Introduction

This volume contains 35 contributions and is divided into three parts: Re search (10); Best Practices (13); Situation (12). Research develops direction-oriented approaches to learn to play in different educational contexts and the effects of play for learning and motor development of children and young people.Best Practices contains the studies and educational experiences carried out through different methodological approaches and for learning motor and social skills in the direction of play to learn, analyzing the role of teacher behaviour in promoting inclusion and testing new teaching strategies, particularly in the school curriculum. Situation presents the contributions on Game Education and on the analysis of the processes of transition from Game to Sport, regarding the development of the process of motor learning, adapted teaching methodologies and the transfer ability of motor skills, the role of contexts-spaces-environments. Each essay does not propose a closed or bound subject but proposes interdis ciplinary and transversal openings that broaden and contextualize the educa tional values of the Game. All the contributions, while starting from common pedagogical and didactic meanings, express interdisciplinary links and method ological and contextual intersections. The fundamental and inescapable role of the Game in the formative process of each person emerges and is confirmed as an experience that can be identified in each culture through different organizational and methodological-contextual modalities.