A Educação Física na cidade de Contagem/MG: aparato legal e propostas curriculares

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the Curricular Reference Matrix for Physical Education employed in the municipal education of Contagem city in 2010, discussing its elaboration process, from the perspective of the documents and materials produced by the secretary of education and from the perspective of the subjects involved. Firstly, the theoretical debate about Physical Education in the school field was activated as well as its legislation through the bibliographical research, in order to understand how it has being constructed, up to the present day. Secondly, we went through empirical research, putting it into two moments. The first moment was used to deal with the search and analysis of the documentary and material archives developed by the Secretary of Education on the curricular matrix. The second moment occurred with interviews with participants in the process of preparing the matrix. After analyzing the data obtained in the empirical research, it was possible to trace a path by which the curricular matrix document took, back to its release in 2010, going through the document creation in 2009 and a continuing training course, in order to build the matrices. However, there are indications that the document released is not totally coherent with the document constructed by the teachers and the pedagogical consultant. At the same time and as a final product, a proposal of an in service continuous training for the Physical Education teachers of Contagem city was elaborated. It was based on the principles of the action research methodology, in order to discuss historical and legislative aspects of Physical Education, the curricular reference of the city, as well as to consider the practical knowledge that teachers bring, so as to be an instrument of assistance to the teacher and its practice.