SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ITS INTERFACE WITH PAULO FREIRE’S CULTURE CIRCLE
School Physical Education; Paulo Freire; Culture Circle.
This dissertation is based on the understanding of works that used Paulo Freire's Culture Circle approach with an emphasis on School Physical Education (EFE), as well as reflection on its main theoretical-practical elements as potential contributors to the area. As a methodological resource, bibliographic research of the integrative literature review type was used. For data collection, the CAPES Theses and Dissertations Catalog, the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and Google Scholar were explored. 22 works were selected according to the established inclusion and exclusion criteria, including 6 doctoral theses, 10 master's theses and 6 articles from national journals. Thematic Analysis was applied with the purpose of understanding the main themes generating the investigations, in which four thematic categories emerged, namely: Teacher Training; Curriculum; Teaching; and Cultural Diversity. With regard to discussions on Teacher Training, the works highlight the need for permanent and relational training, which reverberate on different themes from EFE, such as the challenges of inclusion, political and emancipatory training at school, self-training reflections and their relationship with pedagogical practice, pedagogical-evaluative and self-evaluative practice, interdisciplinary training related to extreme sports, etc. The works that investigated the Curriculum bring to the academic discussion a critique related to EFE's sports curricula, and how these reflect on teaching performance, exacerbating exclusion and the impossibility of diversifying knowledge. In the Teaching category, the works deal with different ways of approaching the Culture Circle in EFE classes, providing opportunities for thematization and problematization of knowledge related to Dances, Sports, Fights, Games, Games, knowledge about the body and health and media and technologies . The Cultural Diversity category discusses how this theme has been used in EFE, highlighting markers associated with ethnic-racial relations, politics, religion, gender and sexuality. It is considered that research that uses the resource of Paulo Freire's Culture Circle at EFE is relevant in the process of change and legitimization of the area, and that these can contribute in different possibilities, whether in initial or continued training, in the description of pedagogical experiences, in the tension of criticism of conservative models and in the expansion of academic debate. The dissertation is currently in the process of discussing the results in light of some works by Freire and the EFE area.