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Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Human Sciences, Society, and Health at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences and has furthered his education with advanced studies in Pedagogy. As a seasoned professional educator with several years of experience is dedicated to advancing the field through both teaching and research.
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November 2007 - April 2011
October 2004 - April 2006
September 2000 - November 2003
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Preadolescents (10–12 years) are prolific media users, yet it is still being determined whether the different types of social media engagement are impacting their bodies. This exploratory study aimed to test a model of relationships between types of social media engagement, attitude to alter one’s physical appearance, dualism, and body satisfaction...
Preadolescence, a critical developmental stage, is increasingly influenced by social media, blending physical and virtual experiences. Generation Alpha, born entirely in the digital age, is particularly impacted as technology shapes their growing, learning and social interactions. Social media’s emphasis on appearance affects body image and emotion...
La scuola e gli insegnanti sono la parte migliore di una società. Ma la scuola è nelle condizioni di permettere agli insegnanti di esprimere tutto il loro potenziale educativo?
Description Background: Icehearts Europe is a pan-European initiative promoting EU-wide adaptation and dissemination of the Finnish sport-based best practice 'Icehearts', focused on preventing social exclusion and promoting the psychophysical well-being of disadvantaged youth through a 12-year mentoring and comprehensive support. The project aims t...
Cara Lettrice, Caro Lettore,
è con grande entusiasmo che presentiamo questo nuovo
lavoro del Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Sociali e
della Salute, dedicato all'analisi della vita delle nuove
generazioni nell'era "onlife". Ci troviamo in un momento
cruciale per la nostra società, in cui assistiamo al
passaggio di testimone tra la generazione Zeta,...
Se l’era moderna si apre secondo Foucault (2006) con la scoperta del corpo e con la consapevolezza dell’uomo di poterlo possedere, modificare, adattare, curare, i recenti sviluppi della tecnica e del complesso processo di trasformazione culturale e sociale che chiamiamo postumanesimo stanno proiettando il corpo in una dimensione dell’esistenza mai...
This article investigates the phenomenon of sports abandonment among young scholars aged between 8 and 13 years. Regardless of the growing awareness of the importance of sport and physical activity during childhood and adolescence, this theme must be adequately explored in the scientific literature. Our study addresses this gap through a cross-sect...
Emotional intelligence, which encompasses the ability to perceive, understand, express, and regulate emotions, is recognized as critical to the socioemotional development of adolescents. Despite its significance, the relationship between emotional intelligence and social media use among adolescents remains largely unexplored in the literature. This...
This study explores gender differences in sports dropout, analyzing the complex, gender-specific factors behind quitting sports. Using a mixed-methods approach combining questionnaires and focus groups, we identify unique social, psychological, and physical reasons affecting males and females differently. Findings suggest the need for gender-sensit...
This study investigates the relationship between emotional intelligence, problematic social media use, and image-related activities on social media among adolescents. Conducted with 1109 students from Italian lower secondary schools, the research employs questionnaires to assess emotional intelligence, problematic social media use, and image-relate...
Body image (BI) and emotional intelligence (EI) are crucial for the development of preadolescents. However, the widespread use of social media (SM) may have negative effects. Overall, 1109 preadolescents completed an anonymous questionnaire. Results show a negative correlation between social media use and both body image and emotional intelligence....
This action research aims to promote the development of a positive body image in a sample of children aged between 9 and 11 years at a primary school in Cassino, Italy. Using a mixed methodological approach, the project includes an initial data collection phase using the Body Image Disturbance Questionnaire (BIDQ) and focus groups to assess the par...
Social networks propose beauty standards that have dangerous implies on users' body satisfaction and multifaceted on body image of preadolescents, a vulnerable age group facing unique challenges in the digital era. With the proliferation of social media platforms, preadolescents are increasingly exposed to carefully curated images and ideals of bea...
Adolescence is a period marked by significant physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes. During this phase, emotional intelligence may play a crucial role in shaping social-emotional development. While emotional intelligence has both biological and psychological foundations, it is also subject to the influence of various
sociocultural fact...
The refugee experience can be profoundly challenging, often marked by trauma, confusion, and a range of risk factors. These risk factors include residing in disadvantaged communities, disrupted education prior to arrival in the host country, poverty, discrimination, mental and physical trauma, and the burden of living in families torn apart by war...
