Physical Education and Sport for Disabled People
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Special and Inclusive Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 7673
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical education; primary school; PE teacher training; faculty development; movement assessment; teaching methods of PE; adapted physical activity; sport education
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: physical activity; teaching methods of PE; school sport
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to contribute your work to this Special Issue on “Physical Education and Sport for Disabled People”. The goal of this SI is to collect the most recent studies and projects carried out in a socio-educational context (schools, sport associations, centers for the disabled, etc.) and aimed at increasing knowledge and research experience on physical activity and sport programs for disabled people.
The starting point is the promotion of an approach to social cohesion based on equity of rights. One of these fundamental rights is access to optimal health: physical activity is a key element in promoting and maintaining individual health and well-being. Regular exercise is fundamental for staying physically and mentally fit; physical activities help to contain weight and overweight problems and play an important role in preventing and/or reducing the impact of many other health-related conditions.
In addition to the wide and multiple benefits to individual health and well-being, sport and physical activity have a remarkable value in the context of social inclusion and integration: they can encourage active social inclusion because they offer opportunities for special groups, such as the disabled, to fully interact and relate with other social groups. In particular, for people with disabilities, in all age groups, physical activity, through physical education and sport, offers the possibility to bring out their talents and has the potential to involve everyone in an inclusive perspective.
It is necessary to guarantee full access to the right to health for all through an effective qualitative–quantitative approach to physical activities and sports, with particular attention to special populations that are more exposed to risk factors for health and well-being. This goal is achievable through targeted socio-educational policies that can encourage participation in regular physical activity and sport to foster a sense of social inclusion and integration, particularly for groups that are marginalized and often suffer from barriers, such as disabled people, at any age. Typical barriers for disabled people in approaching physical activity sport include the following: lack of awareness on the part of society as to how to involve them in sport and physical activity (through physical education, sport, adapted physical activity) programs adequately, lack of opportunities and programs for education, too few accessible facilities due to physical barriers, and limited information on access to resources.
Francesca D’Elia
Tiziana D’Isanto
Gaetano Altavilla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adapted physical activity
- unified sports
- sport inclusion
- Special Olympics
- movement assessment
- health and wellness
