Futsal feminino na escola: um estudo sobre a representatividade de atletas profissionais para alunas da rede básica de ensino

Abstract

This research has as its theme women’s futsal regional as inspiration for students of the basic education, considering the importance of disseminating knowledge and information about the insertion of women in sports contexts historically conceived as masculine. In this sense, the objective of this study was to investigate how a workshop with the theme regional women's futsal influences the students' knowledge about the modality. This is a qualitative research characterized as exploratory and explanatory. The field of study was at a state school of basic education in Uruguaiana city. The participants were students in the 7th grade of elementary school who regularly participated in physical education classes in mixed classes. A questionnaire was used for data collection, applied before the development of the workshop; participant observation carried out during the workshop; and semi-structured interview carried out after the end of the workshop. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis and content analysis. 29 students participated in the collection through the questionnaire and workshop. The interviews were conducted with 8 students, selected from simple random sampling. The main results found highlight that the students had little knowledge about women's futsal, even though there is a reference team in the city where they live, most had never had contact with this sport and did not know about the existence of the professional team in the city. From the workshop, the contact with futsal and with professional athletes, the students reported the contributions to the actions developed, such as: inspiration through the professional athletes with whom they had contact; dedication to what they plan for their lives, not giving up on their dreams and overcoming the barriers of prejudice so that they can practice futsal. It was evident that the students would like futsal to be part of their worked in physical education classes and that there would be more encouragement from the teachers. It is concluded that knowledge about professional female futsal athletes, contact and dialogue with university students so that basic education students identify this modality as a possibility of practice and the trajectories of athletes as forms of inspiration and representation of women in the futsal. It is concluded that knowledge about professional female futsal athletes, contact and dialogue with them contributed to basic education students identifying this modality as a possibility of practice and the trajectories of athletes as forms of inspiration and representation of women in futsal. It is hoped that this research can contribute to more research on female futsal, as well as a greater insertion of primary school students in this sport and as an example of one of the strategies that can be used for greater engagement of girls in school futsal.