Physical and sport education between Italian academic system and European Research Council structure panel

Abstract

Italian academic system is structured on 4 hierarchical levels. The basic level for physical and sports education is composed by 2 academic scientific-disciplines: Methods and Teaching of physical and sports activities to aim to research the theories, techniques and methods for general physical education or addressed to particular groups or age classes and to train and practice for different sports activities, the evaluation of performance and athletic aptitudes. The superior levels are academic recruitment field Didactics, special pedagogy and educational research to aim on Education for physical and sports activities, group of academic discipline field of Pedagogy and, finally, discipline area of historical, philosophical, psychological and pedagogical sciences. While European Research Council consisting of 3 areas: Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical Sciences and Engineering and Life Sciences, 25 panels and 333 subpanels. The aim is to research the scientific identity of physical and sports education in the current framework of rules with the identification and comparison between the systems keywords and subpanel ERC 2018. It was being identified by the 2400 keywords of Italian National University Council: Physical training, learning, human movement and sport education, sport pedagogy, motor development and by the ERC subpanels: Health, Cognitive basis of human development and education, Learning. The comparison between them is complex but configurable and emerges a gap for the two different method settings because of the misalignment between them. The effect is that the Italian system has a dichotomy between research and training with consequences for grant and funding abroad such as the European Research Council.