Handebol na escola: uma análise do conhecimento de estudantes do ensino médio

Abstract

The Handball is a collective sport that according to the literature, is among the three sports most practiced in Brazil. Created by German professor Karl Schelenz, he had several changes of its form of dispute to the present day. This descriptive study with non probabilistic design aimed to analyze the level of knowledge of sports content Handball, taught in Physical Education, through a questionnaire containing 10 evaluative questions about the rules, tactical systems, updates and history. The study included 283 high school students from public schools in the cities of the Mundo Novo and Dourados in Mato Grosso do Sul. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics, using the t test, adopting p <0 05. The results indicated that only 44.2% know that the number of athletes who make up the team; 87.3% know how many steps features a walk; 29.3% do not know what the shooting distance of 7 meters; and 36.7% do not know that the withdrawal is not a foundation of Handball. It is considered that knowledge of the participants surveyed in this study is unsatisfactory, since these students are completing the student life cycle.