The refugee experience can be profoundly challenging, often marked by trauma, confusion, and a range of risk factors. These risk factors include residing in disadvantaged communities, disrupted education prior to arrival in the host country, poverty, discrimination, mental and physical trauma, and the burden of living in families torn apart by war...
As body image mirrors one’s perception of embodiment, it suggests a link between the onset of disorders - such as Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) - and corporeal experiences. To explore the relationship, an embodied learning intervention is proposed. Children, aged 9 to 11, will participate in various experiences, including activities where the body...
In recent years, the widespread adoption of social media has immersed users in content dominated by conventional beauty ideals and the relentless pursuit of perfection. This pervasive influence has significantly altered the perceptual landscape for young individuals, particularly pre-adolescents and adolescents, shaping their self-evaluations and c...
This conceptual paper explores the integration of technology and virtual spaces into preadolescents’ lives, blurring the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds. It emphasises the profound implications of this integration on various aspects, including perception, reality, and interactions. The younger generations, deeply immersed in this...
Documento di consenso del Gruppo di Studio “Educazione Fisica & Pedagogia dello Sport” della SISMeS (Società Italiana delle Scienze Motorie e Sportive).
Questo documento di consenso riporta la riflessione di un ampio gruppo di ricercatori italiani su contenuti, riferimenti culturali, prospettive e sfide dell’Educazione Fisica contemporanea. Si tra...
Il Numero Zero della Rivista Corpo, Società, Educazione.
La rivista «Corpo, Società, Educazione» si propone come un veicolo essenziale per l’avanzamento del dibattito scientifico e culturale sul corpo, esplorandolo sia dal punto di vista dell’educazione e della didattica, che da quello delle dinamiche sociali e storiche. Attraverso una vasta gamm...
The virtual reality era has ushered in significant changes in the identity formation process of children and young individuals. This exploratory research intervention investigates the correlation between social media use and its potential influence on body image development in 9-to 10-year-old children. This study employs a qualitative research-int...
Il corpo non è soltanto qualcosa che l’individuo possiede, bensì, in un senso più ampio e più profondo, ciò che l’individuo è. Il corpo racchiude e rappresenta l’intera esistenza individuale: le tracce delle vicende passate (del tempo che passa), il rapporto con il pre- sente, le proiezioni verso il futuro. Perché dunque la scuola e, più in general...
Nel e attraverso il corpo si sviluppa quello che Lowen (1977) ha definito come il senso dell’esistenza, riferendosi a quella capacità di comprendere, a livello conscio, di avere un’esistenza tangibile, reale, da cui si forma l’identità e da cui scaturisce la percezione della propria individualità. Merleau-Ponty (1945) prima e Sartre (2003) in segui...
Purpose: To review the literature regarding the development of the digitalization of education in the post-humanism era.
Methods: a literature review was conducted on Google Scholar, Web Of Science and Pubmed databases using the keywords digital literacy, education, posthumanism.
Results: Digital literacy (DL) encompasses the competencies and skill...
siamo nel pieno dell’epoca postumana; la scienza e la tecnica hanno rimodellato i confini e le possibilità dell’uomo. I progressi della scienza e della tecnica sono arrivati a cambiare la natura umana. Sta cambiando il modo con cui facciamo esperienza e il modo attraverso cui costruiamo la nostra identità. Quanto di questo cambiamento è percepito d...
Le moderne tecnologie consentono di estendere il senso dell’esistenza e progettare molteplici identità virtuali. Il corpo dei giovani, proiettato nella vita onlife, è perpetuato quasi all’infinito, inserito in un’aspettativa di vita mai raggiunta in precedenza, in opportunità che si moltiplicano. Ma per effetto di una condizione di ambivalenza, i g...
Il massiccio e frequente utilizzo dei social media rappresenta un potenziale rischio per la salute e il benessere dei preadolescenti (11-13 anni). La recente letteratura scientifica (cfr. Mc Lean et al., 2016; Viner et al., 2019) ha messo in luce una correlazione tra la frequente esposizione ai contenuti virtuali e l’insorgenza di forme di depressi...
Che cos’è un corpo? Domanda apparentemente banale, la cui risposta richiede invece una riflessione più approfondita. Per- ché se è vero che il corpo rappresenta il punto di radicamento di ogni essere umano, è altrettanto vero che per quanto si ab- bia l’impressione di possederlo e di comprenderlo, esso sembra sempre in qualche modo sfuggirci. La co...
