PLuRALE project - Physical LiteRAcy in Lifelong Education

The concept of physical literacy is rapidly gaining consensus across the globe. Currently, physical literacy is not only seen as the result of physical education but as a concept of health and well-being throughout life, and is therefore gaining importance in educational, medical, psychological and social field. Physical literacy, in other words, seems to define a common denominator and a common sense horizon to a set of studies (and practices) that, in the international context, acquire a wide variety of denominations: sport science, exercise science, human performance, movement science, human kinetics, kinesiology, kinanthropology, athropomotorics, anthropokinetics, anthropokinesiology, health, physical education, physical culture, recreation, leisure studies, coaching, athletic training, adapted physical education, sport management (Čustonja, Milanović, & Sporiš, 2009). The work intends to present a unitary approach to the concept of literacy, developing its various and complementary declinations. The shift from skills to literacy implies further advancement towards a holistic conception of the human being and its interaction in the world as a key to a full and satisfying life (Whitehead, 2010). From this perspective, the paper deals with "old" and new literacies, investigating how the current situation challenges the idea of different "literacies" as a different set of skills in various fields of knowledge in favor of a unitary, but more global and complex, meaning of literacy as the ability to "read" and "write" our own living environment. These are the premises of the PLuRALE project - Physical LiteRAcy project in Lifelong Education, starting at the University of Salerno, presented at the end of the paper