Diagnóstico da produção científica da educação física sobre envelhecimento e gênero

Abstract

Due to the large number of papers on human aging suggest that gender is a determining factor in how the individual aging. This study aims to make a diagnosis of scientific literature of physical education on the subject Aging and Gender, searching exclusively online, the following sources: directory of research groups of CNPQ; theses and dissertations from the bank's thesis CAPES and the basis of theories of UnATI / UERJ; scientific articles in journals of physical education and the virtual library on health BIREME. Results showed 17 research groups, a low number of jobs in theses and dissertations and articles on the subject, this low-knowledge can be attributed to a tradition of physical education and major field of health through the development of empirical studies rather than of phenomenology, there is the difficulty in relation to the use of keywords, as are many false-positive. Therefore, the reasoning because in most studies on elderly cites that the gender is crucial in how the individual ages and are so few academic works that treat the subject even with a large number of researchers involved, we can mention the need for new studies in the subject of the work, which broaden the opportunities for reflection and seek systematize and update the content.