Ginástica para todos na educação física escolar: significados da prática na ótica discente

Abstract

Gymnastics is recognized as one of the great contents of the movement's body culture, and understood as of great value in the development of the motor repertoire. However, although in the past gymnastics has been overvalued, even naming various practices beyond their current meaning, and encompassing what we now call Physical Education, it has today been little found in school. Starting from this observation, we propose to take gymnastics to the school through Gymnastics for All, with the methodology of work tried in Gymnarteiros, that aims to contribute to the human formation through the training, in the case the contents of the gymnastics, and to show one of the possibilities To overcome non-gymnastics at school. This research investigated the meanings attributed by the students to the practice of Gymnastics for All in the classes of Physical Education in a school in Fortaleza - CE, the subjects of this research were 8 students of the 1st year of High School. The criterion for choosing this population was the ability to elaborate answers to the questions made from the intervention and the participation in at least three of the four classes applied. This research, of qualitative character, counted on data collection through semi-structured interview and field diary. For the interpretation of the data obtained in the interviews, the content analysis technique of Bardin (2011) was used. In this way, what can be concluded is that the students attributed different meanings to the classes, in which the socialization aspects with 26% of the units stand out, pleasure for the activity with 18%, followed by the category of corporal development that counts on 13% of the Units of meaning. These categories present meanings related to the principle of human formation that underlies the proposal and relation with the principle of training also fundamental in it. In addition to contributing to the human training of students through their training, they correspond to the GfA values affirmed by the FIG, as a practice oriented to leisure, development of physical condition, physical, social and psychological well-being, among others, that Leads to the conclusion that GfA with a pedagogical proposal can be a great tool to overcome "non-gymnastics" in school.