard to age, gender and developing technology. Moreover they they shall be able to re-organize the information and to generalize them in accordance with the changed historical and social context.

Making judgement
At the end of the course, students shall demonstrate that they know how to use the acquired knowledge in a hypothetical-practical context and to transfer them into the different educational and sports disciplines, gathering the methodological-teaching connections and referring to the historical aspects.

Communication skills
At the end of the course, students shall demonstrate that they know the roles specificity and that they are able to communicate with all the figures which work in the motor and sport activity field, both amateurish and competitiveusing specific terminology.

Learning skills
At the end of the course, the learning consolidation shall be employed to create specific activity projects using the different acquired knowledge during the course and transferring them into the different fields of application of the motor and sport activity in the today historical-social level.

Due to the serious health emergency in progress and in compliance with the measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus infection, by way of derogation from what previously reported in this sheet, the teaching will be provided in alternative teaching methods (scenario 5  -integrated solution) using the Moodle platform through the E-Learning DBios website and with telematic meetings on the WebEx platform. Instructions for using the platform are available and accessible on the UniTo website.
The measures introduced are applied on a temporary basis until the end of the emergency situation related to COVID 19.

In particular, the teaching will be provided in the form of: 

1. Lessons and discussion on the program topics live online via webex platform.

- Prof. Basso - Link Webex:    https://unito.webex.com/meet/g.basso

-Prof.ssa Magno - link webex:    https://unito.webex.com/join/francesca.magno  

2. Recordings of webex lessons uploaded to the Moodle platform.

3. Video-recorded lessons covering the entire program uploaded to the Moodle platform.

Lessons and supplementary activities

1. selected readings provided on the Moodle platform;

2. online exercises for self-evaluation provided on the Moodle platform;

3. external in-depth videos on specific topics uploaded to the Moodle platform.

In relation to the Coronavirus emergency, the evaluation will be in written online supervised form (Moodle online platform in Webex connection). There will be an optional written test 'ongoing' at the students' request (Moodle online platform in Webex connectio6n).

The final exam will be both written. The written part is composed by 16 questions for the methodology module and 16 for the history module, they will be multiple choices with three options. The final mark will be the sum of the multiple choices (32 at the most equivalent to "30 cum laude" ). The written part is 15 minutes. The topics under final investigation will reflect the one discussed during the course and will refer to the teaching material provided during the course.The final mark will be the weighted average related to the CFU of the two modules.

Motor skills

Coordination and conditional skills

Differences between skills and abilities

Motor learning

Different learning: children, teenagers, adults and seniors; sports and non-sports peolple

The importance of communication 

Motivation-Previous experiences 

Information processing model

Learning strategies: Randomization, blocks and multilateralism 

Different styles and teaching strategies

Prof. Basso:

. Historic related to Sports Sciences;
. Historical, normative and scientific sources of Contemporary Sporting Sciences;
. Evolution of Sporting Sciences at national and international level;
. Scientific and Professional Institutions of Sporting Sciences;
. National and international context of sporting sport practice;
. Development of governance (IOC, IPC, CONI, CIP) of sporting practice;
. Development of sports driving practice in contemporary school context (UNESCO, MIUR)