Esportes de aventura e suas possibilidades de aplicação nas aulas de educação física: um recorte dos estudos no Brasil

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze Adventure Sports in the school environment, as well as its contents, possibilities of qualitative applicability in the classes, besides the problems related to the theme. A bibliographic research was carried out, in which the results were obtained by searching the database of Scielo and Capes by means of combinations of the key words: "Adventure Sports", "Extreme Sports" and "Physical Education". The nomenclature of this body practice varies widely in relation to the authors due to the fact that it is a relatively new theme. Therefore, it is the target of social prejudices in relation to the practitioners. Most Physical Education training institutions do not address the issue, causing professionals to feel insecure about working these contents in school. It was concluded with this research that the Sports of Adventure have a relevant contribution of contents. Being that the difficulties or insecurities referred to the applicability of this modality are due to the fact of the lack of professional formation for the same one. However, Adventure Sports can be worked on Physical Education classes, since they are contents proposed by the National Curricular Common Base, aiming at a common systematics to school education, and it is up to the teacher to overcome the difficulties of approaching these contents. Emphasizing the role of higher education institutions in addressing this issue in vocational training in Physical Education.