Corpo, cultura e identidade no ensino médio: uma abordagem a partir das aulas de Educação Física

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze and understand how differences are signified and represented by students that make up the universe of physical education classes in high school, be they physical, gender, skin color, manner of dress, or even cultural. It also aims to understand how their identities are constructed in relation to the body. The choice of these classes of high school, is justified by the interest aroused by the great changes of physical, psychological and subjective that students of this age are prone to spend, or are entering adolescence, encountering a diversity of moral codes, with many different groups with different beliefs with various proclamations, and consequently, many require certain identification with any group through a legitimate identity. The completion of this investigation occurred from observations made during an academic quarter, in two (2) public schools state education Dourados-MS. In the school environment, research is a qualitative, descriptive, delineated from the analysis of the speeches of ten (10) students in these classes, through semi-structured interviews, which were videotaped (audio and video), as well as the representations touched during classes, which were described by the observations. Throughout the process of structuring this research, the analysis process of the constitution or the search for an identity, realized the parallel relationship between cultural identity and body, and the second as an integral and active participant in legitimizing identity of social actors in physical education classes in high school at both schools. As proof that the contemporary identity is mutable, sometimes involuntarily, or so camouflaged, hidden, but always transformed.