La Società Italiana di Educazione Motoria e Sportiva: neurodidattica e ricerca nelle scienze motorie

The SIEMeS (Società Italiana di Educazione Motoria e Sportiva) is a pedagogical scientific society born in 2015. The purpose of the Society is to promote, coordinate and encourage scientific research in the field of physical and sport education, with special regard to the development and teaching of theories, techniques and methodologies for physical and sport education. The most important field of research developed by the SIEMeS concerns the neurodidactics of motor activities, which represents a well-defined and promising area within physical training and sport sciences; nowadays, neurodidactics allows us to use scientific evidences regarding the functioning of the brain in order to optimize the traditional teaching-learning process. The main areas of research developed by the scientific Society concern: embodied and situational learning, motor activities and enjoyment, the role of information technologies in teaching, new perspectives for the development of open skills oriented towards self-efficacy and self-esteem, and the use of practice variability in teaching.