Cultura corporal e infância: o lazer como resistência na comunidade.

Abstract

The definition of the theme of leisure for this monograph took place through the experiences obtained in the UFRPE extension project, carried out in the community of Vila Nova Tatuoca - Cabo de Santo Agostinho/PE. From the theme of leisure as a focus for the survey of questions, it was investigated how Physical Education can contribute to the formation of the cultural and leisure collection of the child population of a rural community, inserted in a certain precarious urban context, implying the deconfiguration of their way of life. This study aims to understand the relationship between body culture and childhood in the community Vila Nova Tatuoca, identifying the concepts around childhood, and recognizing the perspective of education for leisure as the possibility of strengthening and maintaining the collective memory of the community. Therefore, we opted for qualitative research, specifically for action research developed in direct contact with the community, whose data analysis referred to the content analysis. During the study, we noticed a gradual positive evolution in relation to issues of self-organization and cooperation among children in their leisure activities, in the creation of new games and games that were incorporated into their cultural collection through the extension project. At the same time, the community of Tatuoca, as well as many others that go through an expropriation situation, need to maintain resistance to the drastic negative changes in their way of leisure in this new urban social reality, in comparison to the rural environment to which they previously belonged.