A corporeidade na formação inicial: O contexto da temática nos cursos de Educação Física das universidades federais do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The present study has the general objective of understanding how the theme of corporeality permeates the initial training of Physical Education in federal universities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the specific objectives of verifying the understanding of the institution's teachers about the theme of corporeality and its relevance for Physical Education, investigating the presence of the theme of corporeality in the curriculum of each of the universities and discussing the importance of the Structuring Teaching Centers of Physical Education and the discussions held in this space. The research finds the field of qualitative research, characterized descriptively, being a study of multiple cases. Our study includes the participation of 14 teachers from the Núcleos Docentes Estruturantes two courses of Physical Education from the federal universities of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews and forums conducted by the researcher herself in person and on-line. The analysis of two data was conducted by the content analysis. This research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Pelotas. Most of the interviewees attended initial training at the federal universities of Rio Grande do Sul in the 1980s and did not begin in 2000. In relation to the presence of the body in their trajectories, we find professors who report a sportive initial training, or that resulted from a lack of contact with the corporeidade theme during that period, for the teachers themselves, to begin their professional career foram presented to the corporeidade studies. Other teachers report that the topic was mentioned in some disciplines during training, but they did not arouse interest in them and ended up not working with it. For this reason, some subjects experience that they conheceram corporeidade during their initial and post-graduações formations through two writings by some authors in the area. In relation to the conceito that the interviewees possuem da corporeidade um group sinalizou que a corporeidade is associated with relations with their own body and with other individuals and/or with a society; Other participants relate to the way we present ourselves to the world; Other teachers also define corporeality as an aspect of uniqueness. Not that it says respect to the relevance of the subject for Physical Education, most of the teachers consider corporeidade as essential, fundamental and central. For this reason, some of the subjects interviewed highlight the relevance of corporeidade within Physical Education with a question of respect; From another perspective, some teachers place movement as the central focus of Physical Education and that together with corporeidade they become the center of two studies in the area. Responses were also found that place corporeality as relevant in Physical Education to think about the body as two subjects for biological food and others place corporeality as a field of study like so many others.