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THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF SPORT IN INCLUSIVE AND 
COMMUNITY-ORIENTED CONTEXTS 

 
Prof. Edidiong Grace Etuk 

Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria 

 
Keywords:     

Motor Education,  
Inclusion, Educational 
Integration,  
Disability and Sport  
  
  

ABSTRACT   
This paper explores the role of motor and sports activities as vital tools for 
fostering social inclusion and promoting holistic well-being. Recognized for 
their educational and formative value, such activities transcend age, gender, 
and physical or mental conditions, making them universally accessible and 
impactful. An inclusive approach to sport emphasizes education and 
participation at all levels—from early physical education to specialized 
athletic practice—ensuring that every individual, regardless of ability or 
background, can develop and thrive. 
Particular attention is given to the participation of individuals with 
disabilities or those facing social, economic, or psychological disadvantages. 
In these contexts, sport becomes a transformative space for identity 
recognition and community integration. This perspective marks a shift from 
traditional, performance-centered paradigms of sport towards a more 
inclusive, value-based model that centers on personal growth, social 
cohesion, and respect for diversity. 
Moreover, the integration of sport within educational systems reflects a 
broader European commitment to leveraging physical activity for 
community development, as formalized in EU policy since 2007. Team sports, 
in particular, embody key social principles such as cooperation, respect for 
rules, and the pursuit of collective goals, mirroring the fundamental aims of 
education itself. Thus, sport is not merely a leisure activity, but a structured, 
pedagogical process that nurtures civic values, self-discipline, and mutual 
respect. 
Ultimately, motor and sports education must be fully incorporated into 
educational strategies, including special pedagogy, to cultivate inclusive 
environments that support the development of every individual's full 
potential—especially those from marginalized or disadvantaged groups. 

 
  
Introduction   

In contemporary educational discourse, motor and 

sports activities have emerged as pivotal tools not 

only for physical development but also for fostering 

inclusion and social cohesion. These activities carry a 

formative and educational significance that 

transcends demographic boundaries, offering 

valuable benefits to individuals regardless of age, 

gender, socio-economic status, or the presence of 

physical, cognitive, or psychological disabilities. In 

this context, motor-sports activities are increasingly 

being recognized for their potential to support 

inclusive education and serve as a strategic means of 

countering marginalization and promoting the 

holistic development of individuals (Gomez & 

Sgambelluri, 2013). 

The transformative potential of motor and sports 

activities lies in their dual capacity: on one hand, they 

foster individual growth, resilience, and self-esteem; 

on the other, they cultivate social skills, cooperation, 

and empathy within a collective setting. Such 

activities are particularly significant in educational 

environments where diversity is the norm, offering a 

structured yet flexible means for individuals to 

 



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interact, learn, and thrive together. Physical 

education, when implemented inclusively, 

encourages students to recognize and value 

differences, thereby reinforcing the principles of 

equity and mutual respect. 

From a policy perspective, the social and educational 

dimensions of sport have gained increasing 

recognition at the European level. Since the late 

1990s, and especially following the 2007 Treaty on 

the Functioning of the European Union, sport has 

been acknowledged not merely as a recreational or 

competitive endeavor but as a strategic sector capable 

of contributing to social inclusion, lifelong learning, 

and civic engagement. The EU has emphasized the 

importance of sport's educational function and its 

alignment with broader social objectives, especially 

through volunteerism and community-based 

initiatives. 

1. Pedagogical and didactic aspects of sport   

The socio-educational connotation of motor-sports 

activity is now promoted internationally as a tool for 

inclusion.  It also accompanies a reshaping of the 

concept of health in compliance with the indications 

of the World Organization of Holiness (WHO) which, 

therefore, leads to understanding sport as an 

educational strategy aimed at acquiring correct 

lifestyles.  

In its inclusive purpose, at the level of international 

organizations, there are numerous declarations and 

initiatives promoted to recognize and spread the 

educational importance of "sport for all".   

In relation to this, education to the practice of sport 

represents a path that winds at different levels, from 

the initial motor education to the introduction to 

sport and its specialized practice, on a continuum 

that allows everyone, without prejudice and 

distinction of any kind, to place himself and proceed 

according to the maturity of his function 

(Nuangchalerm & Prachagool, 2010). If the 

promotion of a "sport for all" is rooted in a conception 

of sport that goes beyond the purely competitive-

professional one, the practice of sport by people with 

disabilities, or with any other form of physical, social, 

economic or psychological "deficit", needs a 

paradigm that lays the foundations for the 

recognition of the entire identity and social inclusion. 

