Bio-psycho-social approach to motor-sport activities in educational field: a multidimensional functioning

Physical activity and sport are not only a form of disease prevention and way to reduce sedentary lifestyle, but they become the essential sine qua non conditio to achieving bio-psycho-social well-being. According to recent neuroscientific studies, they contribute to the integral growth of the person, involving a series of elements, biological, psychological and social. Through a parallelism with the ICF, this contribution aims to frame sport in a bio-psycho-social perspective. The integrated analysis of these three dimensions, will highlight the need to overcome the reductionism of the individual components, taking advantage of the usefulness of a multidimensional approach, considering the global functioning of the individual in the environment, in activity and participation (WHO, 2001; 2007). Neurosciences intend to explain how «our brain represents, imitates, learns, plans, orders, controls, and performs motor activity, as well as an organized complex of movements, acts and actions» (Mandolesi, 2012, p. 26). This integrated perspective, applied in educational field, could provide an in-depth reading key, highlighting aspects often hidden within the dynamic and non-linear trajectories typical of motor-sport activities, promoting more effective personalized educational planning.