O ensino de natação na disciplina Metodologia do Ensino do Desporto Individual 1: os sentidos atribuídos pelos estudantes de educação física do Instituto de Educação Física e Esporte

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the perspectives of undergraduate students on licentiate degree from the Institute of Physical Education and Sports about the swimming teaching in the discipline Methodology of Sport 1. The methodological path was of a qualitative descriptive nature, and it presented the following guiding question: What is swimming? The research subjects were 10 undergraduate Physical Education students, 4 (four) of them who had access to the Institute of Physical Education and Sports complex's pool and 6 (six) who did not have access to the practice in the complex's pool during the period in which the discipline was offered. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, recorded, transcribed, and subjected to content analysis. After the analysis, it was found that the number of practical classes was not enough to meet the needs of students, unlike the theoretical classes that seem to have met them. In addition, the subjects demonstrated to have completed the discipline without the proper use of practical classes, they had difficulty in adapting to the aquatic environment and the swimming techniques, due to the short workload. The students defined swimming as a recreational or playful activity, which provides joy, leisure, quality of life and health, being a modality that also contributes to motor development.