It is necessary to grasp the elements that reorient the 

operation of a subject towards horizons of a necessary 

normalization, placed at the base of the educational 

processes and inclusion of people, throughout the life 

span (Whitehead, 2013).  

The human being, in fact, acts based on a thought, an 

intentionality, and his action is expressed through 

intelligent behaviors of adaptation to everyday life 

situations, work, sports and leisure.   

Motor and sports education allows to satisfy in a 

productive way some needs of man related to the 

gaming experience: movement, competition and 

group and team life. In addition, from the earliest 

years of age, those who perform regular physical 

activity, from group or individual sports to outdoor 

games or pure physical-motor activity, show greater 

confidence in their possibilities, are led to greater 

self-esteem, ease in social relationships, greater 

tolerance of stress, and are less likely to manifest 

disorders such as anxiety and depression, 

automatically stimulating inclusive processes 

(Arvanitis, 2018).   

Several studies have shown how the constant practice 

of sports or motor activity produces beneficial effects 

on different functions that impact both at an inclusive 

level, but above all on the personal and relational 

sphere: learning, development of cortical areas and 

functions and academic performance. The 

performance of motor and sports activities for the 

disabled person, or who is in situations of physical, 

economic or social disadvantage, represents the 

exaltation of his abilities, albeit residual, and of what 

he can do, in a world that always reminds him of what 

he is not able to be and what he lacks. Carraro (2004), 

in fact, states that “moving towards inclusion means 

allowing all those who approach motor and sports 

practice to reach a basic level of technical skills, to feel 

pleasure in the commitment and effort produced and 

not to be excluded as less suitable" (Ghedin, 2009). 

In this sense, the introduction to motor and / or 

sports practice of subjects who present intellectual 

and / or mental, relational, social problems, etc., aims 

to promote social integration, inclusion, self-esteem 

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diseases and improve the quality of life. What has 

been analyzed thus highlights the importance of 

promoting sports and motor activity also in the 

school context, at any level, so that the inclusive 

objective is pursued towards those who are 

characterized by the request, implicit or explicit, of 

Special Educational Needs (BES) (Holly, 2020). 

Sport represents a fundamental element on an 

emotional, social and inclusive level, consisting of a 

multidimensional, dynamic, playful environment 

suitable for intensifying the awareness of oneself and 

one's body. Integration and inclusion are the 

objectives, sport is the vehicle, because it assigns to 

each one a precise role in a collective context, such as 

the school context that manages to break down the 

barriers and walls that are created outside, because in 

sport we are all equal.  Sport is characterized by 

having the same rules for everyone regardless of the 

ethnicity and culture of the individual; It represents a 

neutral field of confrontation capable of putting 

everyone on the same level. The process that led to 

the integration of disabled people into sports was 

long and very tortuous (Haegeler & Suterland, 2015). 

Initially, competitive sports were forbidden to the 

disabled and there is news of the first competitions in 

which they were able to participate only around 1920. 

Only after the Second World Warthere was a greater 

opening due above all to the large number of war 

invalids, which favored the spread of sporting activity 

with therapeutic purposes. In 1960, in Rome, the first 

Paralympics were held thanks to Dr. Antonio Maglio, 

who understood that some sports could be able to 

prolong the life expectancy of patients, improve 

lifestyle by promoting the social inclusion of disabled 

people. Subsequently, in 1974, there was the birth of 

the National Association of Italian Paraplegic  

Sports (ANSPI) which, four years later, became the 

Italian Federation of Handicapped Sports (FISHa), 

which was annexed to CONI in 1981. In the following 

years, many individual federations were born merged 

into the Italian Federation of Disabled Sports (FISD) 

in 1990, an event that allowed to give equal dignity, 

in sports, to physical, sensory, intellectual, and 

relational disabilities. The circle was closed in 2005 

with the birth of the C.I.P. (Italian Paralympic 

Committee) that is the confederation of Paralympic 

sports federations, recognized as a public body in 

2015.  

2. Inclusion processes in schools  

The theme of inclusion, as argued so far, is certainly 

an issue that, especially in recent years, is crucial in 

the school context. Italy was among the first countries 

to choose the path of integration of pupils with 

disabilities in ordinary classes. We have therefore 

moved from a situation of complete exclusion to 

special schools intended exclusively for "different" 

children, to the integration of the same within the 

common classes up to the achievement of inclusion 

processes. Diversity cannot be considered an 

obstacle, but a fundamental resource for the whole 

class group and essential to promote learning 

processes. We can talk about inclusion only when 

everyone feels they are appreciated and their 

participation is not suffered but is instead welcome. 

