A educação física na escola: significados e possibilidades de (re) significar

Abstract

Geertz (1989) considers culture as the whole production of humanity interconnected through a network of meanings. In the school environment, Chervel (1988) understands school culture as a culture acquired at school and Viñao Frago (2000) adds school culture to the ways of thinking and acting that provide its components with strategies to develop both in classrooms and outside them. When we cover the school culture of Physical Education we must know the significant influences that it had during its formation process that influenced and left some remnants, constituting a Physical Education crossed by factors that limit its curricular organization. In this sense, the objective of this study was to understand the meanings of Physical Education in the perspective of students after the period of intervention, for this, na action research was developed that involved a Physical Education teacher, a group of students of the 8th year of the Elementary School of a public school in Uruguaiana-RS, during the classes of Physical Education of the class throughout the year 2017. This study may offer contributions / incentives for an innovation in the planning of Physical Education in the school, considering the various possibilities that the The proposal of this project has provided, and still surpasses, the contents that historically marked the curriculum of Physical Education classes.