The experience of sports high schools in Italy: strengths and weaknesses

Abstract

Sports high schools are a mature and consolidated reality of the Italian school system. Therefore, at this juncture, it is possible to analyze problems and to dissolve as soon as possible the most important educational-didactic nodes, in order to favour their greater visibility and encourage students’ choice. The link between sports high school, sport and education also allows a reflection on the causes that determine the high rate of early voluntary abandonment of sports activities of new generations, after their enthusiastic initial adhesions. Sport, in fact, still finds great difficulty to be considered a cultural object able to contribute to the education.