The History of Sport, the values and the Information and Communication Technologies on the track and field teaching

Author(s)

Guy Ginciene

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Rio Claro. 2016-01-28.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro
• Defense date: 2016-01-19
• Advisor: Sara Quenzer Matthiesen

Abstract

Sport is a cultural phenomenon which manifests itself in several ways within society. One of them is educational, the purpose of this research, which the objective has been to investigate how to teach track and field, specially, its history and values during Physical Education school classes, using as allies Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). To achieve this objective we have organized ourselves in four stages. In the first stage, literature review of the main research topics was carried: the teaching of track and field, history of track and field, values and ICT. In the second stage, we interviewed 10 Physical Education teachers; in the third stage we carried an action research divided in three moments: meetings with the teachers, experimental intervention and final intervention. Finally, in the fourth stage, we carried a semi-structured interview with the teacher that engaged with the whole intervention process. Through Content Analysis we achieved the following categories: teaching contents (with the sub categories: track and field, history of track and field, values and integration of the contents); use of ICT; and teacher support. The literature research, the interviews, the meetings with the teachers and the experimental intervention showed us that the Sport Education model could be a good strategy for “how to teach”. Because of that, we used this model in the final intervention with others strategies: values discussion through dilemmas; history experiences; and use of videos. All this supports students to experience values situations and understand track and field in a global view (i.e. according to the three dimensions of content). In this scope, we concluded that: the teaching strategy, by all means, the “how to teach” is extremely important; it is still necessary to define and select “what to” teach, in special, about history and values; Sport Education presented itself as a good strategy to work with the values and integrate the three dimensions of the contents during the classes; the action research showed itself as an important method to comprehend the particularities of the pedagogical practice of the teachers. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/00425-1 - The history of the sport, the values and the information technology and communication for teaching athletics
• Grantee: Guy Ginciene
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate