Didactics and Movement Learning in Documents on Physical Education and Sport in Lower Secondary School in Italy

Abstract

In recent years, physical education and sport in Italian school is in evolution. In one hand the complex system of
ministerial education is described in documents continuously updated and the school's secondary lower school has been
reformed. In the other hand, new discoveries about how the mind works and the relationship to mechanisms of the movement
have changed the scenario of scientific theories in educational psychology, so the role of physical activity in the learnings is
focused by didactics. The aim is to identify if in ministerial documents on lower secondary school on physical education and
sport if there is the new scientific basis of movement and the relating didactics. Method is made by two approaches that joins in
a specific new integrated one. Theoretical-argumentative approach about scientific paradigms on motor control and its learning
and historical-documentary approach about the ministerial documents on teaching activities. Deductive approach on motor
control and learning paradigm applied on ministerial documents. Results do not carry out any particular aspects connected to the
new neurological theories applied motor control and learning. All ministerial documents does not provide any reference of motor
imagery, open loop, closed loop and didactics of movement. In conclusions the data are in opposite way to update regulation
documents according to new scientific evidences. It may be useful to deepen further the study and deliver the results to the
governmental experts for the necessary updates to fill up the vacuum.