The teacher of Physical Education in Primary School: legal issues and possible perspectivess

Abstract

For a long time it has been discussed on compulsory of physical education subject in primary school by specialist teachers who have a degree in exercise and sport sciences. After many physical education projects, at the least “Sport di classe”, and the expectation of employing the generalist teacher with certified skills of the so-called “Good School” law, the Chamber of Deputies of Italian Republic approved a draft law to resolve the issue definitively. However, due to the stratification of more laws, the acquired rights of whom are in possession of framework qualifications according to previous rules and for furthermore political and scientific visions, nowadays the main problem is the multiple competences in this field. The aim study is to identify the training program of the teachers to identify the most appropriate profile according to educational aims of the National Guidelines for the Curriculum for primary school and respecting the purposes of the draft cited law project. The method is the archive research with document analysis. The results point about the specialist graduate in physical education and sports sciences with the certification of 24 ECTS in the anthropology-psychology-pedagogical area, according to the specialist teacher idea. The legislator and the political decision-maker have to apply the results to avoid running into application difficulties, generated also because of other solutions, which would produce a discrepancy between a specialist in physical education and sports sciences and a specialized teacher from a generalist education program.