A dança na educação física escolar em Miracema do Tocantins

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze how the Physical Education teacher is exploring the dance content in the classroom within the school environment. Methodologically, it is characterized as a qualitative research that combines a bibliographic, field and descriptive study. The research sample consisted of physical education teachers from the state and municipal education network according to the inclusion criteria. To contribute to this debate, the study had as its main theme: Dance in school physical education in elementary school of the municipal and state education network. It proposes an investigation through the Focus Group methodology, with the active teachers (interested in participating in the research) in Miracema do Tocantins-TO, in 2019, in order to answer the following problem: how dance is treated in class of Physical Education in the schools of Miracema do Tocantins? We noticed through the participants' reports that the dance in Physical Education materializes sporadically and only in certain movements, whether in events, or traditional parties like the juninas, and that there are some difficulties as pointed by them as, formation, rejection by others. Part of the students, or parents, sports hegemony, sexism, prejudice, among others that end up coercing the teachers not to work the content Dance in their classes.