Concepções de corpo, gênero e currículo na educação física do ensino médio

Abstract

This master’s degree dissertation presents the results of a research that proposed to discuss the themes related to the conceptions of body, gender, and curriculum among Physical Education teachers in public schools in the city of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul. This study had as main objective to understand the influence of the conceptions of body and gender among Physical Education teachers of high school institutions, specifically in the planning of the curriculum of the Physical Education discipline. Therefore, the methodological approach to the development of this research is of a qualitative character and was outlined as explanatory descriptive. A semistructured interview was used as a data collection instrument, and content analysis was used as the main methodological input for the analysis of these interviews. Thus, we can assure that the participants’ experiences in this investigation influence the choice of contents to be worked on in the discipline's classes, and above all in the organization of the curriculum, given the recurrence of the teaching of team sports.