Possibilidades da educação física na perspectiva ambiental: um relato de caso do grupo de estudos movimento e ambiente

Abstract

The work presents the functioning and production of the Movement and Environment Study Group (GEMA), made up of students and teachers from the Physical Education and Natural Sciences Degree courses at UNIPAMPA, in order to strengthen the performance of Physical Education in the environmental perspective . It aims to support the construction of the regional socio-environmental map for didactic purposes of Basic Education; propose urban trails; disclose that local knowledge is as necessary as the knowledge already consecrated by the school institution; prove that the teaching project registered at the institution has a practical basis to develop activities that add the areas of Physical Education to the environment in which the student is inserted, and the academic, as a subject in professional training; bet on Environmental Education as a pedagogical practice capable of developing sensitivity and promoting social changes aimed at improving quality of life. Using walking, running and cycling, GEMA seeks not only to value the practice of physical exercises outdoors, but also to know and preserve the beauties of the region, as well as to problematize the ways of living and inhabiting the city. The method consisted of analyzing all textual, audiovisual, photographic, artistic and oral records, categorizing and classifying them as learning from different areas of knowledge. Providing students with a differentiated experience from the traditional way of teaching, the activities demonstrated that the methodology used to work on Environmental Education associated with the subjects of the basic curriculum carries out a profound reflection on the citizen who is being trained with everyday didactics. These actions and analyzes prove that Physical Education can be the component curriculum capable of proposing interdisciplinary practices in the field of Environmental Education through the study of the school environment, the social environment. It is suggested that in future interventions, the school encourages its students and teachers to participate in activities, privileging the knowledge of beautiful landscapes and the apprehension of content outdoors, after all Environmental Education and Physical Education can go together in a process of mutual learning.