Educação física em diálogo com quilombolas de Divino (MG): expandindo fronteiras do conhecimento na escola

Abstract

This work results from a collective teaching-learning experience involving a Physical Education teacher and his students 9th grade at Doutor Pedro Paulo Neto State School, in Divino, MG, in 2022. The question that motivated it was the reflection about the presence and absence of traditional people’s knowledge at school and in Physical Education. Based on it, the goal was established to research, (re)recognize, welcome and experience bodily practices of Quilombola remnant Community that belongs to the city, in the district of São Pedro de Cima, taking them as a source for the Physical Education teaching program, aiming to expand frontiers of their knowledge. A Didactic Unit was then elaborated together providing twenty classes for its realization, equivalent to a two-month period of the public school system of the State of Minas Gerais, which included activities such as research in the School and Municipality libraries and in public archives, documentaries, conversation circles with other teachers, visits to the Quilombola Community and conversation with its inhabitants and with managers of their School, among others. Movements of an 'action-research' were used to guide the planning of the Didactic Unit, with the experiences lived in the collective preparation and execution of the classes, and a permanent reorientation during the course, after reflections generated in each class. It is thus a product of the involvement of reflection of subjects from a public school in dedication to a shared pedagogical exercise. Its realization brought reflections and feelings to the teacher and his students, with developments for the Quilombolas Community and the School, indicating that it is possible and necessary to establish dialogue with the several cultures of traditional peoples present in the history of Brazil, in order to expand and enrich the knowledge of Physical Education.