Conhecimento sobre o lazer na formação de professores de educação física: um olhar sobre os cursos superiores das Universidades Públicas em Belém/PA

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyse the knowledge about leisure developed on physical education courses in Belém city Pará State. We adopted as an epistemological reference the presupposed present in complexity theory, by Edgar Morin. Talking about leisure we used as main references the productions of authors as Marcellino, Isayama e Gomes. To answer to the goal, we did a field research in which we elected as in as investigation locus the University of Pará State – UEPA and the Federal University of Pará – UFPA. The discussion of the research data was done by analysing the ementas and the teaching plans of subjects which talk about the leisure theme in curriculums of the graduations. This stage was followed of a semi-structured in terview with students of the last semester form each instituition. The produced speeches were analysed based on technical elaboration and analyse of units of meaning (MOREIRA, SIMÕES, PORTO, 2006). As results, we noted that UEPA enphasysed themes such as: leisure and public policies; sociohistoric focus of leisure; leisure and social right. At UFPA, we evidenced that the subject follow didactic-methodological orientation, but it does not develop a formation that limit itself to the intention of minister technical knowledge aplicated to leisure. While the interviews, we identified that the majority of the students do not get the knowledge debated by the subjects themselves. Which ones showed having a “funtionalist” understanding of leisure. That fact reveals a distance between the reports of majority of students and the proposal of formation developed by instituitions concerning to leisure.