SEXISM IN THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURAL PLURALITY AND DIFFERENTIATION OF GENDERS.

Abstract

The physical education class develops specifically the teaching of physical culture of movement. The multidisciplinary is an essential factor in this process considering that different contexts: cultural, historical, social and geographic involving students and content featuring cultural plurality. This diversity is observed in the interaction among students during class where attitudes and stereotypes of society can come to reflect in the physical education classes, such as sexism related to the differentiation of genders. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between cultural plurality and sexism related to differentiation of genders in physical education classes of the 1st and 2nd segments of elementary school according to a statement of the teacher. We performed a descriptive exploratory research through field study. The sample consisted of 10 physical education teachers of both sexes working in classes from 1st to 9th grade of basic education in municipal schools of Rio de Janeiro. We conducted a personal interview with questions relating to the themes: cultural diversity, socialization, and sexism related to the differentiation of genders. For the treatment of data was performed discourse analysis considering the qualitative data studied. The results showed that most teachers use the national curriculum parameters as reference for selecting the content, organization and conflict resolution class, predominantly mixed classes. Moreover, it was observed that in physical education classes is still sexism cases related to performance and characteristics of individual learners. Soon, it was observed that the absences of specific theoretical and sociocultural reality are factors that may trigger conflicts over sexism. Therefore, it is suggested to make further studies to correlate with the above aspects to sexism to produce new evidence that allows the physical educator to work this issue in order to produce a significant change in student education.