Gymnastics in Brazil: absence at school x rise at gym

Authors

  • Cintia de la Rocha Freitas Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Anderson Simas Frutuoso Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8042.2016v28n47p278

Abstract

As a manifestation of physical culture and essential content of physical education courses, Gymnastics has been extinguished from lessons of Physical Education in Brazil, and has been ascending in the gyms. This study aims to reflect about Gymnastics in schools and gyms, seeking explanations for these unwanted directions taken Brazil. It is worrying the fact that Physical Education in Brazilian schools have its lessons based mainly in sports, leaving aside other issues of body culture. It is also uncomfortable the bond of fitness center with the characteristic of the current consumption society. We realize the urgency of expanding the content of gymnastics in Physical Education undergraduate courses, enabling the incorporation of knowledge necessary to develop gymnastics content, regardless its place where it is developed.

Author Biographies

Cintia de la Rocha Freitas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutora em Ciências do Movimento Humano (UFRGS);
Universidade Federal de Educação Física (UFSC);
Florianópolis (SC), Brasil;

Endereço para correspondência: Eng. Agrônomo Andrey Cristian Ferreira, s/n. Campus Universitário, Trindade CEP: 88040-900 - Florianópolis-SC – Brasil

Tel. Nº: +55 (48) 3721-4779

Anderson Simas Frutuoso, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Mestre em Educação Física (UFSC);
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC);
Florianópolis (SC), Brasil;

Published

2016-05-25

How to Cite

Freitas, C. de la R., & Frutuoso, A. S. (2016). Gymnastics in Brazil: absence at school x rise at gym. Motrivivência, 28(47), 278–289. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8042.2016v28n47p278

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