Corpo: suas representações na formação do professor de educação física

Abstract

This work was mainly questioning whether a degree in Physical Education has accompanied changes in sociocultural slant why this happened and what area of the body representations have been conveyed in the training process. Since the 1980 Physical Education has been undergoing changes that began whit criticism of the paradigm of physical fitness and sport. This criticism led to a shift in thinking about the area, the predominant biological began to be questioned, highlighting the sociocultural issue of Physical Education. In this context, the Physical Education was defined as the area that deals with the cultural manifestations of the human being, expressed by the human body and movement, and which are historically defined as gambling, sports, dancing, wrestling and gymnastics. Therefore, the need to study representations of the body that has been in process of formation veiculas in Physical Education, is justified by the fact that it is from the social representations that have on the body, these professionals to build pedagogical actions in relative to the body, so that consideration be given cultural context within which this body is inserted. We set our goals in this research see which dimensions of the body have been addressed in the process of teacher education in Physical Education. Specifically we sought to understand how the body is treated in the political pedagogical project of the course, knowing the profile of graduates provided by the course; grasp the meaning of the body presented by the teacher, and see which dimensions of the body have been worked by disciplines and how they contribute to the profile of graduates. This research took place within a degree course in Physical Education from a private institution, located in the state of São Paulo. Has the qualitative case study. The procedures for data collection were document analysis, questionnaire, interview and written testimony. The participants were twelve professors of the course, which answered the questionnaire, the written statement and interview. The results we got revealed that the sociocultural dimension of the body has been privileged by political pedagogical project of the course and the disciplines that make up the curriculum. Teachers have studied representations of the body that take into account the influence of society and culture on the body, working from this perspective in their disciplines. The profile of the graduate course is provided by the professional trained to work in Physical Education and the disciplines contribute to the formation of this profile professional trainees in developing specific skill and abilities.