A Educação Física no contexto escolar: uma experiência interdisciplinar no ensino fundamental

Abstract

Formal education held in schools, it suffers from increasing fragmentation and specialization of disciplines, which complicates the construction of contextual knowledge, that addresses the needs of the education of the student. The interdisciplinary, seeks to develop, through teaching activities, globalization and the significance of knowledge, breaking the boundaries of disciplines in search of an interaction that allows the cooperation of content, methods and concepts. Physical education for their specific content and features, has to take responsibility collaborating on this educational process. This research, entitled "Physical Education in the school context: an interdisciplinary experience in elementary education ", aimed at analyzing the knowledge and interdisciplinary activities implemented by elementary school teachers, analyze interdisciplinary activities proposed for the teachers of 3rd and 4th grade Elementary School and Professor of Physical Education, and check the influence of this interdisciplinary work in the classroom. The study was undertaken through an action research, based on the organization and systematization of interdisciplinary activities and later extracted from the content analysis interviews. These results pointed to the improvement of practice, underpinned by a better organization and systematization of interdisciplinary activities in partnership with the Physical Education teacher. It was concluded that physical education contributed positively in interdisciplinary activities, assisting the teaching of elementary school teachers.