Do picadeiro à escola: as atividades circenses e as relações com a educação física

Abstract

The physical education at school develops subjects which work with the corporal culture embodying the most different ways to work with the body. Thus, the circus activities also can be included in the physical education by its activities possibilities of corporal domination with juggling, acrobatics, interpretation and flyover activities. This study objective was to verify the importance of the circus activities as a bodily practice inserted in the physical education subject at school in a way to propose the cultural comprehension of some circus issue. The methodology applied was structured by a descriptive and exploratory research pointed out in Scientifics papers that they were according with the proposed objective. The discussion showed that the circus world transformation was significant changes in the culture and these changes must be presented at school environment in special at the physical education to protect the student for a big bodily knowledge and about the context of a social reality through the comprehension and reflection of this student about the place in where is his/her culture bringing contributions to his/her critic thoughts and integral formation.