Presentazione e resoconto del progetto nazionale di formazione degli insegnanti delle scuole dell... more Presentazione e resoconto del progetto nazionale di formazione degli insegnanti delle scuole dell\ub4infanzia italiane. Viene illustrato il progetto e vengono riportati i risultati e le scuole dell\ub4infanzia, insegnanti e bambini delle regioni italane coinvolti
Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scie... more Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scientifiche
Educators and parents give great consideration to conditions/games that may improve cognitive abi... more Educators and parents give great consideration to conditions/games that may improve cognitive abilities of pupils whereas little attention is paid to the effects on motor behaviour. Aim of this study is to determine if/how space organization modulates physical activity levels in 3-5 years old children performing unstructured games.Ninety-nine children aged 3-5 ys of a nursery school were divided in small groups of homogeneous age and videorecorded while performing unstructured games for 30 min in an empty playroom. Each group was exposed to 4 different conditions where the only objects present in the room were: A) circles spread on the floor or B) piled; C) a pool filled with plastic balls placed in either the left or D) the right corner of the room. In each condition we measured movement by means of a pedometer and the time spent by each child: 1- running and/or walking without object manipulation; 2- manipulating the object; 3- standing with no activity. Sequence of exposure was: A \u2192C \u2192 B \u2192 D \u2192 A \u2192B. Interval between each condition was 15 days. Statistical analysis was performed by paired t Students test.The motor behaviour of the children was homogeneous as no statistical difference was observed between groups. In condition A children spend most of their time running/walking will little or none manipulation. In condition B children use circles for manual and symbolic games throughout all the time. No differences in motor behavior were noted between condition C and D. When children were re-exposed to condition A, the manual/symbolic behavior predominated over running/walking. The number of steps during each 30 min of testing was largest for condition A and lower for C and D.The data indicate that organization of playground modulates motor behaviour of children playing unstructured games, whereas selection of tools available to children and their mode of presentation influence the intensity of physical activity
The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement measures that disrupted the daily routines ... more The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement measures that disrupted the daily routines of many families worldwide. We studied how the COVID-19 lockdown affected children’s routines in Portugal (PT), Brazil (BR), and Italy (IT) to determine if children’s age and country impacted their physical activity (PA) and sedentary time. We launched an anonymous online survey to assess how 3–12 years old children adjusted their daily routines to this situation. Parents reported the times each child was engaged in different activities throughout the day, and we used these data to calculate separately overall sedentary and physical activity time. We conducted separate analyses of variance for age and country on the percentage of time spent in the different activities. Results, based on the data from 3045 children in these three countries (PT n = 2044; BR n = 836; IT n = 165), showed that, during lockdown, most children spent most of their awake daily hours in sedentary activities. There...
Epistemologia dell'attivit\ue0 fisica nell'infanzia secondo le recenti evidenze scientifi... more Epistemologia dell'attivit\ue0 fisica nell'infanzia secondo le recenti evidenze scientifiche. Progettazione di percorsi di educazione motoria per lo sviluppo di competenze motorie e finzioni esecutive nella scuola dell'infanzi
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Both the indoor and the outdoor environments and their organization exert pronounced influence up... more Both the indoor and the outdoor environments and their organization exert pronounced influence upon physical activity behavior and motor development of preschool children. The aim of this study was to explore whether partly structured activity or free play in a specific playground had different impacts on motor competence development in 4–6-year-old preschoolers. The study had a pretest–post-test design, with two intervention groups and one control. Sixty-two children were included in a partly structured activity group and forty-three children in a free-play group. Both groups participated in playground activities consisting of 10 sessions (once a week), each lasting 1 h, in a specific playground setting. For the partly structured activity group, activities in each session consisted of a combination of both structured and free activity while the free-play group were engaged in unstructured play only. The control group did not attend the playground activities (N = 36). To assess leve...
Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scie... more Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scientifiche
Lo sviluppo umano \ue8 un processo di ampliamento delle possibilit\ue0 umane che permette agli in... more Lo sviluppo umano \ue8 un processo di ampliamento delle possibilit\ue0 umane che permette agli individui di godere di una vita lunga e sana, di essere istruiti e di avere accesso alle risorse necessarie, a un livello di vita dignitoso, oltre a disporre di opportunit\ue0 politiche, economiche e sociali per sentirsi a pieno titolo membro della propria comunit\ue0 di appartenenza. Questo approccio allo sviluppo umano, proposto dall'economista Mahbub Ul Haq viene ampliato dalla teoria sviluppata dal premio Nobel Amartya Sen, che pone al centro del problema dello sviluppo il concetto di "capabilities" inteso come possibilit\ue0 dell'individuo di fare ci\uf2 che desidera, dal momento che la crescita economica da sola non si traduce automaticamente nello sviluppo umano. In un\u2019ottica di capacitazione i soggetti dello sviluppo diventano attori piuttosto che beneficiari. Nell\u2019articolo si affronta il tema di salute, benessere, povert\ue0 educativa e del ruolo attivo...
