Da competição à cooperação: a formação do professor de educação física e o desenvolvimento psicológico da criança durante a prática da educação física escolar

Abstract

The present study intends to investigate how physical educational teachers learners mediate children’s development processes during school activities. Based on historic-cultural perspective the study focuses on qualitative epistemology analysis as a methodological approach. Research starts from ESEFEGO’s curriculum investigation to the confronts within practice by the use of participant observation and interview over a semester, involving two teachers learners from that institution supervised on their practice at school in 1999. Considerations emphasize changes that occur in teachers learners’ planning during class activities and in the relationship between themselves and the children involved in activities such as their considerations on practice. Furthermore the study points to some paradoxes between academic learning and reconstruction throughout practice and repercussions of these factors within children psychological development.