Aprendizagem de danças populares: implicações dos métodos global e parcial progressivo na aquisição e retenção de uma coreografia

Abstract

The dance is a motor ability that, now, it is present in a lot of schools being part of the contents and assuming an educational function. However, frequently, the teachers are insecure as for the method that should use so that the apprentice could be benefit in the learning and in the retention of movements of a dance choreography. The present study had as the objective to verify which of the methods, Global or Partial Progressive, is more effective on acquiring and retaining popular dancing movements. A sample of 24 children between 10 and 11 years old, participated in this survey, all of them enrolled in Elementary Public School Profª Cândida Zasso. Two groups were formed with 12 children in each. Group 1 worked with the global method and the second with the partial progressive. There were 8 practical sessions for both groups with an interval of 48 hours from one session to the other. At the end of the 8th session there was an acquisition test to verify how much the student had learnt throughout the learning process. After a 48 hours interval, without any practice, It was applied another test to verify how much the student had retained in a long-term memory. The data were analyzed through the test “t” of student in order to verify the existence of differences between groups. It was found p = - 0,576 in the acquisition test while p = - 0,463 in the retaining test. According to these results it was noticed that there is no meaningful statistical difference between the methods in the learning process of a popular dance choreography.