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RESIGNIFYING RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS: TEACHING POSSIBILITIES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES IN THE EARLY YEARS

Rhythmic Gymnastics; School Physical Education; Early Years of Elementary School.

This work is a social research, with a qualitative approach, of the participant type, which sought to understand how we can insert Rhythmic Gymnastics in School Physical Education in the early years of Elementary School. For this, it was proposed the development of a didactic unit for the teaching of the base of Rhythmic Gymnastics, in Physical Education classes, for the classes from 1st to 3rd of Elementary School Initial Years, bringing the modality closer to the age groups of the students. The universe of participants in this research was defined with 80 students from the 1st to the 3rd year of Elementary School, from the Professora Maria Luiza Alves Costa State School, and totaled 27 students after validation of the defined participation criteria. The study instruments chosen were: the summary form, to (a) identify, in the universe of Gymnastics, the basic body elements that underlie the experience of GR in School Physical Education; the class diary, in order to (b) structure and experience gymnastic movements in School Physical Education classes, associating toys characteristic of children's culture; and the illustrated questionnaire to (c) assess the level of satisfaction of the students after the experiences of Rhythmic Gymnastics. The research was divided into 3 phases. In the exploratory phase, we seek to establish relationships about the aspect of Rhythmic Gymnastics and, in the literature review, we address information about Brazilian Physical Education, its history, evolution and legitimation, to better understand its current organization, its particularities, and also the facts that contributed, directly and indirectly, to the formation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, from its historical construction to its arrival at school.  as a bodily manifestation that is part of the Culture of Movement, rich in pedagogical possibilities and capable of producing knowledge to students, but little developed in School Physical Education classes. From these data, we started the second phase by making the form proposed in the first objective (a), which allowed us to structure the experiences (b), and were lived and recorded them in the class diary, generating data for content analysis in the third phase. In this study, the thematic approach was used, using the semantic criterion, and its development allowed the elaboration of a Thematic Map of Analysis, which was decisive for the consolidation of the results found. As a result, this research organized the "Body Knowledge of Rhythmic Gymnastics", which allowed to propose the contents, body movements and technical elements of the devices for the 3 Initial Years of Elementary School. And, as appropriate, it also reached a high level of satisfaction among the participants.