Abordagem alternativa para o ensino-aprendizagem-treinamento no basquetebol

Abstract

Basketball is one of the sports with most practitioners in the state of Ceará, regarding to the school environment. However, there are still traditionalist methodologies in the process of teaching-learning-training. This study aims to verify the level of game understanding in basketball with youngsters between 12 and 16 years old. The specific objectives of this study were: characterize the teaching-learning-training methods, to identify the decision-making evaluation instrument used in this study and to apply the tests to verify the students’ decision-making level in basketball. This study is a cross-sectional research, it was used in this research as an instrument the GPAI (Game Performance Assessment Instrument) method, designed by Oslin, Mitchell and Griffin (1998). This method has as function to evaluate the behaviors of game performance. The sample was composed by 28 students between 12 and 16 years old of the extension project named Solidary Basketball, placed on the Instituto de Educação Física e Esportes, at Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The results were that the most of the students have a tactical knowledge of basketball considered good for the age group, according to the classification of the experts, getting, mostly of them, good results. From the sample of 28 students, 10 of them have got weak results, 8 of them have got moderate results and 10 of them have got effective results, showing that the sample is very miscellaneous, encompassing students at the anarchic phase, to the students at the elaborated phase of the game. Regarding this diversity of game levels, it’s the fact of some of them have got previous experience with the basketball, mainly at the school environment, so they have a more developed technical/tactical notion than the others which were starting at the sport, corroborating with the study of some authors, where they speak that the experiences at the collective sports tend to increase the selection of the answer, the decision-makings and the tactical knowledge. Through this study, it’s possible to use other approaches to the teaching of basketball, leaving behind the traditional methods and going to the alternative methods, based on conditioned games, increasing the students’ technical/tactical knowledge. The GPAI method must be used to measure the level of the students’ game knowledge, so it’s possible to choose the best teaching strategies to the group or the team to be trained. New studies must be realized from this, above all in the state of Ceará, for basketball to develop even more, both in the school environment and in the performance environment, so it’s possible to form athletes and citizens through sport.