Initial training in Physical Education: What do teacher educators think and do?
RIAEE – Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação, Araraquara, v. 19, n. 00, e024039, 2024. e-ISSN: 1982-5587
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21723/riaee.v19i00.18075 8
synthesize the theoretical disciplines, the techniques and practices applied to
a pedagogical process. But, as the process progressed, there was a very large
gap in its intentionality [...] Well, anyway, when it came to kindergarten,
elementary school and high school, we were already saying this: we had to put
the kids into practice, which would only make sense if this thing had practice.
It was our great difficulty because we did not have the availability of teachers
to take classes, distribute them in schools to attend to each cycle that is a
subject, how was I going to be at the same time in several groups, in several
teaching units. It didn't work. So, in reality, it would have to have an internship
character as well. To achieve that, that's our purpose and we get out of it. But
then things didn't happen. |The projects that we had thought of, especially
within my discipline, I had thought of making a link with high school in state
schools, I was not succeeding. [Teacher H, our translation].
Teacher H, like Formosinho (2009), has a focus on the professional training of teachers.
Aspects such as the moment in which the discipline appears in the curriculum, what precedes
and succeeds it, and also its interlocution with professional practice, through the internship,
emerge strongly during his speech.
Teacher H argues emphatically about how important it would be to link the institution
with the school of basic education, in the sense of favoring that the teacher in training does not
only experience an academic look (Formosinho, 2009) on his teaching knowledge base
(Shulman, 1986, 1987), but that contextualizes them with the issues faced and practiced by the
school curriculum. It goes further, as it mentions a powerful triad: discipline, internship and
school. What can be seen is a movement of relationship that would allow the student to establish
a professional experience, still in initial training, subsidized by the monitoring and supervision
of the mandatory curricular internship and, also, dialogued with the knowledge and proposals
of the discipline of the training axis for basic education that he was attending in the period.
The setback, according to H, is due to the fact that there are not enough teacher trainers
to monitor these graduates, compromising the feasibility of the proposal. In a broader context,
it can be said that Silva, Iaochite and Azzi (2010), Gariglio (2010), Ferraz and Correia (2012),
Lacerda and Costa (2012), Marcon, Graça and Nascimento (2013), Metzner (2014), in different
contexts of the national territory, note the same difficulties.
Seeking to know how each teacher perceived the discipline he taught/taught – physical
education in early childhood education, elementary or high school – in the middle of the
curriculum of the undergraduate, it was asked if the contact with the stage of basic education
only in this discipline was considered sufficient and, also, how he understood the relationship
with the other disciplines.
Teacher A, in his statement, made a point of emphasizing the importance of his
discipline – physical education in elementary school – mainly from the perspective of diversity