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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Physical Education and Pedagogy
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1373271
This article is part of the Research Topic Curricular proposals for physical education: local, global and transnational perspectives View all 4 articles

Physical education curriculum systematizing based on action research: a collaborative network between teacher-researchers from public schools in Quixadá -Ceará, Brazil

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
  • 2 Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Rolante, Brazil
  • 3 Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
  • 4 Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais, Muzambinho, Brazil
  • 5 Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

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    For more than forty years, physical education has been associated with human sciences in Brazil, with an emphasis on the dynamics of culture. This renewing movement challenged the hegemony of sport and health as predominant themes in the school physical education curriculum, as well as pointing out dilemmas to the positivist scientific paradigm. In this sense, advances in theoretical-methodological propositions in Brazilian physical education are intertwined with scientific understandings in the area. Twenty years ago, from a complex epistemological perspective, a curricular systematizationproposed by an autonomous community of teachers-researchersbrought these understandings closer together, valuing the convergence between the dynamics of culture, movement, the body and the environment. In this research, our objective is to analyze how this systematization can contribute to the pedagogical practice of physical education teachers in the public high school network in the city of Quixadá, located in the interior of the state of Ceará, Brazil. Our qualitative itinerary has action research as a method of intervention, including class observations, group meetings and field diary. Data has been analyzed through thematic analysis, characterizing a collaborative network between participants. We identified that curricular documents direct subject content towards the predominance of cultural elements. This direction, in turn, can make it difficult to develop intersubjective knowledge related to the body, movement and the environment. However, when dialoguing with the systematization and reflecting on the curriculum, the thematic subject content blocks make it possible to visualize (inter)personal aspects, movements and environmental demands as complex knowledge specific to physical education.

    Keywords: School physical education, pedagogical practice, Complexity, Convergences, Curriculum, high school, collaboration

    Received: 19 Jan 2024; Accepted: 09 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Oliveira De Souza, de Souza, CORSINO, Lazaretti Da Conceição, Ulasowicz, Venâncio and Sanches Neto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Rener Victor Oliveira De Souza, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 84030-900, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Maurício Teodoro de Souza, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 84030-900, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    LUCIANO NASCIMENTO CORSINO, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Rolante, Brazil
    Willian Lazaretti Da Conceição, Federal University of Pará, Belém, 66075-110, Pará, Brazil
    Carla Ulasowicz, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais, Muzambinho, Brazil
    Luciana Venâncio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 84030-900, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Luiz Sanches Neto, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 84030-900, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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