Corpo e esporte na formação de professores/profissionais em cursos de graduação em Educação Física: Brasil e Estados Unidos da América

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the meaning of body and how undergraduate students in their senior year of Physical Education Bachelors Degree in Brasil and USA would show the concept of body in their speeches. This research is characterized as having a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive nature, based on the phenomenological approach. In the analysis of the interviews the technique used was Preparation and Analysis of Meaning Units. Thirty-two subjects answered two questions, "What does body mean to you?" and "How would you work the body of your students or athletes?". As a result, we found that most of the subjects have a pereption of body as a unity and totality. However, most of the subjects would work the body of his students or athletes with fitness activities or training, focusing only on the biological body. We concluded that the speech about the body is not present in the actual work of the physical education professionals. So, additional research is needed about the concept of body in the field of Physical Education, since it seemed to not include the person as a whole due to the fragmented view of the human being.