VOLLEYBALL IN SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES IN HIGH SCHOOL: a possibility based on the critical-emancipatory approach
School Physical Education. Voleyball. Critical-Emancipatory Approach. Integrated High School.
Among the diversity of cultural manifestations that can be thematized, sport continues to stand out, being a content that allows a range of movements to be explored and experienced in High School Physical Education classes, and volleyball, being a traditional and popular among young people, it can be thematized in other ways, using other scenarios and contexts, bringing new learning possibilities, especially when worked on in a critical approach to Physical Education, such as critical-emancipatory, which seeks to place students at the center of the process of teaching learning and encouraging them to develop their autonomy, protagonism, creativity and expansion of their criticality. In view of the above, the general objective of this research is to analyze a materialized pedagogical intervention in Physical Education classes in High School Integrated with volleyball content from the critical-emancipatory approach, and its specific objectives are to develop a didactic unit on volleyball, from the critical-emancipatory approach; evaluate the teaching-learning process of the applied proposal; and, prepare a booklet with volleyball content, based on the critical-emancipatory approach, as an educational product. To achieve the proposed objective, a descriptive, qualitative and intervention-type research was carried out, with the target audience being 26 students from the 2nd year of Integrated Technical High School of the Morning Environmental Control Course at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology. of Rio Grande do Norte – Natal Central Campus, in the city of Natal/RN. Its application was carried out through a didactic unit consisting of 10 meetings. For data collection, the researcher's field diary, participant observation and portfolio were used as instruments. Data analysis was divided into three main topics: (1) Known Volleyball: aimed at describing the first meeting of the teaching unit and identifying students' prior knowledge about volleyball; (2) Experimented Volleyball: intended to describe the other nine matches; and (3) Perceived Volleyball: related to the evaluation of the teaching-learning process. As results, with regard to volleyball known to students, we identified that the main aspects related to the modality were about rules, fundamentals, game situations and curiosities. In relation to volleyball experienced by students, we realized that the experiences generated opportunities to experiment, learn and create/invent different possibilities about volleyball. Regarding perceived volleyball, students pointed out that the theme of volleyball was diverse, new, positive and inclusive; that the participation of students throughout the meetings was considered very participatory; and, that the pedagogical intervention was important for their integral formation through reflection, satisfaction and growth. We consider that the proposed pedagogical intervention was quite successful and the critical-emancipatory approach appears to be a powerful and fruitful possibility to developany Physical Education content at EMI. We believe that the results presented in this dissertation and the product generated can be reflected, replicated and reconstructed by other researchers, in new contexts and with other audiences.