Paper Title
THE METHODOLOGICAL DEVICE OF “PRETEXT”: 3RPLAY’S EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES FOR THE CONVERGENCE OF SCHOOL AND SPORTS TARGETS

Abstract
Abstract - The current experience is characterised by a lack of stable reference points. In Arendtian language, we can say that we are walking down a staircase without a handrail. This is not necessarily a negative condition. A conquest always furthers the constant reconfiguration of our limits and the opening up of possibilities once considered impossible.The criteriacannot be fixed as that risks responding to problems no longer recognised as such or not responding to current problems. Change conceived and experienced as overcoming requires skills capable of seeking - in the situation - the solution that most authentically maintains a 'human balance'. These are non-cognitive skills such as reflection, critical judgement, imagination, comprehension, creativity. They are skills that cannot be measured and acquired. On the contrary, they are skills exercised through educational reflective practices. Starting from Schönian premises, the paper proposes the methodology of 3RPlay (reflecting, researching, replying), a version of reflective practices centred on the innovative device of the pretext. The pretext is a suspended situation. It is functional that the pretext is situational: the skills of reflection, understanding, judgement ... can only be exercised if they are involved in a lived scenario. The pretext must also be suspended: non-cognitive skills must not find predefined questions or early answers. The pretext exercises non-cognitive skills by acting as a stumbling block, as a labyrinth, and as an exit.It makes one notice something, it allows one to dwell on something and it encourages one to take a stand. The applicability of the pretext as a support for the development of the skills required to meet the current challenges will be argued through the presentation of a project in schools (for the training of teachers in innovative didactics) and sports (for the training of coaches in the educational relationship). Keywords - Change, Non-cognitive Skills, Educational Practice, School, Sports,