Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Genoa offers a program in Science and Technique of Motor Activity in Evolutive Age.

Program Details

• Code: Not specified
• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• CFU: Not specified
• Sector: M-EDF/01
• Language: Italian
• Location: Genoa
• Period: 2nd Semester

Educational Objectives

The educational objectives of this course are to deepen the methodologies of teaching motor activity during the growth period and to know the effects of motor activity on intellectual, social, cognitive, and motor development.

Detailed Educational Objectives and Learning Outcomes

• Understanding of the physiological and biomechanical processes underlying the structures of motor skill learning.
• Competence in the role of the teacher-educator-coach.
• Mastery of methodological tools to design and conduct basic motor activities in various educational contexts.
• Relational skills for correct use of communicative ability adapted to different age groups.

Teaching Methods

The course includes frontal lessons held in the classroom, with the use of innovative teaching tools to facilitate the consolidation of information.

Program/Content

• Motor skills in evolutive age
• Motor learning and constituent aspects of movement
• Didactic approaches in motor activity in evolutive age
• Figure and role of the teacher
• Aspects of sports communication
• Motor activity and body schema
• Role of motor activity in motor, cognitive, and social development
• Play

Texts/Bibliography

• Francesco Casolo, "Didattica delle attività motorie per l'età evolutiva", Vita e pensiero
• Lesson slides

Teachers and Commissions

• Teacher: Emanuela Luisa Faelli
• Exam Commission: Alberto Izzotti (President), Luigi Molfetta (President), Emanuela Luisa Faelli (President and Coordinator of the integrated course)

Lessons

• Start of Lessons: 2nd semester
• Lesson Schedule: Consultable at the EasyAcademy portal

Exams

• Exam Method: Written quiz with multiple-choice questions
• Exam Duration: 20 minutes
• Quiz Composition: 15 multiple-choice questions
• Scoring: 2 points for each correct answer, 0 points for each incorrect answer
• Passing Score: 18/30

Other Information

• Students with DSA certification, disability, or other special educational needs should contact the reference person of the School, Prof. Nicola Girtler, and the teacher at the beginning of the lessons to agree on didactic and exam methods that take into account individual learning modalities and provide suitable compensatory/dispensatory tools recognized by the University's DSA Service.