"Aprender a pegar a moral do outro": a aprendizagem do futebol como processo relacional e coletivo no Brasil

Abstract

Soccer is a widely spread practice in Brazil. Not limited to specific spaces and formats predefined, it is in the public domain, it is produced in multiple ways and in different places, it articulates diverse forms of participation and combines different generations of practitioners. This singularity of football led to an investigation on their ways of learning - problematization that, to the limit, could serve as a metaphor to understand how culture is learned. To address their learning, however, it was not possible delimit one of the contexts of the practice (chosen as the place of learning) to carry out the research. Because it is not the school model (transmission) that constitutes a reference for practice. His Learning is the result of participation in multiple contexts of different interactions. so, in dialogue with the notion of situated learning by Lave and Wenger (1991) and respecting the characteristics of the soccer, the field research carried out in 2005 focused on the soccer practices of young people in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte/BR: at school (physical education and playground); on the soccer field of the neighborhood (social project, championship and leisure); in the Plaza de los Deportes; in other fields of the city that the youth of the investigation played. The investigation allowed to reveal important aspects of the process of football learning, among which it is intended to focus: a) football learning as a relational process and collective: the relationships between power, access and learning; b) "football as a contact game between human beings" in which learning is "taking the morality of the other".