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Social media impact body perception because it coveys unattainable appearance models vulnerable to developing body image dissatisfaction. Based on a qualitative study carried out among 111 primary school students, the Authors will propose the framework for an educational intervention aimed to enhance some critical aspects of body image, suc...
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The increasing use of social media among preadolescents has been found to impact body satisfaction and lead to the development of dualism between real and virtual identities. A sample of 2378 Italian preadolescents (Mage= 12.02 years, SD= 0.82) was recruited to investigate this issue. The results showed that using filters/apps to alter phys...
The extensive involvement of Italian sport organisations in delivering various social and humanitarian services and activities to migrants, along with the peculiarity of the country, offered the ground to the conceptualisation of this paper. This study aims to discuss the contributions of sport to migrants’ social inclusion through a review of the...
Generalmente, la ricerca qualitativa trova applicazione in ambito fenomenologico, in considerazione della sua natura fortemente interpretativa e della concezione multidimensionale degli oggetti di studio che adotta, secondo paradigmi di complessità e di contestualità. La pandemia da Covid- 19 ha rappresentato un interessante banco di prova per la r...
The use of social media has been increasing among pre-teens, affecting body satisfaction and leading to the development of a dualism between real and virtual identities. It is also associated with low physical activity levels. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the influence of dualism and physical activity levels on body satisfaction...
Report di Ricerca - Corpi Duplicati: l’utilizzo dei social media tra gli under 14
L'utilizzo dei social media tra i giovanissimi rappresenta un tema di rilevante attualità su cui occorre fare ricerca.
Analizzare le modalità di utilizzo e di fruizione dei contenuti e delle piattaforme virtuali permette di comprendere una parte rilevante della vita...
In recent years, there has been an increase in the attention towards sustainability by the organizing committees of mega-sport events due to the potential impacts they can have. Less attention was given to small-sport events: the carbon footprint of this type of event was seldom investigated unless it had a clear impact on the environment. The purp...
During the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, school activities in Italy have been provided through distance learning, with a consequent impact on the body of the students and their physical activity habits. The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of a programme to sensibilize preadolescents towards the adoption of active lifestyles...
Le teorie sulla semplessità hanno rappresentato un importante punto di svolta nella riflessione pedagogica. Le strategie utilizzate dalle specie viventi nel processo di adattamento alla complessità circostante hanno un loro corrispettivo nell’articolato dispiegarsi del processo educativo e nella necessità di giungere a decifrare tale complessità en...
Background: Air pollution is an environmental risk factor for mortality and the fifth largest risk factor for all causes of death. The practice of regular physical activity is strongly encouraged to achieve a healthy lifestyle. During a physical exercise session, the volume of inhaled pollutants increases. The present study aims to report the evide...
Purpose: The present observational study was carried out to investigate the impact of a physical education intervention on physical activity levels (PAL) during lockdown.
Methods: A convenience sample of 156 early adolescents (age range 11–14 years) attending a secondary school was recruited. PAL data were collected by means of the IPAQ-SF question...
Sport has historically been recognized to play an important role in societies across the world, be it in the form of competitive sport, physical activity, or play. The use of sport as a means of social intervention promotes social integra- tion, encourages an active lifestyle, and serves as an educational tool and local and social development. It c...
La gestione della pandemia da COVID-19 ha visto l’emergere in Italia di una forma temporanea di società disciplinare, in cui sono state messe in atto delle stra- tegie di controllo del corpo. Il disciplinamento dei comportamenti è stato adottato come uno dei principali strumenti di contrasto alla diffusione del contagio. Molte forme sociali di inte...
Although there is a voluminous literature on social media effects on body image concerns of young adults, there has been relatively little research on processes and effects of social media on preadolescents’ body image. Furthermore, there has been little theoretically driven research on the effects of the constant manipulation and dissemination of...
Sport has historically been recognized to play an important role in societies across the world, be it in the form of competitive sport, physical activity, or play. The use of sport as a means of social intervention promotes social integration, encourages an active lifestyle, and serves as an educational tool and local and social development. It can...