BackgroundLearning to cycle is an important milestone for children, but the popularity of cycling... more BackgroundLearning to cycle is an important milestone for children, but the popularity of cycling and the environmental factors that promote the development and practice of this foundational movement skill vary among cultures and across time. This present study aimed to investigate if country of residence and the generation in which a person was born influence the age at which people learn to cycle.MethodsData were collected through an online survey between November 2019 and December 2020. For this study, a total of 9,589 responses were obtained for adults (self-report) and children (parental report) living in 10 countries (Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Finland, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, Mexico, Croatia, and the Netherlands). Participants were grouped according to their year of birth with 20-year periods approximately corresponding to 3 generations: 1960–79 (generation X; n = 2,214); 1980–99 (generation Y; n = 3,994); 2000–2019 (generation Z; n = 3,381).ResultsA two-way ANOVA showe...
Cos'\ue8 la conoscenza? E' possibile conoscere? Attraverso quali fonti e modalit\ue0? Son... more Cos'\ue8 la conoscenza? E' possibile conoscere? Attraverso quali fonti e modalit\ue0? Sono alcune delle domande cui si cerca di rispondere in questo testo che si rivolge, in un linguaggio largamente accessibile, agli insegnanti, a chi si occupa di filosofia, e a coloro che desiderano avvicinarsi, anche per la prima volta, all'argomento. Si intraprende un percorso teorico-conoscitivo sul tema della conoscenza, ripercorrendo il pensiero di diversi filosofi, tra i quali Socrate, Platone, Aristotele, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Kant per giungere a J. Locke. John Locke viene presentato nel suo ambiente storico-politico-filosofico-culturale. Si seguono, attraverso il suo testo pi\uf9 importante, il Saggio sull'intelletto umano, gli sviluppi del suo pensiero per scoprire i "limiti e la natura dell'intelletto, cio\ue8 della facolt\ue0 conoscitiva umana". Attraverso questa ricerca Locke giunge ad affermare la necessit\ue0 di valori pratici, morali, religiosi per il consolidamento della libert\ue0, della dignit\ue0 umana e per meglio dirigere la propria vita
Presentazione e resoconto del progetto nazionale di formazione degli insegnanti delle scuole dell... more Presentazione e resoconto del progetto nazionale di formazione degli insegnanti delle scuole dell\ub4infanzia italiane. Viene illustrato il progetto e vengono riportati i risultati e le scuole dell\ub4infanzia, insegnanti e bambini delle regioni italane coinvolti
Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scie... more Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scientifiche
Educators and parents give great consideration to conditions/games that may improve cognitive abi... more Educators and parents give great consideration to conditions/games that may improve cognitive abilities of pupils whereas little attention is paid to the effects on motor behaviour. Aim of this study is to determine if/how space organization modulates physical activity levels in 3-5 years old children performing unstructured games.Ninety-nine children aged 3-5 ys of a nursery school were divided in small groups of homogeneous age and videorecorded while performing unstructured games for 30 min in an empty playroom. Each group was exposed to 4 different conditions where the only objects present in the room were: A) circles spread on the floor or B) piled; C) a pool filled with plastic balls placed in either the left or D) the right corner of the room. In each condition we measured movement by means of a pedometer and the time spent by each child: 1- running and/or walking without object manipulation; 2- manipulating the object; 3- standing with no activity. Sequence of exposure was: A \u2192C \u2192 B \u2192 D \u2192 A \u2192B. Interval between each condition was 15 days. Statistical analysis was performed by paired t Students test.The motor behaviour of the children was homogeneous as no statistical difference was observed between groups. In condition A children spend most of their time running/walking will little or none manipulation. In condition B children use circles for manual and symbolic games throughout all the time. No differences in motor behavior were noted between condition C and D. When children were re-exposed to condition A, the manual/symbolic behavior predominated over running/walking. The number of steps during each 30 min of testing was largest for condition A and lower for C and D.The data indicate that organization of playground modulates motor behaviour of children playing unstructured games, whereas selection of tools available to children and their mode of presentation influence the intensity of physical activity
The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement measures that disrupted the daily routines ... more The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement measures that disrupted the daily routines of many families worldwide. We studied how the COVID-19 lockdown affected children’s routines in Portugal (PT), Brazil (BR), and Italy (IT) to determine if children’s age and country impacted their physical activity (PA) and sedentary time. We launched an anonymous online survey to assess how 3–12 years old children adjusted their daily routines to this situation. Parents reported the times each child was engaged in different activities throughout the day, and we used these data to calculate separately overall sedentary and physical activity time. We conducted separate analyses of variance for age and country on the percentage of time spent in the different activities. Results, based on the data from 3045 children in these three countries (PT n = 2044; BR n = 836; IT n = 165), showed that, during lockdown, most children spent most of their awake daily hours in sedentary activities. There...
