Dance and Physical Education: A Study with Teachers from Municipal Schools in Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

The school is a space capable of providing physical-motor, psychological, affective and sociocultural skills and also allowing students to develop skills, in addition to contact with different people and cultures. Dance is a mandatory content defined by the National Curriculum Parameters in the Content Block Rhythmic and Expressive Activities. And also in the National Common Curricular Base that proposes it as a thematic unit in Elementary School in a progressive construction from the objects of knowledge: Dance in the community and regional context; Dances of Brazil and the world; Dances of indigenous and African matrices; and Urban dances. The present study aimed to analyze the perception of Physical Education teachers about the teaching of Dance in five municipal schools in the Conjunto Ceará neighborhood, in the city of Fortaleza-CE. For this, the methodology used was a specific questionnaire on Dance (Whoqol-Bref), divided into thematic blocks and applied with the teachers of the schools in order to know their perceptions about the knowledge of the Dance content, the development that Dance is able to provide, the difficulties encountered and the interests on the theme and its scope. The results pointed out that there is a gap regarding the content of Dance and difficulties to work the approaches and methodologies of classes on the teaching-learning process of the students. It was also confirmed that teachers have full knowledge about the benefits that the content has.