Teaching about the process of human aging in graduate courses in physical education

• Autor(a) principal: Tristão, Pâmela Andrieli da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Justo, Juliana Ludwig, Toigo, Adriana Marques
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/saude_desenvolvimento/article/view/3181
• topic: Aging; Undergraduate Education; Physical Education; Curriculum; Ciências da Saúde; Educação Física; Envelhecimento; Graduação; Educação Física; Currículo

Introduction: The National Policy for the Elderly provides the inclusion of Gerontology and Geriatrics as curricular subjects in higher education.Objective: To know how is the teaching about the human aging process in the courses of Physical Education in higher level.Method: Cross-sectional study with 7 individuals of both sexes representing the higher education institutions (HEI) that have participated of a local event called Fórum Gaúcho das Instituições de Ensino Superior com Ações Voltadas ao Envelhecimento in the year of 2016. The protocol was a questionnaire with closed and open questions.Results: Four HEI offer the subject called Physical Education and Human Aging in the curriculum of the Bachelor, but none offers this subject in the curriculum for the teaching of Physical Education at scholar level. At the other three HEI, the theme is discussed in other disciplines that includes topics related to special public. The subject was included in the curricula between the years of 2009 and 2013 and has a workload of 60 hours per semester, divided into 4 credits, being located in the curriculum between the fifth and the eight semester.Conclusion: The offer of the subject Physical Education and Human Aging is still not a consensus as mandatory in the undergraduate courses of Physical Education in the south of Brazil.