O futebol como possibilidade para uma educação física escolar antirracista

Abstract

This research develops a pedagogical intervention that uses Football as an instrument of awareness and criticality to combat racism within the scope of Physical Education at School. Its general objective is to analyze the implementation of a proposed pedagogical intervention in Physical Education classes in the final years of Elementary School, problematizing racist manifestations in Football, while the specific objectives are to understand students' perceptions about racism and football, promote criticality through problematizing racism in Football and combat racism in Physical Education classes by raising student awareness about its manifestations. The research methodology used is qualitative and its procedures are such as ones of participatory research. The intervention was carried out in an 8th year class in the final years of Elementary School in a municipal public school in Fortaleza-CE with 34 students in a mixed group and it lasted 5 weeks. To implement the intervention, the educational product Ensino dos Esportes a partir da Perspectiva Progressista: Uma proposta de Unidade Didática was used (Ramos, Maffei. 2020). This proposal is organized into the following subdivisions: a) initial social practice; b) problematization; c) instrumentation; d) catharsis and e) final social practice. The instruments used in the research were the questionnaire as a form of diagnosis, the field diary, which was used in order to record the teacher-researcher's observations and other students' statements, and the semi-structured interview. The pedagogical product developed was a blog and an Instagram profile. As a result, we noticed that the problematization of football counted for attracting students' attention and acceptance in discussing a sensitive topic such as racism. During the intervention, a decrease in racist speech was recorded in this class and when it happened, the other students quickly intervened, thus demonstrating the awareness achieved through the intervention.