Representações de corpo no curso de educação física na modalidade licenciatura: olhares discentes

Abstract

The training in Physical Education in the degree modality, as an educational practice inserted in the school space, aims at the construction of knowledge from the academic formation process in the bodies of students. In this sense, the present project aims to identify the social representations of body that the students of the Physical Education course in the modality degree of the Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL campus AC Simões have about their bodies and the work with the body at school. Our foundation is based on authors who theorize about social representations, such as Moscovici (1991), Jodelet (2001); about the body and how Jaeger (2013) Hadot (2014) and also Physical Education authors who discuss the practice of the body in the school space like Foucault (2010), Morais (1997). For this purpose, we carried out a qualitative research with a descriptive approach, seeking to interpret and confront the variables obtained in semi-structured interviews to obtain the best possible analysis of the respondents' answers. The studied group comprises students from the sixth, seventh and eighth periods of the referred course, totaling 13 subjects. This group was chosen because it understands that students, already in the graduation phase, permeate the school spaces through their practices during the period they are doing the supervised internship. After conducting the interviews and making an approximation of meaning between the subjects' statements, we arrived at four categories for the discussion and analysis of the data: Most significant subjects for the teaching of Physical Education; Domain of Content; Observed Body x Experienced Body and Social Representation of Body. In these we show how the educational process and its curriculares structure allows those who experience it to have access to a social representation about the different spheres of society to which they are inserted. Thus, the category “Social Representation of the Body” expressed by the speech of 31% of the interviewees represents the view of the academics as a perception of the body and how to propose it at school. Thus, we also show that the most significant subjects in the subjects' speech are those that will direct them in their work with the body, with a view to their appreciation and body awareness that deal with the contents within Physical Education.