Sizing the School Sport Project in the Municipal Education Network of São Mateus, ES

Abstract

School sport is the practice of sporting experiences in the school environment with socio-educational purposes, developed at different times from the classes of the curricular components, with the service often taking place during the student's after-school hours. This action seeks to present sports as constructive actions to form citizenship, promoting a sense of responsibility, organization, socialization, building a sense of belonging to the school, a sense of community, carrying out physical activity and, consequently, health. Based on bibliographical searches in databases such as the Scielo and Google Scholar platforms, a piece of writing was constructed about school sport as a socio-educational practice of importance in developing citizenship, encouraging people to stay in school and raising the self-esteem of the community itself. Through field research, with a quantitative approach, this research aimed to present how the school sports project of the Municipal Department of Education of São Mateus – ES is organized, listing the number of schools, participating students, modalities served and the quantitative of physical education teachers involved. This gave us the exact size of this project and its scope in socio-educational terms based on the provision of school sports in teaching units in the municipal network, in an attempt to answer the central question of this research: What is the size of the school sports project? from the municipal education network of São Mateus, ES? From the data produced, it was possible to assess, including for the Department of Education, the magnitude of the ongoing project in numerical terms.