PREVENTIVE AND COMPENSATIVE MOTOR THEORY, TECHNIQUE AND TEACHING
cod. 1012449

Academic year 2024/25
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Giuliana GOBBI
Academic discipline
Metodi e didattiche delle attività motorie (M-EDF/01)
Field
Discipline motorie e sportive
Type of training activity
Characterising
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: THEORY AND METHODS OF ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with the skills for conducting and managing preventive and adapted physical exercise and sports for different age groups. Special attention to people with physical and/or intellectual disability.
1. knowledge and understanding skills. Students need to know and understand the topics of physical fitness adapted to improve the quality of life in subjects of different age and in different health conditions.
2. ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Ability to set up protocols for sport and physical exercise in different conditions.
3. autonomy of judgment. Ability to evaluate indications and contraindications to sport and physical exercise in different age groups and in subjects with chronic pathologies.
4 communicative skills. Ability to understand and explain technical topics related to physical activity in different conditions.
5 Learning Skills. Ability to design and update, through scientific literature, protocols for physical exercise and sport activities in different age groups and health conditions.

Prerequisites

Course unit content

1. Preventive and compensatory education: definitions and objectives.
2. Training and detraining.
3. Tests/Scale to assess motor skills.
4. Physical activity, diseases, physical and/or intellectual disabiliy.
5. The skeletal muscle satellite cells.

Full programme

Bibliography

- American College of Sport Medicine’s Guideline for exercise testing and prescription.
- ACSM. Linee guida per la valutazione funzionale e la prescrizione dell'esercizio fisico. Ed. Calzetti e Mariucci.
- Buono P. & co. Attività Fisica Per la Salute. Seconda edizione, Idelson Gnocchi.

Teaching methods

Lectures will be held on-site. Supporting material will be available on the specific, student-reserved platform (Elly).

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination.

Other information

2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

health and wellness
quality education
gender equality