THE SCHOOL-FAMILY ALLIANCE TO CREATE INCLUSIVE PRESCRIPTIONS: PHYSICAL EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF EMPOWERMENT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING STRATEGIES

Francesca Latino

Abstract


The co-responsibility between school and parents to improve the educational design gives the physical education a key role as means for empowerment of educational strategies shared both by scholastic institutions and by families to establish a curricular and extracurricular continuum. Physical education is involved in the process of full inclusion process and is seen as a strategy to improve the educational development of the youngest.

Considering the evidence available in the literature, we concluded that the educational values of physical education could offer a decisive contribution to the education and formation of young people. Thus, the purpose of this report is to suggest that physical education provides multiple routes to enhance lifelong habits for learning and for positive behaviors, in order to respond to multiple educational needs of the youngest.


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educational alliance, inclusiveness, physical education

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