TENNIS IN SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION: A DIDACTIC POSSIBILITY
Keywords: School Physical Education, content, methods, Tennis.
The presence of sport in Physical Education at school boils down to the four modalities to the detriment of the others, limiting students' access to sports content, such as racquet sports. Thus, we visualize in Tennis, the experience of a new sporting experience. The objective of this research was to create possibilities for teaching tennis, adapting space, rules, recycling and/or reusing materials, using modern teaching methods that contribute to learning the skills and internal logic of this sport, enabling the protagonism and autonomy of the student, since this content is part of our curricular component, but its teaching and learning remains “forgotten” in the school environment, under some well-known allegations such as, from the lack of adequate materials and spaces, and the non-experience of its professionals with this, in addition to the predominance of traditional modalities as absolute contents of school sports. The present study has a descriptive character, an experience report type. This took place during the Physical Education classes that took place at the Municipal Elementary School Anaíza Luiz Calixto, located in the municipality of Patos (PB) - interior of the Paraíba hinterland. The content selected for the present study was tennis due to the need to enable the teaching-learning of this non-traditional modality in school sports through a didactic/pedagogical vision and contemporary teaching methods. At the end of the research development, we concluded that: 1- It is possible to teach this content even in school contexts lacking space and materials; 2- Even though it is a non-traditional sport in Physical Education at school, it proved to be a content that was highly accepted by the students; 3- Due to its characteristics of being an active sport, individual or in pairs, it allowed the protagonism and autonomy of the student in its practice. Finally, we realized that tennis is a content that can be taught even in the face of obstacles present in the school environment and that it has motivating characteristics in its teaching-learning, in its experience.