The kindergarten teacher plays the role of educational guide capable of proposing learning paths that allow the children to discover himself, ensuring his centrality (Ellerani, 2013), and guaranteeing the discovery of others and of the surrounding world. Through movement, the child develops social…

The studies carried out in the field of neurosciences, motor sciences and the consequent didactic applications have highlighted the need to start processes for the planning and organization of contents, organizational methods and methodologies in physical education and in introducing sports, to…

The viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are rooted in the body’s interactions with the world aimed at gathering and collecting as much information as possible: cognition is situated, body based and for action (Wilson, 2002). From this perspective, embodied cognition…

After a long regulatory process, the educational offer of motor and sports education in the Italian primary school is enriched, thanks to the inclusion of the Sport Sciences specialized teacher with the intention of enhancing corporeity in its multiple expressions as a personal right and cognitive…

This work embraces the most recent contributions of Italian special pedagogy (Pinnelli, 2019; 2017; Sorrentino, 2020; Cinque, 2013) and of international pedagogical research (Gagné, 1985, 2004) on giftedness and talent in the sports field (Platvoet et al., 2015), as well as on approaches (Faber et…