Os esportes escolares e a COVID-19: os impactos da pandemia sob a visão dos professores de Educação Física

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic brought impacts in several areas and education was one of those affected. School sport is a content of physical education and very present in schools, in Alagoas had its main competition canceled in 2020, the Alagoas Student Games that was canceled due to the pandemic. For this reason, this study aimed to identify the impacts felt by teachers participating in the JEAL 2021 and seeks to discuss possibilities of proposals with regard to School Sports of Physical Education, in addition to comparing and analyzing the impacts in the public and private spheres. The research has a qualitative nature. Six Physical Education teachers from the public and private schools of Alagoas participated in the research, whose ages ranged between 28 and 42 years. As a collection instrument, we used the semi-structured interview that was carried out through the WhatsApp communication application. The collected data were separated into categories that were created based on the similarities found in the participants' statements. As a result, the following categories emerged: Impacts on School Sports, Challenges in the pandemic, back to school / face-to-face training and School Sports Perspective. From the interpretation of the data, it was possible to conclude that the teachers faced many difficulties for their work, such as: lack of resources for online classes, difficulty in keeping students' focus and low motivation to practice school sports throughout this period. , but with a job done in an organized way, you have a good perspective for the time to come. With the results found in this research, it was possible to identify that the part of impact that most differentiated between the public and private spheres was due to the scarcity of resources on the part of teachers or students from the public network. We suggest that schools that do not yet have a health protocol of sanitary measures can adopt one and that competition returns be made gradually, observing the level of contamination in each region, aiming at greater safety for everyone involved in school sports.