Formação inicial: uma experiência crítico- reflexiva no desenvolvimento da educação física inclusiva

Abstract

This study, had as a main goal, to achieve an analysis about the contribution of the reflexive critical teaching on the initial education of the Physical Education teachers, as far as the inclusion of students with special educational needs, in normal classes. In order to deal with the presumed intentions for this investigation, the principles of participant research were used. Being the subjects formed by five students of the Physical Education Degree Course enrolled and taking the supervised subject of the curricular training, in a teaching practice situation, at Santa Maria Federal University. Semi-structured interview, participant observation and documental analysis have been the instruments used and registered in a field journal for a period of one semester of the year of 2005. The data deliver to the conclusions for the trainees to observe the educational space based on the critical thought to get involved on the decisions that are part of this context. Facing this movement as a comprehension of the world around them to reach an understanding about the inclusion in the social educational environment. After this first reflexive attitude, the subjects began to really understand themselves as agents of an educational environment. Contributing to understand the present process of inclusion of the students with special educational needs, raising the main problematic which refers to the educational needs of the subjects. As a last step, the subjects of the study decided to approximate to the educational needs of the institution, causing an inevitable transformation of the epistemological conceptions that form the professional performance. The result of this investigative movement gave the initial education teachers, when compromised to the critical reflexive principals that transform them in critical intellectuals, the opportunity to reset their concepts and contribute to the development of the inclusive physical education.