Educação física e saúde coletiva: práticas de uma formação acadêmica

Abstract

This research deals with the formation in Physical Education focused on Health and the performance of this professional in programs of Health Public/Collective, has the general objective analyze how is proceeding the formation process in Physical Education during the graduation, taking into consideration particularly the focus given to the Health area and how graduate students is within this scenario, has the intention to identify possible gaps in the educational system and eventual means of solving this problematic. Data were obtained through semi open questionnaires applied in fifteen students the last period of the course of Physical Education of the Federal University of Ceará of both modalities (honors degree and bachelor degree) and later analyzed in the mold of the Content Analysis methodology, where is made present the process of categorization, description and interpretation of the data in the course of analysis. The results obtained confirm the supposed existence of a gap in the graduation process in Physical Education when we give a focus on the area of Health, however, the same also shows that this responsibility not only rests with the management of the courses, but also in the interest of the students in seeking for a more complete formation, that aggregate knowledges about all the possible areas of action of the Professional of Physical Education and on the guidelines that come from teachers to addressing this theme