Questões de gêneros no esporte escolar: estudo da Escola Municipal GEO Juan Antonio Samaranch na perspectiva das diferenças

Abstract

This dissertation is a qualitative study on issues involving gender inequalities and other intersectional oppressions in school sport at a special school in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Historically, sport and Physical Education have been spaces that have denied the right to differences and have operated by contributing to the hegemonic standardization of bodies. The research looked for elements that would reveal school sports practices and competition experiences that could influence possible forms of prejudice and exclusion. The bibliography that anchored the studies focused on post-structuralist productions, understanding gender as a category of analysis, dialoguing with intersectional discussions that also involved race and class. We analyzed the official curricular matrix documents of the schools dedicated to sport, currently called Olympic Educational Gymnasiums, as well as the Juan Antonio Samaranch school's political pedagogical project. The work highlighted the speeches produced through the responses of the school's students, which revealed the proximity of the prejudiced reality of high sports performance with the school competitions experienced by the students. Although the researched school demonstrates progress in creating an environment of positive belonging and with more possibilities for leading roles for those who generally do not have space in bodily activities, the result pointed to school practices that, when working specifically with sports, often still produce a logic which operates in the reproduction of competitive sport, effectively demonstrating few strategies for confronting inequalities, oppression and exclusion.