Caminhos formativos do primeiro corpo docente da e Escola Superior de Educação Física do Pará (1950-1970)

Abstract

The Physical Education College of Pará (ESEFPA) was the first teaching institution in the state to have a Physical Education college course; however, the professors who were part of the first faculty member are not renowned in this institution history. At that, this doctoral thesis has as its general goal to reconstruct formative journeys of the first faculty members of ESEFPA, from the primary education to the admittance to the institution. The investigation was based on studies about the history of Physical Education and in the Physical Education Courses, following the ideas of Betti (1991), Cunha (2017), Melo (1996), Grunennvaldt (1997), Figueiredo (2016), Lima (2012), Lyra (2013), Nascimento (2010), Santos (1985), Silva (2017), Silva (2015), Vilela e Rocha Junior (2006), and in the teachers training of studies Tardif (2000), Moita (2000), Cavaco (1999), Azevedo (2013), Faria Junior (1972, 1987), Pires (2007, 2008) and Treptow (2008). Methodologically, a mapping of the documental sources in local and national collection was made, in which it was found newspaper articles, decrees, laws, ordinances, resolutions, iconographic sources, among others. In order to collect the data, the Oral History research method has been chosen and, as technique, the semi structured thematic interview was chosen with the participation of the protagonists’ professors that were part of the first faculty members of this institution. The temporal cut stablished was the decades 150, 1960 and 1970. As a result, interpreting the professor formative paths, we could determine that all of them Physical Education experiences in the primary school, secondary school and in the high school, experiencing gymnastics, sports and games. Some professors have mentioned that the methods used in that time were the calisthenic, the natural Austrian method and the French method. The professors’ memories brought the relevance to interact with college education and with what has been discussed lately by the Brazilian Physical Education during their trajectory in the National School of Physical Education and Sports (Escola Nacional de Educação Física and Desportos). In this meantime, the professors had the opportunity of participating in events courses that enable them to organize events, as well as to give to courses in Pará state and in other states. These four professors´ experiences, in this time, contributed to the ESEFPA creation, since their knowledge allowed the discussion and the elaboration the regiment that supported its origin. Additionally, after graduating, the professors were qualified to be part of the faculty members of a college institution, this fact also facilitated the ESEFPA creation. In this path, the pioneer professors were responsible for the entrance examination that constituted the first class of students of the Physical Education college course in the Pará state. The experiences designed during the professors´ journey allowed them to teach several subjects in the Physical Education course, so filling the gaps left by the lack of qualified professors. Besides, these subjects developed their work in other institutions by enhancing teacher training and the teaching of Physical Education in the Pará state.