Game in Physical Education, Physical Activities and Sport of Children and Youth

The contributions (35) of the present book allow to appreciate interesting cultural approaches, studies and research on bodily-physical Game enjoying and comparing methodological-organizational applications in different countries. The Authors (97) have highlighted that the Game is an essential and unavoidable field of motor, emotional-affective and social learning to generate and multiply the experiences and relationships of children, promoting better adherence to physical activity during lifetime. Interdisciplinary approaches are obvious. The Game is born in the family, and it continues, expands and integrates with other ways of learning in school and educational contexts becoming sport; for each child it represents the carrier of all learning. The Game is a field of learning and socio-cultural inclusion and is also a field of research in which converge the themes characterizing various sciences that deserve to be valued and disseminated to guide good practices but require, everywhere, continuing teacher training, political and organizational support. The Game is configured as an operational scenario and educational environment of departure, the way of transit and the confluence of different measures/ actions of health promotion by different educational agencies (i.e., school, sport, religious centers, municipal offices) that coordinate policies on inclusion. Thanks to all the authors who responded to the call of the International Federation of Physical and Sport Education (FIEPS). FIEPS is an independent non-governmental organization which was founded in Brussels in 1923 and working now in 142 countries. In 2023 it celebrates 100th anniversary. It aims to collaborate with national and inter-national institutions and organizations for the promotion and development of physical and sport education, sport for all, recreational physical activities for the promotion of health and fitness, for all individuals of all ages and in different countries around the world. The FIEPS contributes to international cooperation among these areas while being a partner of numerous international organizations. FIEPS is ÒRecognized OrganizationÓ by IOC; FIEPS cooperates closely with UNESCO, ICSSPE, EUPEA, AIESEP, ISCPES, IAPESGW, IFAPA, CONFEJES and many other international bodies. Federation is constituted by Scholars, University Professors, Researchers, Physical Education Teachers, Sports Leaders, coming from various continents and countries gathered together by the awareness of the formative values of physical education and sport for the promotion of health and the childrenÕs educational process (https:///fieps.net/; https://www.fiepseurope.com/). We hope that the published contributions will foster further experiences of study and intercultural and interdisciplinary confrontation, thus providing a decisive impetus to the development policies of school physical education, sport and physical activities, to overcome any possible limit, still existing, structural, formative, organizational.