Representações de estudantes de Educação Física sobre o corpo de atletas com e sem deficiênci

Abstract

This article, which is part of a research project at the end of the course, aims to investigate the representations of students entering physical education about the bodies of athletes with and without disabilities in high-performance sport. The aim was to analyze the representations of physical education students at the Federal University of Uberlândia, entering in 2023, about the bodies of athletes with and without disabilities in high-performance sport. The research followed a qualitative approach and used two images published on sports websites of the bodies of two high-performance athletes, one with and one without a disability, so that the students could define what they thought about the images with a word or expression. The data was analyzed using discourse analysis with a Foucauldian slant. The results of the research show that physical education students tend to represent the disabled athlete's body predominantly from the perspective of overcoming, using terms such as “persistence”, “determination” and “resilience” to refer to the image that portrays the athlete. Regarding the image of the typical athlete, they associated it with adjectives such as strength, technique and focus, related to the idea of performance