A educação física nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: a organização do conhecimento dança no Currículo de Pernambuco

Abstract

Dance content has had less and less space in schools. Little by little, it has been neglected and advocated for its cultural and social aspects. Such content is expressed in documents as a form of expression of body language, which makes it difficult for teachers to systematize it. Given this, this research aims to understand the organization of knowledge about dance in Physical Education classes for the initial years of Elementary School in schools, based on the Pernambuco Curriculum. To this end, we defined as specific objectives, identifying dance as a theme and its contents for Physical Education classes, as well as how its contents are organized for the initial years of Elementary School in the Pernambuco Curriculum. The study proposes, through a bibliographic and documentary study, of a qualitative nature, to understand the importance of the theme of dance in Physical Education classes at school, discussing the social role of the school and Physical Education as a mandatory curricular component in Basic Education. Then, the specificity of dance and its contents are presented, and then how the organization of this theme occurs in the Pernambuco Curriculum. Based on the analysis, we highlight that the Pernambuco Curriculum for the organization of dance content in the initial years of Elementary School, within its possibilities, is characterized as a document that seeks to maintain the theme of dance and its cultural identity, preserving its essence, but it also presents itself as a conservative document, as it does not address issues involving the debate of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, among others, with the objective of improving the teaching-learning process, based only on bodily experimentation, not helping students to develop a deeper and more meaningful understanding, not relating reality and the social context to the content of dance.