SPORT AND DISABILITY
SPORT E DISABILITÀ
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2024/2025 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Cristina Ranocchi | Online, by appointment via email to cristina.ranocchi@uniurb.it |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and skills to understand the principles governing sport for people with disabilities. Also, the course aims to provide the necessary elements to understand the sector of adapted sports with reference to the national (also territorial) and international reality, and to provide students with knowledge and skills to improve the ability to relate to people with disabilities.
Program
The course concerns the following themes:
- History of Paralympism
- The figure of the coach in adapted sport
- Classifications and assessments of athletes with disabilities
- The Italian Paralympic Movement
- Paralympic Federations and National Paralympic Federations
- Paralympic sports disciplines: regulations and methodologies
Bridging Courses
No one.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
At the end of the course the student should:
- Knowledge and understanding: know the principles governing sport for people with disabilities.
- Applying knowledge and understanding: apply general knowledge regarding adapted sports to specific disabilities.
- Making judgments: be able to recognize how to adapt sport and physical activity to people with disability
- Communication skills: communicate and present with technical and specific terminology referred to the field of adapted sport
- Learning skills: be able to retrieve information with autonomy and from scientific sources.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Thematic seminars or lessons with "privileged experts".
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons, practical activities in the gym, or going out to sports centers for significant experiences, thematic seminars with "privileged experts".
- Innovative teaching methods
- Attendance
Class attendance is not mandatory.
- Course books
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
It is suggested the book: Bertini L., Disabilità e Sport Paralimpici, Metodologia e Didattica, Calzetti e Mariucci, Perugia 2023.
- Assessment
The examination consists of a written test with multiple-choice questions.
In-itinere evaluations could be carried out with the preparation of an individual/group project work: an in-depth study on an adapted sport discipline analyzing scientific evidence and web sources, which will then be presented with the discussion of a short ppt.
Students will be informed about any changes in the exam's modality within the first lessons.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Frontal lessons, practical activities in the gym, or going out to sports centers for significant experiences, thematic seminars with "privileged experts".
- Attendance
Class attendance is not mandatory.
- Course books
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
It is suggested the book: Bertini L., Disabilità e Sport Paralimpici, Metodologia e Didattica, Calzetti e Mariucci, Perugia 2023.
- Assessment
The examination consists of a written test with multiple-choice questions.
In-itinere evaluations could be carried out with the preparation of an individual/group project work: an in-depth study on an adapted sport discipline analyzing scientific evidence and web sources, which will then be presented with the discussion of a short ppt.
Students will be informed about any changes in the exam's modality within the first lessons.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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