Tema transversal saúde: professor de educação física além do ato pedagógico

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the competences to teach health at scholar physical education, during the final years of elementary school, according to the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (1998) and the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (2017). It happened through bibliographical research in literature review and documentary analysis, through the identification of the term health and its frequency in national curricular references. The results showed that the curricular references guide physical education in seven categories: 1) importance and the relations between health and physical education; 2) standards of beauty, health and performance; 3) physical activity, physical exercise and sports practices in health; 4) autonomy for the practice of leisure and health; 5) to reflect and to demystify the health; 6) ways of approaching the theme health; 7) gymnastics and health. From the data analysis, it was possible to detect that the curricular references recognize the importance of the study of health in physical education, highlighting several reflections, possibilities and recommendations for the curricular component. Although Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais offer more information than the Base Nacional Comum Curricular, the ideal is that both documents be consulted, in the form that an aggregate knowledge to the other, a process that aims at the broader view on this transversal theme. In this way, it is up to the teacher to study, to formulate and to adapt new curricula in the reality that it is inserted, in the conjuncture with the promotion of health and citizenship.