Banca de DEFESA: JÚLIA MARIA ALVES DE MEDEIROS

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL AS CONTENT IN THE PEDAGOGICAL PROJECTS AND CURRICULUM SUMMARY 

OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION COURSES OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES OF THE NORTHEAST

Women's Soccer; Curriculum; Physical Education

The presence of women in the various sectors of society is a recent conquest. As an example, this research takes as a reference the participation of women in the sports field, but specifically in soccer - an important Brazilian social constructor - and the university as an institution that plays an important role in overcoming social exclusions. Bringing as a general objective, the search for mentions to the content of women's soccer from the curricular themes and pedagogical projects of Physical Education courses in public federal universities in the Northeast, the work has a qualitative nature made through a content analysis that uses complementary documentary techniques. The methodological approach began in the pre-analysis with the location of public federal universities in the Northeast that offer Physical Education courses, as well as their pedagogical projects and curricula. Then, the exploration of this material was performed. The data showed that, besides the particularities of each document, they do not mention 'women's soccer' in their research. Thus, we decided to fragment the term into 'soccer', 'women', and 'women' and made new searches. Regarding the term soccer, we observed its presence in the names of the curricular components, in the menus, in the bibliographical references, in the infrastructure (when talking about a soccer field), in the justification and in the historical context. The expression 'female' was mentioned in the structure (when referring to locker room), in bibliographical references, in the menus, in the identification of sports practice and in the historical context. The word 'woman' appeared in the bibliographic references, in the menu and in the characterization of the profile of the professors of one of the universities studied. Given the insufficient presence of the term and related terms and, taking into account the increasing practice of the modality, it was possible to realize the need to reformulate the pedagogical projects of the Physical Education courses of the universities (demonstrated the outdatedness of most documents) in order to include and update the current contents, such as, for example, women's soccer with the purpose of contributing to the formative process of Physical Education teachers, as well as improving the possibilities of study, sporting practices and fields of action of, for and by women.