A influência do movimento renovador em aulas de educação física de escolas municipais do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

As criticism towards the school Physical Education (SPE) perspective dedicated to physical aptitude and technical-sports development which was quite common up to the 1970s, new teaching proposals started appearing in the 1980s, with the purpose of bringing Physical Education closer to the true purposes of school and received the name of SPE renewal movement. Through the years, these teaching proposals were incorporated into undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as official education documents. Nowadays, it would be expected that Brazilian SPE classes would mostly represent the renewal movement s proposals but, paradoxically, we have seen only diffuse and even random interventions, predominantly represented by a play along attitude. Confronted with the necessity of investing in renewing practices and seeking to abolish the type of study that merely denounces expired practices, this study sought out teachers that, aligned with the renewal proposals, attempt to teach SPE classes that adhere to and represent said didactical-methodological knowledge. As such, we aimed to investigate the influence of the renewal movement on the pedagogical interventions of five physical education teachers in Rio de Janeiro s municipal education network. The study is divided in three complementary articles. The first one involves the main question and a literature review. The second one seeks to identify what the teachers think of the renewal movement. Finally, the third article brings the analysis of 20 SPE classes taught by the five teachers. The analysis was performed through a systematic observation sheet with didactical-methodological indicators suggested by Resende and Nascimento (2004), as well as through an interview conducted with the teachers regarding didactical and methodological questions as well as criticism of the interventions. We found that, although most interventions had distinct characteristics, most interventive actions were close to the indicators in the planning, objective, content, method, evaluation and teacher-student relationship categories. All teachers criticized their classes, believing they should be better and more varied than they usually are, representing limitations in the interventive field and their commitment to the quality of the interventions. We believe that the data collected in this study represents yet another small step towards the discussion and construction of renewed practices in the field of SPE by researching and indicating possibilities, limitations and examples of concrete and didactical everyday actions.