Educação física e mundo do trabalho: um estudo sobre concepções de educação física numa escola profissionalizante.

Abstract

This research work, accomplished through a qualitative research, aims at understanding the existent relations between the physical education practices at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Goiás (Cefet-GO), an educational institution that prepares professionals for the job market, and the professional formation required by the job market. The subjects of this research: teachers of physical education at the secondary school level, in Cefet-GO, were initially surveyed by means of a semi-structured interview, through which we tried to obtain answers to the major questions posed in this research. The admission to the Cefet-GO allowed us to understand the existence of clear relation between the physical education classes given and the job market and the lack of a politicalpedagogic project to support the teachers practices. Among the main categories of analysis selected to aid us throughout this research, there are those that try to show a clear picture of the relations established between work and education, especially discussed by Frigotto and Gentili; those that try to clarify the divergence between intellectual and manual work, developed by Kuenzer; and those that discuss the idea of a unified school thought of by Gramsci. From this investigation, the conceptions upon which the physical education practices developed at Cefet-GO are based and their purposes with these practices could then be understood, having as a parameter the main approaches that have influenced the physical education since the 1980 s. It was concluded that it is necessary to overcome the existing contradiction between the physical education and the preparation for the job market for the formation of a conscious and free individual, having in mind a critical perspective as a support for the physical education practices.