TITLE:
Analysis of an Ontological Plan for Physical and Sports Education in the Italian Cultural Reality: A Preliminary Survey
AUTHORS:
Pietro Luigi Invernizzi, Gabriele Signorini, Raffaele Scurati, Franco Mauro, Marta Rigon, Athos Trecroci, Francesca D’Elia, Gaetano Raiola
KEYWORDS:
Scientific Paradigms, Historical Analysis, Semantic Knowledge, Etymological Identity, Field-Based Community, Integration of Knowledge, Physical Education, Sports Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Physical Education,
Vol.13 No.4,
November
23,
2023
ABSTRACT: An applied and hermeneutic “material ontology”
proper to the humanities and social sciences was focused on in this paper,
starting from the general philosophical definition of ontology as a general
view of reality. The importance of ontologies is recognized in several fields
of disciplinary research, including educational and training contexts, such as
those specific to physical and sports education. The “vision” of this study
conceives the ontological tool as a formal description of a domain of knowledge
based on direct lived and concrete experience in the specific physical
education field. To disregard the community of practice is to lose all the
reflexive intentionality typical of the narrative
proper to education learning and the training processes towards which
the school community is directed. The narrative of this work is related to a
reconceptualization of reality starting from the interpretations that the
teaching community attributes to some key terms of physical education. Logical,
abstract, and conceptual rigor is not the only way scientific thinking is
expressed; experience feeds on analogical relationships, and the recombination of implicit meanings is another means to
favor cultural acquisition. Based on awareness and emotions, the human
relationships put into play by a competent
teacher represent the elements through which physical education’s contents and operational approaches acquire a precise
semantic value. Some scientific paradigms that have changed the vision
of reality have been semantically juxtaposed
with the experience of the community of practice and historical
analysis, creating the indispensable premise for a preliminary survey based on
a qualitative study to define the cultural identity of physical and sports
education in Italian reality.