Physical education teacher training for disability

Abstract

This work in focused on investigation of physical education teachers' education with pedagogical bases for students with disabilities. Starting from an American research on teachers of physical education who work in contact with the disability, it has shown how the teachers express negative attitudes towards inclusion because they consider their training inadequate. The aim is to understand the phenomenon of physical education teacher training analysing the documentary research of the master's degree programs in sports sciences in Italy, with a specific study on the master's degree in sports sciences at the university of Salerno and, finally, a survey on teachers' perception of disability. The first study revealed that the main difficulty encountered is the inability to plan inclusive and personalized lessons, since the degree courses refer to the bio-medical area. The second study, the analysis of the Master degree course of Science in Sports Science at the University of Salerno, mainly refers to the pedagogical-didactic area and aimed at teaching and designing for the purpose of education for the disabled. From the fact-finding survey on teachers' perceptions emerges that both pedagogy and teaching are fundamental for any job in the motor and sports field, even for those who decide not to teach. In conclusion, the training of the physical education teacher who also teaches the disabled must have a less bio-medical and more pedagogical education.

Functional classification and performance in wheelchair basketball

“…The qualitative aspects are very similar to basketball for the non-disabled, except for some variations in the execution of technical gestures and the regulation (Altavilla et al, 2020). Wheelchair basketball players show differences in the movement of the trunk and arms in the execution of technical gestures due to the residual motor possibilities that differentiate the players of the various classes (Cascone et al, 2020).…”

Negative Stereotypes Towards Older People. A Study with Teachers in Initial Training

“…In this way, the education system in all its stages must contemplate promoting the change of attitudes towards older adults in curricular designs, allowing them to be an integral and active part of society (Matas et al, 2017;Melero Marcos, 2007). There is a large body of research on initial teacher education (Cascone et al, 2020;Gómez-Camacho et al, 2021;Gómez-Carrasco et al, 2020;Núñez-Cortés et al, 2021). However, there is still little research on how to deal with the stereotypes that future teachers have when faced with the possibility of having older adults as pupils (Pedrero-García et al, 2018).…”

The impact of the racket on mobility performance in wheelchair tennis

“…The combination of sport and disability is representative of an approach that has collected the socio-cultural and scientific evolution of sports and physical-motor activity in a phenomenological key on the one hand, and of the vision of the disabled person in terms of biopsychosocial functioning on the other (D'Elia et al, 2020). The benefits of sporting activity and the importance of enhancing everyone's skills were highlighted, trying to overcome the prejudices that over time have limited sporting activity and the lives of people with disabilities (Cascone et al, 2020). Wheelchair tennis has over time become one of the most popular sports of the Paralympics, with international competitions taking place all over the world.…”