HEALTH PRESENCES AND EMPHASES IN THE CURRICULA OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING: NOTES FOR A CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURING

ABSTRACT:

The text presents partial results of an investigation on Physical Education (PE) curricula at the Physical Education and Sports Center of Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, aiming to present some elements to construct the concepts of presences and emphases in curriculum analysis regarding health in PE courses. Research data were obtained from curricular documents of both Bachelor’s and Teacher training degrees, analysis of professors’ curricula vitae, and documents from civil service exams for the health area. We have also conducted interviews with ten professors and monitored four courses during a semester. Two movements are presented: in the first, a conceptualization of presences and emphases based on Giddens’s structuration theory and on Cunha’s concept of political-epistemological orientation; in the second, the analysis of empiricism, which indicated five presences and two emphases on the health theme in the teacher training curricula in PE. We consider that the presences and emphases of the health theme are established in the movements of the structure duality in which the subjects’ actions, according to their political-epistemological orientations, related to (or tension) the structural constraints that compose the teacher training curricula in PE.

Keywords:
health; health human resource training; curriculum; higher education; Physical Education