Lazer e educação no discurso de professores de educação física do estado da Bahia: possibilidades e potencialidades da educação para o lazer

Abstract

The present dissertation discusses the subject of education for leisure and its possibilities of application in the school environment from Physical Education classes, with the general objective of analyzing and understanding the perceptions and conceptions of physical education teachers about the relationship between leisure and education and identify the potentialities and possibilities of education for and through leisure in physical education classes. This is a qualitative and exploratory analysis research, using google forms as a data collection instrument, data collection only took place virtually, with self-applicable questionnaires of objective and subjective questions. The data analysis technique employed was content analysis. The inclusion criteria for the research sample were: being a physical education teacher; the teaching network of public basic education in Bahia; teach at levels of elementary school I, II and high school. The results indicate that teachers observe that the training of physical education teachers still does not consistently address the theme of leisure, they consider that physical education classes may become a space for debate about leisure, contributing to the expansion of the range of of students' repertoire on leisure possibilities and a critical view of the phenomenon and that the little training of physical education teachers about leisure and the rigidity of formatted curricula present themselves as barriers to education for leisure in schools.