TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DIDACTICS

Antonio Borgogni, Simone Digennaro, Stefania Manzo and Erika Vannini Faculty of Sport Sciences, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Cassino, Italy


Abstract

The concept of sustainability is usually linked with environmental issues. Accepting the
idea of the body as an inner environment, it is possible to outline a more sustainable approach to
sport didactics that doesn’t jeopardise the youth’s later willingness for sports. The red thread
running through the theoretical references and didactic examples is a way of teaching that
privileges communicative to functional/thermo dynamical aspects. The sustainable didactics is
the synthesis of several methodological approaches developed in the in the field of Sport for All.

Keywords: sustainability, didactics, sports for all



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