Lazer, educação física escolar e adolescencia: um estudo com escolares de Ribeirão das Neves / MG

Abstract

This study had as its object of study the perception of adolescents, students of the 2nd. year of high school, a public school in Ribeirão das Neves (MG) on leisure, physical education and the relationship between these areas. Theoretical and empirical background were grounded in Developmental Psychology, Leisure Studies and professional practice with adolescence, in dialogue with the field research. Data was gathered from 18 adolescents who engaged in a individual, semi-structured interviews and later, 9 of 18 students participated in a focus group. Adolescents answers were recorded, transcribed and later analyzed through qualitatively and quantitatively approach using Content Analysis. Response categories were created formed by similar thematic units, calculating frequency responses of adolescents. Adolescents reported leisure as the time for the search and experience of pleasure and a state of satisfaction, in which they can do what they like. The fun / distraction was also associated with the pleasure by teenagers because this moment is set up as a possibility of deviation of daily obligations. The leisure time has been associated with the freedom of choice to satisfy an interest. Understanding the physical education discipline was based on two points: the first criticism related to physical education class they have, especially the lack of authority of the teacher and the lack of attention of the school and the government towards this discipline and the second relating this discipline to the practice of physical activities aimed at maintaining and promoting health, concern with body image and movement as a way to be able to revive and restore the energy of the students. For teenagers physical education is the leisure time in school, because it promotes fellowship among colleagues; provides pleasure and personal satisfaction; is a discipline different from the others, considering its content and the spaces of his experience; breaks the room class routine, and provides practices that do not separate students by gender. The understanding of adolescents when conceptual literature related to leisure, recreation pointed inside the school as a semilazer, it is a moment of obligation that also gives pleasure. In this way, it is understood as possible the experience of "leisure" in the school, especially physical education provided by the school, which in addition to fun practices can promote the development of individuals and guides them to healthy habits not only for leisure, but for life.