Possibilidades pedagógicas do dançar na escola

Abstract

The present study approaches the dance as knowledge to be pedagogically treated in the school Physical Education. We believe that school may offer other body experiences ways through the dance aiming to recover its historicity and importance, thas, were formulated the following outliner questions of that investigation: How the dance as an element of movement culture can be assimilated in physical education classes? How the students see themselves in relation to a building and rebuilding proposal of the culture of dance? Which are the pedagogical possibilities of dance at school? To develop that investigation we made use of the observation (direct) as well as the questionnaire (with open questions) characterizing that one as a qualitative approachment research of participant character. The subjects were students from a basic teaching state school of the city of Santa Maria-RS. We have perceived that dance can be developed as Physical Education contents at school turning possible to the student to review the information contained in to the dances practiced. On that sense, the dance was not anymore a choreography created by the professor and repeated by the students to be created and changed by the last ones. We need to create new possibilities that make easy each student’s expression building situations in which the student perceive itself as active subject in the building of its knowledge as well as an agent that practice, reflect and rebuild its culture. Thus, we recognize the importance of the discussion about the knowledge of dance and the possibilities of to be treated through different perspectives.