Ricerca educativa nella scuola primaria: attività motoria e relazionale a confronto

The physical education programs for primary school in 1985 is described in reference to the different dimensions of personality defining the goals, objectives and contents. The school, therefore, as part of an education aimed also to the socket of awareness of the value of the body, as an expression of personality and how condition relational, communicative, expressive, operational, thereby ensuring recreational and motor. From all this emerges as this form of expression is critical in human development, since the movement reveals details of our inner life. If the body is the instrument privileged rhythmic, dance is the favorite activities to promote the musical control of the movement, the language through which man expresses his inner world and enter into relationships with others. In school, the practice of physical activities and the acquisition of the consequent skills through the practice of dance collective is particularly effective, as favored by a dimension of fun and functional pleasure. In the dance, in fact, coordination, space and rhythm complement, are refined and harmonize through a process of collective game in a situation music. This contribution describes a research which aims to verify the positive influence motor activity, in particular of the dance, on capacity motor and social skills of the child. The following research project aims to demonstrate that it is possible through dance, in a fun and socializing, goals and improvements in motor and relational, it becomes a means of acquiring skills related to communication gestures and facial expressions, thanks to which the student will learn how to capture the flavor produced by his body, enhancing the ability to express their emotions and perceive those of others through gesture danced.