Conhecimento acadêmico x saberes da experiência: o que dizem professores de capoeira sobre a atuação profissional em lutas?

Abstract

The present research sought to understand the importance of initial training in Physical Education as subsidy for teachers, formed and not formed in the area, for professional performance as a capoeira fights teacher in the city of Uberlândia – MG. The assumption is to question what kind of knowledge prevails in the teaching of Capoeira: those acquired during the process of academic formation in Physical Education or the knowledge produced by the practical experience in the modality. The objectives of the proposal were to problematize the relationship between academic knowledge and knowledge of experience practice experience as a capoeira teacher and understand the importance of the initial formation in Physical Education for acting in the area of fights. The qualitative field study used questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with capoeira teachers, graduated and not graduated in Physical Education. At the end of the study it was possible to ratify that being a capoeira teacher its main premise is the presence of knowledge of the experience, with the formation in Physical Education being considered as an aggregating factor for future professional practice in the area of struggles to contribute with a didactic-methodological tool for the improvement of teaching. However, it was identified that, for the interviewees, the Physical Education courses still need curricular reformulations in the disciplines focused on the struggle. Finally, respondents highlight the importance of university extension as an aggregating factor to the process of formation of undergraduates students in Physical Education with regard to Capoeira knowledge.