Sport e inclusione: l’esperienza del Rugby Mixed Ability nella prospettiva dell’Embodied Cognition Sport and inclusion: the experience of the Rugby Mixed Ability in the Embodied Cognition perspective

The purpose of this contribution is to highlight the prospects of study and research in a field, that is a border among sport, pedagogy and neuroscience, aimed to stimulate inclusive processes. The Embodied Cognition approach favours, especially, the relationship of “subjective dimensions” (the bodily and emotive-relational ones) with the inclusive dimension. The setting of the sport Mixed Ability is coherent and favourable to the realisation of the processes of learning and participation according to the model of the Embodied Cognition. A research project is therefore presented for the understanding and the application of the Rugby Mixed Ability’s activities, according to the pedagogical inclusive perspective. Lo scopo del presente contributo è quello di evidenziare le prospettive di studio e di ricerca in un campo, di confine tra sport, pedagogia e neuroscienze volte a potenziare i processi inclusivi. L’approccio dell’Embodied Cognition, in particolare, favorisce la messa in relazione delle “Subjective dimensions” (corporee ed emotivo-relazionali) con la dimensione inclusiva. Il setting dello sport Mixed Ability risulta coerente e favorevole alla realizzazione dei processi di apprendimento e partecipazione secondo il modello dell’Embodied Cognition. Viene pertanto presentato un progetto di ricerca per la comprensione e l’applicazione delle attività del Rugby Mixed Ability, secondo la prospettiva pedagogica inclusive