Os conteúdos escolares das disciplinas de história e ciências e suas relações com a organização curricular da Educação Física na escola
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between the contents of History and Science and Physical Education (PE) at school. Therefore, an effort was made to set principles to establish the sequence of contents for the 6t h to 9t h grades, and at the same time assuring the integration of PE to the school's political pedagogical proposal. The results demonstrate that those documents present a set of knowledge that offers possibilities to systematize the PE contents at school and show that the participation of PE teachers and their knowledge about books adopted is essential to build the political pedagogical proposal. Moreover, teachers from other disciplines should be aware of Physical Education specific knowledge and its value to school projects. This approach could lead to reflections on how to organize the contents while taking advantage of this work.
Lembranças sobre a educação física escolar: uma narrativa de estudantes de educação física
OBJETIVO: Descrever as narrativas de estudantes de Educacao Fisica de uma universidade publica do sul do Brasil sobre as retrospectivas da Educacao Fisica escolar no ensino fundamental. METODOS: Participaram do estudo 239 estudantes que responderam a um questionario com questoes socio demograficas e questoes referentes as percepcoes e lembrancas sobre as experiencias da Educacao Fisica no Ensino Fundamental. RESULTADOS: A partir das narrativas percebeu-se que os investigados consideraram as experiencias na educacao fisica escolar mais positivas que negativas, dando valor a diversificacao de conteudos e a relacao positiva com o professor. Por outro lado, os academicos com percepcao negativa, se referiram as aulas monotonas, sentimentos de vergonha e exclusao e desvalorizacao da disciplina. CONCLUSAO: Pode-se concluir que a investigacao permite ampliar e promover novas discussoes sobre o desenvolvimento e formacao profissional para a atuacao na area da Educacao Fisica escolar. ABSTRACT. Memories about school physical education: a narrative of physical education students. OBJECTIVE: To describe the retrospective narratives of Physical Education in the Elementary School of graduate students of Physical Education of a public university in southern Brazil. METHODS: The study included 239 students of both sexes. The academics answered a questionnaire with socio-demographic questions and questions regarding the perceptions and memories about the experiences of Physical Education in Elementary Education. RESULTS: From the narratives, it was noticed that the academics who considered the experiences more positive than negative gave value to the diversification of contents and to the positive relation with the teacher. On the other hand, academics with a more negative perception, referred to the monotonous classes, feelings of shame and exclusion and devaluation of the discipline. CONCLUSION: This study opens the door to new discussions about the importance of the quality of development and professional training for the area of Physical Education in schools.
Rethinking Health: Healthy or Healthier than?
Theorists of health have, to this point, focused exclusively on trying to define a state—health—that an organism might be in. I argue that they have overlooked the possibility of a comparativist theory of health, which would begin by defining a relation—healthier than—that holds between two organisms or two possible states of the same organism. I show that a comparativist approach to health has a number of attractive features, and has important implications for philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, health economists, and policy makers. 1 Introduction 2 Comparative and Non-comparative Concepts 3 Traditional Theories of Health 4 An Argument for Comparativism: Intergenerational Assessments of Health 5 Another Reason to be a Comparativist: Functionalist Theories of Health 6 A Non-comparative Alternative? 7 An Objection to Comparativism? 8 Why this Matters: The Consequences of Comparativism 1 Introduction 2 Comparative and Non-comparative Concepts 3 Traditional Theories of Health 4 An Argument for Comparativism: Intergenerational Assessments of Health 5 Another Reason to be a Comparativist: Functionalist Theories of Health 6 A Non-comparative Alternative? 7 An Objection to Comparativism? 8 Why this Matters: The Consequences of Comparativism