The inclusive classroom is an important point of 

arrival for the school and the pupil with disabilities 

can take great advantage of the companion resource, 

an essential component not only cognitive, but also 

social and affective (European Agency for Special 

Needs and Inclusive Education, 2017). The inclusive 

school is the one that allows all students not only to 

feel part of the group to which they belong, but also 

to reach the highest possible level thanks to those 

differences that allow everyone's growth, through a 

process of great personal enrichment. Inclusive 

teaching aims to create an inclusive climate, first 

respecting and accepting these diversities. The 

teaching staff will have to try to adapt their teaching 

style, also modifying their ongoing strategies and, 

if necessary, find points of connection between the 

programming. It will also have to always try to 

develop a cooperative approach (trying, for example, 

to use innovative methodologies such as cooperative 

learning   and peer tutoring), enhancing the forms of 

expression and favoring the creation of relational 

networks between school, family, health specialists 

and territorial services. At the center of an inclusive 

educational action there is always the person because 

we are talking about an education for everyone, which 

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logic of integration to that of inclusion does not 

simply mean making room for everyone, but it means 

putting each student at the center of all educational 

action by rethinking what the concept of curriculum 

is. Among the general principles of inclusion we have, 

first, the acceptance of diversity, the development of 

collaborative practices, the active participation of all 

and a school that becomes different, that is, that 

learns and promotes change and development. 

Starting from some regulatory references, we can 

certify that our school system was the first in Europe 

to introduce the generalized school inclusion of 

pupils with disabilities and was not limited to this. 

With the subsequent issuance of specific guidelines, 

it has also clarified the principles relating to the 

inclusion of pupils with SLD (Specific Learning 

Disorders) to the point of giving organizational 

indications on the inclusion of those children who are 

not certifiable neither with disabilities nor with DSA, 

but who have specific learning difficulties due to 

personal, family and socio-environmental 

disadvantage. The synthesis of these choices can be 

found within the Legislative Decree of 13 April 2017, 

n.66, Rules for the promotion of school inclusion of 

students with disabilities, where it is stated that 

inclusion concerns everyone and responds to 

different educational needs by realizing itself through 

specific educational strategies aimed at developing 

the potential of each, improving their quality of life 

through the commitment of all those involved,  from 

the school community, to families to local authorities, 

to achieve the educational success of all. Inclusion 

therefore takes the form of a route to follow, starting 

from the construction of contexts populated by 

multiple diversities and therefore by special needs. 

Special pedagogy promotes the appreciation of these 

diversities that are unique and that concern 

individuals. In this perspective, motor-sports activity 

can constitute that specific context in which it is 

possible to really experience inclusive education. The 

sporting experience, formative from an educational 

point of view, becomes a precious opportunity for 

active participation and equality of opportunity for all 

people. Both the playful and the athletic-motor 

dimension, closely interconnected with each other, 

give sport a high educational value.   Within the 

motor-sports context we can identify a series of 

strongly educational elements such as: the 

continuous relationship with a reference adult, ie the 

coach; order, discipline, respect for the rules and 

others; teaching / learning of a particular sports 

discipline; the educational value of victory and 

defeat; the will to improve and motivation (Peacock, 

2014).  

On the cognitive level, we improve the knowledge of 

our body, the space that surrounds us, the 

management of time and speed, in relation to certain 

motor acts. On the physical level there are a series of 

benefits that concern the improvement of muscle 

strength, balance, motor coordination thanks. On a 

purely sporting level, technical knowledge in relation 

to the various sports disciplines and that of the 

regulations improves. On the psychological level, a 

sense of personal satisfaction is produced that favors 

discipline and training, leading to greater selfcontrol 

about emotional states. On the socio-educational 

level, levels of personal autonomy increase, with 

subjects who are more stimulated to perform acts 

aimed at a specific purpose.   

