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RESUMENLa finalidad de este artículo es comprobar si las competencias de los programas de formación de algunas Facultades de Ciencias Motoras, en Italia, cubren las necesidades de los profesionales deportivos para atender las actividades físicas, recreativas y deportivas de los ciudadanos. Para ello, hemos desarrollado una metodología mixta desde instrumentos cualitativos y cuantitativos, como la entrevista semiestructurada y el cuestionario. Se entrevistó a 20 entrenadores y 3 responsables de proyectos de intervención educativa, cuyos resultados nos han evidenciado las competencias educativas fundamentales para dicha actividad profesional. Posteriormente, hemos diseñado un cuestionario aplicado a los estudiantes de 3º curso de tres Facultades de Ciencias Motoras italianas para conocer su grado de valoración de las competencias educativas que poseen los profesionales deportivos y cómo han sido adquiridas. Los entrevistados destacan 29 competencias fundamentales para el educador deportivo. La mayoría de ellos (84,4%) considera que posee dichas competencias.Palabras clave: deporte, educador deportivo, competencias educativas, formación universitaria de Ciencias Motoras. ABSTRACTThe aim of this article has been to identify the educational competences able to ensure that sport is truly an educational tool aimed at developing the well-being among youth. For this we have detected the competences that coaches and those who are responsible of educational projects think to be fundamental for their profession and if the same competences are usually developed in the curricula of the sport sciences department of Latium Region in Italy. The methodology used has been mixed, qualitative and quantitative, using data collection techniques such as semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. In the first step 20 sports coaches were interviewed and, 2 people responsible, in Italy, of two educational projects focused on sport and social intervention. The results of the interviews allowed us to construct a questionnaire that was submitted to the students of the third year of the Bachelor's degree course in physical education and sports. The results of the quantitative phase of this research have shown that most students consider as essential, to their future work, the 29 educational competences arising from the content analysis of the interviews that have been analysed in the qualitative phase. The data show that 84.4% of the students interviewed have declared to possess the educational competences but that these have been acquired outside university.

The education of children is important because it determines the future of the world. Teachers have a great responsibility for this, which applies to every subject taught. In this regard, teachers usually specialize in a specific area and greatly influence how the subject is taught and how students gain a view of the subject. The present study aimed to investigate teachers’ attitudes about subjects in primary school, with a particular focus on physical education. The sample of participants (N = 111) included Croatian female primary school teachers with a mean age of 47.88 (±8.11 SD) years and a mean teaching experience of 21.83 (±10.24 SD) years. The variable sample consisted of a three-criteria questionnaire for the assessment of classroom subjects: (i) the importance of a subject (importance); (ii) the level of qualifications obtained during study for a subject (qualification); and (iii) the teacher’s competence for teaching (competence). Significant differences were found in the assessment of classroom subjects. The group of core academic subjects has noticeably higher assessments than the group of practical and artistic subjects. The assessment of teachers’ competence in PE teaching is the lowest of all the classroom subjects. Further research of classroom teachers’ attitudes towards the implementation of physical education is advised, with an increased number of participants and the inclusion of new measures.

Literature highlights how education in the twenty-first century begins to advocate multiple new concepts, such as new technology, new pedagogies, interdisciplinary curricula, open learning, etc. Among these concepts, the recognition and awareness about one’s character strengths are demonstrated to improve emotional management and individual/group’s quality of life. We studied three fifth-grade Italian classes using an emerging educational model called IARA to verify if it can truly improve emotional literacy, characters strengths awareness, and cohesion in ten-years children. To demonstrate its efficacy, we used Bloom’s Taxonomy and Sociogrammatic study. We proved that the IARA could be an efficient model to improve one’s character strengths and class milieu awareness.