SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION: AN EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS
EJA. Physical Education. Body Practices. Methodologies.
This research sought to demonstrate how a teacher, through methodological strategies using
Body Practices in the teaching of Physical Education, in Youth and Adult Education (EJA),
sought to stimulate student participation in the activities proposed in classes at a public
municipal school, located in the city of Monte Alegre/RN, based on the students' lack of
interest and motivation in participating in classes until then. We chose to carry out qualitative
research because it is a training narrative, linked to the senses and meanings given by the
author. Records of historical moments that were indispensable to this researcher during his
training, as well as his teaching experiences as a teacher in the EJA. At the same time, the
teacher-researcher, in producing his training narrative in this study, carries with him elements
of human sensitivity, influencing his teaching. The subject of this study was limited to the
researcher teacher himself, through his thematic professional life trajectory, taking into
account his academic career, from his undergraduate degree to his master's degree, as well as
his teaching practice as an EJA teacher in the years 2022 and 2023. Therefore, for the purposes
of proof, we believe it is essential to have a theoretical basis through the guiding documents of
the EJA in Brazil, with the intention of understanding the reality of this type of teaching, and
also through Andragogy, which reminds us of the importance of considering the reality in
which the student is inserted, in order to then look for intervention alternatives. Corroborating
this, the survey of the data collected enabled us to understand how body practices were
relevant as a teaching-learning methodology and contributed to the students' motivation,
given that the students' evolution after integrating the proposal to bring meaning and
significance to their practices was notable during the four semesters that were part of this
study, generating a different look at the potential that can be extracted from the contents of
Physical Education, specifically body practices. The proof of success in implementing this
teaching method allows us to believe that through body practices geared towards the reality
of EJA students in the final years of elementary school, it can be of value to school Physical
Education teachers and we hope that the results found here can inspire future research and
actions on the ground in various schools.