Banca de DEFESA: PAULINELLE DE ARAÚJO FIGUEIRÊDO

SPORTS WITH RACKETS: an intervention proposal in full-time public school.

Physical Education; Sports with rackets; School of full-time education.

Physical Education has sought its legitimacy and consolidation as a curricular component of the school, being essential to the search for its organization from a pedagogical intentionality, allowing the students to know and experience the practices that compose the culture of movement. Recognizing the importance of diversifying and providing opportunities for new contents and methodologies in Physical Education classes at school, this work aimed to diagnose the reality, apply and analyze a proposal for a pedagogical intervention that would allow the inclusion of sports with racquets in an elective discipline in the full-time school. 30 students from the 1st grade of the high school participated in the research, enrolled in the elective discipline of sports with racquets, and who accept, through the due terms, to participate in the aforementioned study that took place at the full-time high school Dom Antonio Campelo de Aragão. The construction of the work is based on a qualitative research proposal of the intervention type, that is, a participatory study characterized by the contribution of the researcher and research subjects for the construction of solutions to the identified problems. The collected data were treated and organized into three categories: probing reality, experiencing reality and evaluating reality. With the development and evaluation of this didactic unit, some contributions, discoveries and organization of a product destined for the construction and systematization of tools to facilitate the handling of the following sports with rackets are described in the dissertation: Field Tennis, Table Tennis, Beach Tennis, Badminton, Frescobol, Quimbol and Speedball. In this work, the limits and possibilities identified in the development with students through cooperative learning in the racquet sports elective are presented. The study was submitted to the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN and registered in the Plataforma Brasil, obtaining a favorable opinion.