Corpo, atividade física e egocentrismo: percurso de adolescentes da escola pública

Abstract

This work aims to demonstrate the guiding role and trainer to be exercised by the teacher of high school physical education, which through their classes should expose their students the dangers in the tireless search for the perfect body, so that, teens can develop and become critical citizens and discernment to know themselves, accepting the changes occurring in the body, which is in formation during this stage of life, as well as educate them to keep the body healthy. Methodologically the work involved a qualitative approach to field study, with grounding in the ideas of authors who deal with this issue, with which they had contact at the time of review of the literature. To this end, two questionnaires were executed, one for students and the other directed to the teacher, seeking to outline the profile of adolescents and their teachers, drawing and showing that the teaching applied by teachers in conducting their classes and as sure absorption by students of information transmitted in order to verify the reality experienced by Brazilian adolescents, with regard, in particular, the search for the perfect body and the effects produced by the standard of beauty imposed by the media in their daily lives . It was found that young Brazilians have become hostages of the body pattern socially accepted and, as a result, seek unceasingly achieve this standard, using even means that pose a risk to health without, however, measure the consequences of their actions. In addition, it was found that while the primary role of the physical education teacher is using his classes as a way of forming critical citizens and insight to use healthy practices, we still see that currently the information are being transmitted, however, without building knowledge