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Prisoners spend most of their time in restricted environments, with strong limitations on freedom and social relationships. Inmates that committed sex crimes (sex-offenders) are subject to limitations more restrictive than other inmates. Physical inactivity is very common in these populations, with negative effects on both physical and m...
Nonostante la voluminosa letteratura sul rapporto tra l’utilizzo dei social media e la formazione dell’immagine corporea degli adolescenti (Evans et al, 2017; Hughes et al. 2017; Jarman et al., 2020), poco o nulla è stato ancora analizzato sugli effetti che si determinano sul benessere dei preadolescenti. In modo particolare, non c’è ancora stato u...
Drawing on a phenomenological approach, the paper articulates the results of a study aimed at examining the influence of peer and media variables on body disaffection in 11-to 14-year-old preadolescents. The proposition that the use of altered virtual body images is linked with forms of body disaffection will be explored. Broadly, adolescence has b...
Background. The use of social media is widespread among preadolescents, regardless the age restrictions that many providers and platforms have set. On these platforms, the massive representation of their bodies – often vehiculated as filtered images and/or altered videos – is negatively impacting their body image. Many of them experience feelings o...
Il corpo, per sua stessa conformazione ontologica, non è mai culturalmente fissato: esso si inserisce all’interno di una rete di relazioni sociali mai real- mente stabili, che necessita di una ricerca costante di rapporti di equilibrio (Csordas, 1994/2004; Le Breton, 2018). Il repentino sviluppo della tecnica e della tecnologia che sta accompagnand...
L’analisi dell’occupazione e della forza lavoro nel settore delle scienze mo-torie e sportive sviluppa delle implicazioni che hanno ricevuto scarsa atten-zione sia nel dibattito pubblico che nella ricerca scientifica. A tal proposito, il progetto europeo denominato «A European Sector Skills Alliance for Sport» (ESSA-Sport)» ha offerto l’opportunità...
Volontaria rinuncia all'equilibrio e ricerca coraggiosa di un punto d'appoggio ancora ignoto, più che un esercizio la capovolta è un atto esistenziale, l'espressione della capacità di affidarsi al proprio corpo come all'unica certezza stabile quando tutto il resto è alla rovescia. Certezza che manca ai giovani di oggi, vittime della contraddizione,...
Ripropongo l'intervento che ho tenuto durante la tavola rotonda organizzata in concomitanza con la sottoscrizione del Patto di Territorio per il Contrasto alle Povertà Educative Provincia di Latina-17 luglio 2021, Gaeta.
L'articolo propone una lettura della crisi della società contemporanea attraverso il corpo, in una visione che coniuga l'esperienza soggettiva/oggettiva, il corpo come dato di natura e il corpo come prodotto culturale e collettivo. In particolare, si analizza la relazione dei giovani con il proprio corpo, anche con lo scopo di tracciare alcune line...
The body is an extraordinary observation point of the world, especially in the modern societies, where it is a tangible sign of the individual, the personal place in which the differences, the social and cultural distinctions are shown. Being at the heart of the individual and collective action, it is the focal point of the existential dimension an...
The paper proposes a theoretical reflection on the link between the decline of free play among the children living in the modern societies and the educational poverty, that will be considered as a set of factors that prevent a person from learning and developing, completely, skills and talents, with negative impacts on the daily life. It is a polys...
This commentary considers the impacts of COVID-19 on sport governance and management, given the global threat to sport services and organizations evident as a result of the disease since early 2020. To frame this analysis of the impacts and lessons to be learned, we use a Critical Realist (CR) perspective, which takes a multi-level view of reality...
Fitness culture in Italy has been spreading since the 1980s as a technique for achieving a better physical form oriented to psycho-physical wellbeing and health. The discipline has developed as a universal model of the usefulness of bodies, becoming a sign of personal status, and spaces (gyms) where bodies are virtuously trained between commercial...
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Educational Praximorphisms: on the Irrational Nature of Educational Practice Nowadays, the debate concerning the crisis of the education, and afterthought of the educational approaches, is emerging as a reaction to the challenges of the modernity. The educational systems are not giving appropriated answers to the problems of the society th...
A partire da una riflessione sugli orientamenti necessari a contrastare la povertà educativa, l’articolo propone un modello di intervento che, sotto il versante educativo, possa amplificare la portata e l’efficacia delle azioni intra- prese. L’approccio è riconducibile al welfare generativo, secondo il quale i beneficiari, da semplici destinatari d...
