COOPERATIVE GAMES AS A PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTION: ENCOURAGING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION
School Physical Education. Cooperative Games. Methodology. Motivation. Participation.
Currently, the lack of interest of students seems to be one of the problems faced by most teachers when we think about teaching and learning. With the difficulties that many Physical Education teachers have been facing in relation to the lack of interest of students, motivation and the methodology used by teachers have gained relevance as topics to be revisited in the school context. As a general objective, we propose to analyze whether Cooperative Games as a pedagogical intervention in Physical Education at school can favor the participation and inclusion of students in the teaching of physical practices. And to achieve this general objective, we defined the following specific objectives: to identify the main causes that led students to become demotivated and absent from Physical Education classes at school; to identify and characterize the Cooperative Games teaching method, its principles and its practical application in Physical Education at school; to apply a teaching unit on Futsal, using Cooperative Games as a methodological strategy, aiming to evaluate whether students were motivated to participate more in Physical Education classes. As a research, we chose the participant type, with a qualitative approach. As instruments for data collection, we will use a teaching unit of Cooperative Games consisting of ten classes, participant observation recorded in a field diary and two questionnaires, one diagnostic and the other evaluative. The research will be initiated after prior approval by the Research Ethics Committee and consent of the participants and their guardians. The participants will be students regularly enrolled in the 8th grade, class A, of a school located in the city of Cabedelo/PB. The thematic content analysis method will support the analysis and interpretation of the data. We hope that the completion of this study will provide knowledge that teachers in the area can apply in their pedagogical practices.