As representações da natação para os participantes do Programa Esporte na UFAL

Abstract

This work aims to identify and analyze the representations of practitioners and monitors of the Sport at Ufal program, offered by the Institute of Physical Education and Sport. Thus, we sought to analyze the representations created and experienced by the participants from the experience with swimming. The research is theoretically based on the Theory of Social Representations (MOSCOVICI, 1978). This is a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive research carried out with 14 individuals being students at the Federal University of Alagoas, and divided into two groups, group 1 of monitors and group 2 of practitioners. Data collection was performed through semi-structured interviews through audio recording and analyzed through content analysis (GUERRA, 2006) The speeches were transcribed into a Word document and categorized posteriori. The study found that the representations attributed by the participants to the practice of swimming go beyond the experience with sport, it was understood as something that directly contributed to their academic development and professional training, as well as, for others, provided a moment of sociability and improvement emotional and physical through this experience.