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La scuola di oggi ci parla di classi sempre più ricche di diversità, di mondi profondamente diversi che si contaminano gli uni con gli altri, che si incontrano e che inducono gli insegnanti a riflettere sulla propria didattica. Il saggio, ponendosi al punto di intersezione tra scuola, cultura, diversità e didattica, si focalizza sul sign...
Titolo: La riduzione del tempo di gioco libero come forma di povertà educativa: riflessioni sul contesto italiano. Abstract: La scomparsa dell'infanzia-già postulata da Neil Postman nel 1982-assieme al sempre più ampio ricorso al gioco adultizzato, come cornice educativa di riferimento, sono due fenomeni che interessano le società contemporanee. So...
Nella scuola primaria il corpo e le emozioni hanno rappresentato a lungo due convitati di pietra, e questo nonostante la riflessione di carattere pedagogico abbia da tempo risolto la frattura tra mente e corpo, dimostrando chiaramente l'impossibilità di realizzare qualsivoglia intervento educativo senza il concorso del corpo e delle emozioni. L'obi...
Recent scandals across the word of sport can be directly related to poor governance. This Research Handbook gathers the state-of-the-art research on sport governance by leading international scholars on various issues across various sports, offering a vital reference point for advancing research.
Illustrating different approaches and perspectives...
The article addresses the frontier "places" and "environments" in which Sport-based projects are, more and more, used. Based on the contribution of the scientific literature and on the data deriving from a case study carried out in the Prison of Cassino, it seeks to investigate the context of the Prison as a place where sport can be part of the reh...
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The disappearance of childhood and the adultification of play are two issues that are occurring in the modern societies, with negative effects on children’s well-being. The paper seeks to systematize the scientific literature concern- ing these themes and to propose a possible classification for the different types of play. A proposal for...
For some time now, the school is reflecting on the emotional education. A Growing number of projects and specific activities were developed as effect of a large interest on a theme that, in the past, was barely investigated. The pioneering work of the projects opened interesting scenarios, illuminating , at the same time, the huge potentialities of...
Therefore, the primary purpose of this paper is to analysis a sport-based intervention on the psychological well-being of the prisoners living in the prison of Cassino (Italy). The study has in particular three aims and two hypotheses:
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To determine the impact of the program on prisoners’ personal development, emotional health, resilience, so...
The whole project has been implementing the EOSE 7 Step Model and acted as a clear call to action in order to equip those working or volunteering in sport administration with the right skills and knowledge. Read loads of info, tips and great examples on how to develop a fit for purpose training for sport administrators while browsing the S2A Sport...
The purpose of the guidelines in this document are to provide access to a sport specific governance resource that will improve governance practices at board and leadership level.
It can assist members of boards and committees, executive officers and managers of sport organisations to develop, implement and maintain a system of governance that fits...
This article is intended to deal with the main aspects related to the Italian sport system, supported by the available data, which will provide an understanding of the private sport sector’s dimensions and peculiarities, both from the structural and economic perspectives. Italy has a peculiar organisation of the sport system: the distinctive role p...
This interdisciplinary contribution aims at tracing an Italian framework concerning neighborhood sport facilities: their diffusion, functioning, regulation and impact on society. By underlying an overall lack of both adequate structures and norms, the article then focuses on children's autonomy and independent mobility as an indicator of the nation...
Italy is undoubtedly still behind in the process of building a reliable and broadly shared framework for enhancing physical activity (PA) - and therefore health - among communities, within the urban spaces and the everyday environments in which most people live: cities and neighbourhoods. Until today, there has been no comprehensive regulation addr...
Prendendo le mosse dal perdurante e strutturale stato di crisi che interessa i sistemi educativi – per certi versi diverso rispetto a quelli passati - il saggio intende proporre un nuovo modo di concepire l’educazione. L’idea diffusa di educazione è rigida, dogmaticamente fondata, razionalizzata, ancorata a un certo conservatorismo e disarticolata...
Abstract: The paper presents the 7 step-model, a framework for the development of a strategic approach that seeks to ensure that quality VET exists to support the development of a competent workforce. It fosters the development of evidence-informed VET policies and pursues to ensure a strong link between the education and training system and the la...
Boundaries defining and shaping the field of vocational education and further training (VET).
