Developing novel life skills and experiences: a pilot study with Functional Advanced Didactics

The pandemic has produced profound changes in teaching activities, with consequences on the educational processes and social development of students. In this sense, the following contribution explores the potential of Advanced Functional Didactics (DAF), a didactic proposal that aims to deliver traditional didactic contents through motor activity. Carried out in a difficult social context, namely the IC Ristori of Naples, located in the Forcella district, the study involves a second class of primary school and a first class of lower secondary school. The experimental hypothesis of this research is that the introduction of the DAF can bring benefits to the physical, psychological, social and learning abilities of the learners. This pilot study was the first to carry it out, thus proposing to verify the impact of this methodology on students to collect useful responses to improve it.