O trato com o conhecimento esporte: o futsal no IFPE – Campus Recife

Abstract

The Sport phenomenon is part of the body culture and since the 1970s it is strikingly associated with associated with Physical Education in Brazilian schools. Therefore, the manner the knowledge about Sport is regarded in the school environment is fundamental and clarity about the conception of human formation and consequently about the goals to be achieved in Physical Education classes is necessary. Futsal, for instance, is deeply rooted in Brazil and is one of the most practiced sports in the country, which makes it quite socially relevant. Not being limited to the teaching of technique or sports tactics, it is the role of Physical Education to broaden students' knowledge about reality. For that, it is necessary to organize the contents to be worked out, and this involves the selection of the content. Some principles need to be listed so that the selection of curricular content reaches the maxim of contributing to the formation of critical citizens, capable of making a correct reading of reality, as well as transforming it into a more just and egalitarian society. Relying on Critical-surmounting methodology, we have found the following curricular principles: the social relevance of content, contemporaneousness of the content, the adequacy to the socio-cognitive possibilities of the student. This study sought to analyze how the knowledge about sport is was handled, notably futsal, at IFPE-Campus Recife. Since this is a free federal public education institution, with more than one hundred years of existence and good reference in technological teaching in the region, besides reaching thousands of young people from the capital of Pernambuco, it has a good physical structure for teaching futsal as program content. We used historical-dialectical materialism as the theory of knowledge and the materialist dialectic as the scientific method of research. Our empirical field was the production of knowledge about our research object, and the empirical source was the curricular Component Program of the Technical Courses of Campus Recife, namely, the syllabus of subject belonging to Physical Education. After analyzing the program contents of the syllabi, we verified the lack of futsal as a sport phenomenon in the official documents of the institution, which indicates the non systematization of this content in the Physical Education classes. We conclude that the insertion of Sport phenomenon in the Physical Education syllabi is possible and that this can occur in several ways, either by implementing Futsal as a subtopic in the contents of the Physical Education III discipline or by a major reformulation of the curriculum, which currently does not contemplate other macro contents of body culture.