Revisitando memórias: os sentidos da educação física escolar para ex-alunos trangêneros

Abstract

The general objective of this project is to identify the meanings that former transgender students attribute to Physical Education in their school memories. Its specific objectives are: to raise the memories that former transgender students retain from School Physical Education classes; review “Meaning” as a linguistic category; discuss historically the genesis of the “transgender” category, and characterize School Physical Education as a polysemic discipline. To this end, it uses the qualitative research method with a hermeneutic-phenomenological profile. The study population is made up of transgender individuals, over eighteen years of age, who attend weekly psychotherapy sessions offered by the Applied Psychology Service of the Trans Outpatient Institute in the city of Diadema - SP. Data collection took place in the first half of 2023, between the months of January and March, according to two approaches. First, a semi-structured interview with open answers was applied, focused on remembering the school period and past events experienced in Physical Education classes. These narratives were recorded and transcribed. Once this was done, the most striking meanings were identified and interpreted using Orlandi's (2002) discourse analysis technique. The identified meanings were also interpreted through the Dictionary of Symbols by Chevalier and Gheerbrant (2002). The study is justifiable because it aims to produce information that could be of value to School Physical Education professionals who, by chance, teach or will teach classes to transgender students. Another issue has to do with the observation that studies focusing on the dimension of implicit meanings in the narratives of memories of former students, whether they are transgender or not, are relatively fewer in number when compared to those that deal with explicit meanings. conveyed by such speeches. Therefore, the recognition of this gap and the importance of overcoming it justify the present investigation