O exercício cartográfico na pesquisa-ensino: representações de estudantes sobre o espaço vivido no bairro Icaivera, na escola e na educação física

Abstract

The school, as par to this territory populated by students, teachers and the entire school community, coexists with different perspectives, generated from the experiences enjoyed during the regular classes or not. In the context of Physical Education classes, the relationship between the subjects and the classroom spaces includes school obligations and demands of time for free enjoyment of the relationship with classmates, practice of sports and games. Faced with these different expectations, the present study sought to reflect on the articulation between Physical Education and the experiences of adolescents in their free time, composing the web of representations between subjects, space and classes, with in the school space. A teaching-research was carried out with students of the eighth year of elementary school at the Municipal School Maria Elena da Cunha Braz, located in the Icaivera neighborhood, in Betim/MG. During the meetings, when investigating the dailylife of these adolescents inside and outside the school, it was possible to map the territory constituted from the uses and representations associated with the obligations and free time of the students. The cartography was used as a methodological resource, corresponding both to the geographic perspective of representing a territory through maps, drawing sand photographs, and to the production of knowledge in the exercise of mapping representations about recognized spaces for the enjoyment of free time. The cartographic was used as a methodological resource that corresponded to the geographic representation of the Icaivera territory and the use of different techniques in mapping the students' representations associated with free time in this territory. The maps, photographs, drawings and texts produced, added to the reports in the field notebook, were analyzed from the axes of free time, Physical Education and school spaces. These elements were articulated with concepts presented in the basic theory, helping to reflect on the relationship between youth and the environment, in the formation of their identity; about free time, as lived and desired “spacetime”, inside or outside the school, as well as about the place of Physical Education classes. From the researchteaching, the educational product was created in two phases. The first corresponded to the school event entitled Participatory Planning, in which proposals made by students to enjoy their free time at school were presented, discussed and voted on. The second referred to recording the research path and Participatory Planning, through a special edition of the school newspaper Estação Icaivera.