Epistemologia dell'attivit\ue0 fisica nell'infanzia secondo le recenti evidenze scientifi... more Epistemologia dell'attivit\ue0 fisica nell'infanzia secondo le recenti evidenze scientifiche. Progettazione di percorsi di educazione motoria per lo sviluppo di competenze motorie e finzioni esecutive nella scuola dell'infanzi
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Both the indoor and the outdoor environments and their organization exert pronounced influence up... more Both the indoor and the outdoor environments and their organization exert pronounced influence upon physical activity behavior and motor development of preschool children. The aim of this study was to explore whether partly structured activity or free play in a specific playground had different impacts on motor competence development in 4–6-year-old preschoolers. The study had a pretest–post-test design, with two intervention groups and one control. Sixty-two children were included in a partly structured activity group and forty-three children in a free-play group. Both groups participated in playground activities consisting of 10 sessions (once a week), each lasting 1 h, in a specific playground setting. For the partly structured activity group, activities in each session consisted of a combination of both structured and free activity while the free-play group were engaged in unstructured play only. The control group did not attend the playground activities (N = 36). To assess leve...
Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scie... more Aspetti relativi allo sviluppo motorio dei bambini da 0 a 6 anni secondo le recenti evidenze scientifiche
Lo sviluppo umano \ue8 un processo di ampliamento delle possibilit\ue0 umane che permette agli in... more Lo sviluppo umano \ue8 un processo di ampliamento delle possibilit\ue0 umane che permette agli individui di godere di una vita lunga e sana, di essere istruiti e di avere accesso alle risorse necessarie, a un livello di vita dignitoso, oltre a disporre di opportunit\ue0 politiche, economiche e sociali per sentirsi a pieno titolo membro della propria comunit\ue0 di appartenenza. Questo approccio allo sviluppo umano, proposto dall'economista Mahbub Ul Haq viene ampliato dalla teoria sviluppata dal premio Nobel Amartya Sen, che pone al centro del problema dello sviluppo il concetto di "capabilities" inteso come possibilit\ue0 dell'individuo di fare ci\uf2 che desidera, dal momento che la crescita economica da sola non si traduce automaticamente nello sviluppo umano. In un\u2019ottica di capacitazione i soggetti dello sviluppo diventano attori piuttosto che beneficiari. Nell\u2019articolo si affronta il tema di salute, benessere, povert\ue0 educativa e del ruolo attivo...
BackgroundLearning to cycle is an important milestone for children, but the popularity of cycling... more BackgroundLearning to cycle is an important milestone for children, but the popularity of cycling and the environmental factors that promote the development and practice of this foundational movement skill vary among cultures and across time. This present study aimed to investigate if country of residence and the generation in which a person was born influence the age at which people learn to cycle.MethodsData were collected through an online survey between November 2019 and December 2020. For this study, a total of 9,589 responses were obtained for adults (self-report) and children (parental report) living in 10 countries (Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Finland, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, Mexico, Croatia, and the Netherlands). Participants were grouped according to their year of birth with 20-year periods approximately corresponding to 3 generations: 1960–79 (generation X; n = 2,214); 1980–99 (generation Y; n = 3,994); 2000–2019 (generation Z; n = 3,381).ResultsA two-way ANOVA showe...
Cos'\ue8 la conoscenza? E' possibile conoscere? Attraverso quali fonti e modalit\ue0? Son... more Cos'\ue8 la conoscenza? E' possibile conoscere? Attraverso quali fonti e modalit\ue0? Sono alcune delle domande cui si cerca di rispondere in questo testo che si rivolge, in un linguaggio largamente accessibile, agli insegnanti, a chi si occupa di filosofia, e a coloro che desiderano avvicinarsi, anche per la prima volta, all'argomento. Si intraprende un percorso teorico-conoscitivo sul tema della conoscenza, ripercorrendo il pensiero di diversi filosofi, tra i quali Socrate, Platone, Aristotele, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Kant per giungere a J. Locke. John Locke viene presentato nel suo ambiente storico-politico-filosofico-culturale. Si seguono, attraverso il suo testo pi\uf9 importante, il Saggio sull'intelletto umano, gli sviluppi del suo pensiero per scoprire i "limiti e la natura dell'intelletto, cio\ue8 della facolt\ue0 conoscitiva umana". Attraverso questa ricerca Locke giunge ad affermare la necessit\ue0 di valori pratici, morali, religiosi per il consolidamento della libert\ue0, della dignit\ue0 umana e per meglio dirigere la propria vita
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