Esporte na escola: uma avaliação a partir dos pais/responsáveis de estudantes numa rede particular de ensino.

Abstract

The growing demand for sport at school raises questions about the reasons involved for the choice of this activity by parents. Thus, this work aims to identify the parents' opinion about the sport at the school of a private institution in Maceió. For that, we used the qualitative method, of the exploratory-descriptive type. An open questionnaire was conducted based on the following question: What is your opinion about sport at school? As a way of interpreting the data from the common opinions of the parents involved in the research, a sector chart was made. Thus, it is concluded that different aspects were verified for the same phenomenon, sport at school. The most frequent responses from parents about sport at school were associated with social interaction in which socialization between different children and their benefits is sought through sport; health, given that the cultivation of good habits since childhood directly influences life adult; moral development with values and attitudes, provided by different situations and forms of resolution within the sport and development of motor skills.