THE PERCEPTION OF THE BODY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES IN SANTARÉM-PA: A STUDY FROM THE CORPORATE APPROACH
Education. Body. Corporeality. School Physical Education. High school. Phenomenology.
High School is a phase that should enable a dignified and humane educational formation for its students beyond the contents of Physical Education, promoting the development of a critical and autonomous posture for its students in the face of the clashes of life, promoting an emancipatory conduct to exercise of citizenship. One of the important issues in this training scenario is to motivate reflections on the body since basic education. This research aimed to understand the body perception of high school students at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará – Campus Santarém, and its relationship with the approach to corporeality in Physical Education classes in the Amazon educational context. Therefore, the writing was based on a qualitative approach, based on Phenomenology (MERLEAU-PONTY, 2008) and on the phenomenon Corporeity (NÓBREGA, 2010; MOREIRA et al., 2006). Regarding the production of data, a sociodemographic questionnaire and an interview with three generating questions answered by students through a virtual room on Google Meet were used. To analyze the data obtained, the Technique of Elaboration and Analysis of Units of Meaning proposed by Moreira, Simões and Porto (2005) was used. Therefore, for this moment, a pilot study was carried out, in which high school students from a private school located in the urban area of Santarém-PA participated. Thus, seven students answered the sociodemographic questionnaire and two students participated in the interview. Indeed, in the partial data of the research, it was considered that the understanding of the body of the researched students varies between the perception of the body based on an active being, who relates to himself, with others and his surroundings, and the understanding focused on the model. Cartesian in which the human being as an object emerged in the adolescents' discourse, characterized as an aesthetic and machinic spectacle in which perfection and beauty imposed on the human body by its physical appearance are admired. As for the perceptions attributed to the body in Physical Education classes, they move towards a lived corporeality that seeks the complexity of the being, at the same time that the idea of a tired body that degenerates due to inactivity and lack of movement arises. The theoretical developments imputed a dialogue between Corporeality and Physical Education in High School, mediated by authors who evoke the theme. The relevance is given, so far, by the scarce studies on the body and the phenomenon of corporeality in education and in human and academic training spaces in the Amazon region.