Lazer e formação cultural: uma análise das trajetórias de professores universitários nos estados do Pará e Amapá

Abstract

This research investigates the cultural education of university professors who teach Leisure in Physical Education courses of Public Universities in the states of Pará and Amapá. Cultural Education is a process in which the subject experiences different cultural languages, making it possible to expand cultural experiences, sensibility and knowledge about the social enviroment in which he lives. Thus, Leisure professionals appropriat varied cultural events, which can be taken as content of their interventions, such as games, sports, music, theater, cinema, which puts cultural education as an important process in his professional trejetory. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to analyze how has been developed the cultural formation of the unversity professors who teach Leisure in Physical Education courses of Public Universities in the states of Pará and Amapá. The specific objectives were to understand how these teachers first engaged in teaching in the field of leisure; identify contributions of initial formation and graduate teaching in the area of leisure; map the most commom cultural activities in the professors' lives; comprehend what limits and possibilities for cultural education are highlited by teachers, as well as discribe whether they use their experiences for teaching in different ways. In the methodology, we agreed to the use of the bibliographical research with semi-structured interview. A total of eleven professors (eight women and three men) took part in the interview.The results suggest that most of time the cultural activities happen into the domestic enviromental and familiar relationship. Of the 11 teachers interviewed, 10 mentioned the domestic space, as well as the the familiar context and interaction among friends as an important scenary for accomplishment of cultural activities, where they can relax, watch TV and films, listen to music, socializekjhg with friends, acess the internet and read. However, the group of teachers also expose the realization of activities outside of the domestic space, and the most cited were experiences in the nature, cinemas, theater, dance, physical sports activities, cultural shows and pubs. All the participants of the research demonstrated to construct ways to teach leisure from their own the cultural experiences by problematizing policies of intervention in the sector; reflecting on historical patrimony; developing practical activities such as toy building and adventure sports. The teachers showed greater occupation of time with domestic obligation and care activities with the family, which indicates a substantial decrease in the free time for leisure and cultural education of the women interviewd, this fact revels inequality of time for leasure bettwen woman and men.All the respondents are subject to the processes of precariousness of your work, which involves accumulation of disciplines, intensification of institutional tasks, dificulty to be really envolved in researching, overload with activities aimed for realization of opinions and commissions, revealing a subtraction of time for leisure activities and cultural training.Finally, this research has shown that cultural experiences, experienced by teachers, translate into ways of addressing the knowledge in the classroom, what may be new studies in the field of culture and its relationship with the curriculum and professional training at leisure