3. Sport and Physical Activity as tools for 

inclusion in the pedagogical process  

 The real inclusion of students with disabilities at 
school, during motor and sports activity, is still a 
process in development and there are, 
unfortunately, several critical issues that do not 
allow it to be fully realized. Sport and, therefore, 
physical education at school, offer each student 
the opportunity to express themselves and 
communicate through the body, their way of 
being and one's own identity understood as a 
kind of Photography of personal experiences and 
experiences. Sport and physical education can 
unite, to bring people together. Especially These 
benefits concern the so-called sports education, 
that is, the sporting experience that is deviates 
from competitive or professional dynamics 
because, in that case, the risk is to result in the 
opposite effect of that relating to education 
(Coates & Vickerman, 2013). The guidelines for 
physical, motor and sports education activities in 
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sport requires the person to get involved in a 
total way, stimulating him to seek both the tools 
and the strategies suitable for address and 
overcoming your difficulties. This definition does 
not only refer to able-bodied children, but it 
applies to everyone, even for students with 
disabilities. And it is precisely in this direction 
that the school has the duty to develop the sports 
culture to ensure that students develop healthy 
values, those values that only sport can convey 
and promote constantly.   
Through these values it is possible to improve 

aggregation, integration, and socialization both 

at school and in society (Bergamini et al., 2015). 

Everyone must actively participate in motor-

sports activity, and it is right that disabled 

children are also protagonists of the action and 

not only present in the gym. The practice of 

sport, as previously stated, brings countless 

benefits. It allows, for example, to satisfy a series 

of typical human needs concerning the playful 

experience, the one linked to movement and 

being in a group, all achievable through sport. An 

extremely important factor is the improvement 

of residual potential in all degrees of disability, 

achievable through physical activity (Qi, 2012; 

Qi, 2018).   

Obviously, in relation to the severity of disability, 

there are improvements of different kinds but, in 

general, there are important effects on the 

quality of life of these subjects. There are also 

several studies that show that the constant 

practice of motor-sports activity has important 

benefits both on learning and on academic 

performance. The model of sport that, over the 

years, has matured thanks to the history of 

Italian integration, is that of "integrated sport for 

inclusion". The peculiarity of this model is 

certainly to link the concepts of sport and 

inclusive education in an indissoluble way. The 

maturation of this model took place within the 

world of special school pedagogy. Special 

pedagogy has allowed sport to be enriched from 

many points of view, with the aim of building an 

enhancing context that would allow a fair 

comparison between disabled people. Precisely 

in this context, a series of sports are inserted that 

can be traced back to a different model called 

"integrated sport". These particular sports are 

practiced by people with and without disabilities 

through some differentiations that allow 

everyone to play together (Green, 2019). The 

source of inspiration that allowed the birth of 

these sports is attributable precisely to those 

principles of the school integration system, of an 

all-Italian matrix, a system that has allowed 

people with disabilities  to access and actively 

participate in the learning process within the 

classroom (Miola et al., 2021). Integrated sport, 

characterized by a fusion of sporting principles 

with principles related to special pedagogy, can 

be defined through a series of key elements: a) 

centrality of the person; (b) participation of 

persons with different health conditions; c) 

educational peculiarities; (d) roles defined on the 

basis of abilities and not disability; (e) flexible 

rules; f) recognizable and codified spaces and 

times; g) competitive spirit and healthy 

competition; (h) active participation and equal 

opportunities for all.  The evaluation, through 

motor tests of what the subject can actually do at 

the motor level, is the basis of the attribution of 

roles that takes place by differentiation not 

changing the structure of the game,  but 

managing to meet the needs of the individual 

with activities that are at their level and that push 

him to try to improve himself (Koh,  2021). Also 

in this case, we can find a parallel with Special  

Pedagogy. Inclusion is achieved when the pupil 

with disabilities is not removed from the 

classroom, but when he willingly accepts a task 

specially created for him and can also make his 

contribution by working in groups, within a 



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serene atmosphere where he is respected and 

considered. In integrated sport everyone trains 

following personal schemes but does so to give 

life, during the game, to a team game that will 

allow everyone to achieve success through the 

contribution of all. In summary, therefore, 

integrated sport is a set of organized motor 

activities, strongly educational and playful, 

which are based on a type of activity that is first 

of all cooperative and that aims to be also 

competitive to keep alive the original idea and 

the essence of sport. Everyone can participate 

actively and competently in this type of activity: 

people with severe disabilities, able-bodied 

people, men and women who, through the 

appropriate spaces, materials appropriate to the 

abilities and potential of each one, can see their 

abilities enhanced, actively participating and on 

the basis of equal opportunities through 

regulations that are always flexible.     

There are therefore three key elements: 

accessibility, active participation and equal 

opportunities, i.e. the guiding principles of an 

inclusive society. An example of an integrated 

sport is Baskin (Inclusive Basketball).  

