Basketball teaching experience from school daily problems: results of an action research

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Beatriz Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: da Silva, Crislaine Cintia, Vieira, Ana Luíza Barbosa, Lima, Ricardo Bezerra Torres
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/21325
• topic: Basquetebol; Educação; Educação física.

Background: Basketball is one of the contents that tends to be excluded from School Physical Education, even in the face of a scenario of sports hegemony. Objective: To present possibilities of teaching basketball from difficulties found in the school. The specifics objectives are: to know the previous experience of public school pupils with basketball and to try a teaching proposal of the sport through the game. Methods: This research has a qualitative nature and is characterized as an action-research. It was performed in a public school in Recife, and it had pupils of 6th and 7th year of Elementary School as subjects of the research. Results: The teaching of basketball through game provided greater interest, enthusiasm and participation of students in activities; there was a distinct participation between boys and girls; the precarious school structure interfered in the teaching of content. Conclusion: The visits in school showed the students’ knowledge of basketball is limited, often summarized to knowing famous players’ names. The teaching proposal through the game was efficient and attractive, as it brought situations of unpredictability and also approaching games that are part of students’ daily lives. This indicated that even with the difficulties in the school, it is possible to give access to this knowledge.