Representações dos alunos sobre as aulas de dança no curso de educação física da Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

This research was created with the objective of identifying the representations of students about dance classes in the Physical Education Course, at the Federal University of Alagoas UFAL. For the development of this study, a qualitative research was carried out, involving field research. The technique used for data collection in field research was semi-structured interviews. The participants of the research were five students who are attending the 8th period of the Physical Education course. Data analysis was based on the content analysis technique proposed by Guerra (2006). With this, with the students' statements, the dance discipline was represented, which gave rise to four categories: body culture, body movement, new learning and feeling prepared. The dance discipline represented for the students results that contributed to professional performance, since they allowed exchanges of knowledge with a broad view of new contexts about what dances in the course of Physical Education.