(1) Systems: Socio-culturally different VET systems have evolved along conceptual lines. The comparison of different skill formation systems and governance of VET systems are on the one hand of theoretical and on the other hand of practical importance in...
In the last decades, parkour as a urban bodily practice has gained an extraordinary visibility in the global sportscape, thanks to its precocious mediatization in blockbuster movies and documentaries, in internet video channels like Youtube, in websites and in social networks (Gilchrist and Wheaton 2011, 2012; Stapleton, Terrio 2010). In Italy too,...
Physical activity is today considered as one of the single most important determinants for a healthy life- style and, more in general, an effective means of social intervention. Several studies have contented that, under certain conditions, it acts as a mechanism to strengthen community and provide mentoring and support for individuals. However, it...
The presentation, after describing the main feature of the labour market in Italy, gives insight about the labour market in the sport sector by adopting as point view both the Italian and the European context. In doing so, data concerning the S2A project - Improving skills for sport administration are presented and commented.
This paper is based on a study that was initiated to better understand the dynamics of the grassroots sport landscape and establish a framework for effective gov- ernance practice in this important area of sport policy and management. Researchers had previously identified the value of exploring good governance specific to the non- profit sector and...
Il tempo di gioco libero - non eterodiretto da un adulto- concesso ai bambini è diminuito drasticamente negli ultimi anni, portando con sé conseguenze negative sul loro stato di benessere. La società di oggi è chiamata a rispondere a questa emergenza educativa e a mettere in atto interventi e politiche che favoriscano più ampi spazi di autonomia pe...
This paper is based on a study that was initiated to better understand the dynamics of the grassroots sport landscape and establish a framework for effective governance practice in this important area of sport policy and management. Researchers had previously identified the value of exploring good governance specific to the nonprofit sector and in...
Sport-based projects are increasingly recognised as effective tools for addressing a variety of objectives such as: peace-building and conflict resolution, social inclusion, non-medical approach to overcome traumas, economic development of local communities, etc.
The claims made about sport as a vehicle for promoting peace and development (i.e. UN...
In a similar way to many other European countries, Italy has developed a dynamic and efficient sport system. Especially in top-elite sport it represents one of the most successful nations in terms of Olympic medals and victories in international competitions. Since the establishment of the Italian Republic, after the end of the Second World War and...
Nowadays, models adopted by the educational systems met with rigidities and doctrinal axioms that are limiting the efficacy of the interventions. This is due to a reduced capacity of adaptability to the reality. There is the tendency to apply a cage of false rationality, in which objectives, times, tools, etc. are defined with rigidity – often dogm...
The paper presents the research methodology and the main #ndings of the
study carried out to monitor and assess the UISP – the largest sport for all Italian
association – national project named Diritti in campo (Rights in the #eld). The
project had the overall goals to use sport-based programs to support the process
of integration of migrants livin...
A partir d’une enquête par entretiens collectifs auprès d’enfants de quartiers pauvres de quatre pays européens (France, Suisse, Allemagne, Italie), cet article décrypte leur rapport au corps au quotidien à la fois au niveau des pratiques physiques de déplacement et de loisir, mais aussi à travers les représentations corporelles associées à la sant...
This handbook is written with project managers from sports organisations and other stakeholders who focus on sport and physical activity in mind, as they can play an important role in closing the gap. The first step is to embrace the idea that physical activity promotion in SDG is everybody’s business, including yours. The next step is to consider...
The «Polisportiva Giovanni Masi» (PGM) has been analyzed for 3 years by our research group since 2010. The club, which boasts more than 7000 members, is located in Casalecchio di Reno, a municipality of 38000 inhabitants near Bologna. The research, based on the case-study approach (Yin, 2009) has been carried out with a special focus on the quality...
Physical activity has proven itself to be one of the single most important determinants for a healthy life. Leading authorities, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), have extensively documented the positive effects of physical activity on health and quality of life. However, it has been equally well documented that inequalities related to a...
La creazione di condizioni favorevoli e la messa in opera di strategie atte a facilitare il movimento e l’attività fisica rappresentano oggi un tema rilevante all’interno delle agende politiche sia a livello locale/nazionale che internazionale (Sallis, Linton e Kraft, 2005; Madella, 2010). Nel tentativo di avvicinarsi a una richiesta di miglioramen...