4. Baskin: example of integrated sport  

Baskin is the quintessential example of 

integrated sport. It was born in a school in 

Cremona in 2003 thanks to the commitment and 

collaboration between parents, support teachers 

and physical education (Bodini et al, 2010). This 

collaboration soon spread throughout the 

surrounding area, giving rise to an important 

network and involving a large number of schools 

and associations. The success of Baskin led to the 

foundation, in 2006, of the Baskin Onlus 

Association, which is still today the reference 

point when referring to this type of activity. 

Baskin is a team sport that allows the 

simultaneous participation of children with 

disabilities and able-bodied. The term itself, 

chosen to give a name to this particular sporting 

activity, derives from the fusion of two words: 

"basketball" and "inclusive". The starting point 

of this sport is that of basketball as well as the 

purpose, that is to score more baskets than the 

opposing team. Each team is made up of both 

disabled and able-bodied players, each driven to 

give his best to contribute to the victory of the 

team in which he plays. The peculiarity is to allow 

the participation of children with any type of 

disability, from cognitive to physical, provided 

they can succeed, even in an ingenious way, to 

shoot the basket. In the same way, among the 

able-bodied, there may be basketball players, 

sportsmen from other disciplines or even 

sedentary people who are not used to sports. In 

addition to this, the teams are also 

heterogeneous from the point of view of age and 

gender.  All this is made possible by an extremely 

ingenious system of rules that allows the 

coexistence of many types of diversity, 

succeeding in the mission of including everyone 

while keeping intact the pulsating core of sport, 

that is the search for competition and that desire 

to give the maximum to be able to bring home the 

victory. In this way, even the able-bodied do not 

participate only as a charitable act towards 

disabled children: a sort of personalization of 

responsibility takes place, overcoming the 

spontaneous tendency to assume a welfare 

attitude because success really depends on 

everyone's commitment by highlighting the true 

value that diversity entails. As for adaptation, in 

Baskin it is carried out in four different areas:  

- Adaptation of the material, through the use of 

several baskets: two normal, positioned in a 

similar way to what happens in the game of 

basketball; two more places laterally (one higher 

and one lower) and decidedly lower.          In 

addition, even the ball can, appropriately, be 

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weight, just to allow children with severe 

disabilities to shoot the basket and contribute to 

the assignment of important points for the final 

result;  

- Adaptation of space, through "protected" 

lateral areas to allow shooting in the side 

baskets (high and low) mentioned above;  

- Adaptation of the rules, through predefined 

roles that are assigned according to the motor 

skills of the participants. This system is the 

fulcrum around which integrated sport is 

concretely realized. The roles are numbered 

from 1 to 5 and have specific regulations;  

- Adaptation of deliveries, through the possible 

assignment of a tutor, i.e. a player of the team 

who can accompany, directly or indirectly, his 

disabled companion when he is called to 

participate concretely in the game action.  

In 2017 an important memorandum of 

understanding was signed between the MIUR 

and the Baskin Onlus Association aimed at 

guaranteeing a fruitful collaboration over time. 

Obviously, the aim is to take care of the inclusion 

of students with disabilities through motor and 

sports activities, strengthening cognitive, 

relational and above all value skills, favoring the 

educational success of all.  

The aim is to collaborate in the development of 

the culture of social inclusion through 

interdisciplinary projects and experimental 

activities of motor activity, to be proposed during 

curricular or extra-curricular hours, to improve 

participation in the various activities of disabled 

pupils.   

Conclusions   

In recent decades we have witnessed the 

emergence of a terrain of confrontation and a 

space for common construction that has seen the 

conjugation, on the educational level, of 

apparently antithetical scientific traditions: a 

new bio-educational paradigm of didactic 

research based on the recognition of the 

relationship between mind, body, environment, 

artefacts and processes of knowledge.  

The school is a dynamic reality, open to 

differences and that requires the teacher to act in 

an inclusive way, appropriately reshaping their 

educational actions. Educational institutions, 

also through motor-sports activities, propose a 

rethinking of the experience of "doing school" 

achievable through the recognition of the 

centrality of the person as a unique and 

unrepeatable being. The practice of motor-sports 

education in the didactic context offers the 

possibility to express the potential of each 

student, thus becoming an inclusive learning 

environment, where the teacher's task is to 

design teaching methods and strategies through 

a flexible approach that can be customized and 

adapted to each student. To this end, the role of 

corporeality in teaching and learning processes is 

emphasized, giving motor-sports activity a 

transversal character.  

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