“OVERCOMING BARRIERS YOU CANNOT SEE”. PEDAGOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN SPORT CLIMBING AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Nicoletta Ferri

Abstract


The paper focuses on the inclusive role that a sport climbing context can represent for blind and visually impaired adolescents. In this regard, it presents data from a qualitative research conducted by the University of XXX, aimed at monitoring a large inclusive project with blind and visually impaired adolescents in the province of Lecco (Italy). Within the perspective of Embodied Pedagogy, the paper highlights both the pivotal components of the materiality of sport climbing – related to the type of athletic gesture, the use of spatiality and temporal dimension – and the pedagogical relevance that the experience of these elements can assume for a teenager with visual disabilities. 


Keywords


Sport climbing, Visually impairment, Embodied Pedagogy, Inclusion

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