it was competitive, it was very competitive!: memories of performance sports in curitibas private schools (1980-1990) / era competitivo, era muito competitivo!: memórias do esporte escolar de rendimento em escolas particulares de curitiba (1980-1990)

ABSTRACT The present study investigated performance school sports practiced in private schools of Curitiba-PR, between 1980 and 1990, through interviews with coaches, athletes and sports managers who experienced the phenomenon in that period. The research is qualitative, and the investigation method used was pure Thematic Oral History. The analyses allowed observing that a good portion of Curitiba's schools back then had performance sports teams; the context of Curitiba's school sports was a sort of metaphor for professional sports; there was a hegemony of team sports; the women's sport sedimented on the interviewees' memory was gymnastics; teams were highly valued in schools; school teams participated in national and international championships; despite the performance character, there was already a difference from the sports played at clubs; some education institutions partnered with sports clubs.

RESUMO O presente estudo investigou a prática do esporte escolar de rendimento em escolas particulares de Curitiba-PR, entre os anos de 1980 e 1990, por meio de entrevistas com técnicos, atletas e gestores esportivos que vivenciaram o fenômeno no período. A pesquisa é de caráter qualitativo e o método de investigação utilizado foi a História Oral temática pura. A partir das análises percebeu-se que boa parte das escolas curitibanas da época mantinham equipes esportivas de rendimento; o contexto do esporte escolar curitibano era uma espécie de metáfora do esporte profissional; havia uma hegemonia dos esportes coletivos; o esporte feminino sedimentado na memória dos entrevistados foi a ginástica; as equipes eram muito valorizadas dentro dos colégios; os times escolares participavam de campeonatos nacionais e internacionais; apesar do caráter de rendimento, já existia diferença do esporte praticado em clubes; algumas instituições de ensino faziam parcerias com clubes esportivos.

Gabriela Mistral: Who She Was and What She Did for Education [Retrospectroscope].

Education is no doubt the foundation of any healthy society. When it is lacking or substandard in quality, all sorts of misery may arise, from poverty and disease to outright delinquency and destructive (or even self-destructive) behavior. The daily news from all around this troubled world often appalls and frightens us: such atrocious and disgraceful behavior generates a vicious cycle that serves to stir up even greater depravity. It is my contention that most, if not all, of these barbarities could be prevented if more people were provided the opportunity for a well-rounded, thoughtfully conceived education [1].

Trajetória de vida e construção dos saberes de professoras de educação física / History of life and construction of knowledges of physical education teachers

Considerando que os saberes dos professores são construídos ao longo dos diversos momentos de sua vida discente e docente, e que essa temática deveria ser mais abordada durante a formação inicial de professores, o objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a trajetória de vida de duas professoras de educação física escolar, sendo uma experiente (PE), com quase 30 anos de carreira, e uma novata (PN), com aproximadamente um ano e meio de carreira, dos ensinos fundamental e médio da rede pública da cidade de São Carlos-SP. Para tanto, a pesquisa pautou-se na abordagem qualitativa e teve como instrumento de coleta de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada. A análise dos dados conduziu à elaboração das seguintes categorias: 1) a infância e os possíveis reflexos na atuação profissional, que apresentou a escola e a relação com os pais como grandes responsáveis pela transmissão de valores do que é ser professor; 2) visão de curso/universidade, destacando o apreço sobre o período acadêmico na visão da PE e da PN; 3) dificuldades/reflexões sobre a vida docente, que revelou os obstáculos encontrados pela PN em seu início de carreira e, também, as artimanhas utilizadas pela PE ao lidar com as incertezas que envolvem a prática docente. Desta forma, ressaltamos que as trajetórias de vida dos professores, quando analisadas como uma perspectiva metodológica, podem apresentar aspectos importantes para futuros professores e também auxiliar os docentes durante as suas intervenções pedagógicas, pois o docente que relaciona e reflete a sua trajetória de vida com a sua atuação na escola pode reconstruir as suas intervenções e tornar-se um profissional melhor.

Considering that the teacher's knowledge is built throughout several moments of the teachers' lives, both as students and as teachers, and that this subject should be approached more frequently during the initial years of their teaching education, the objective of this study was to analyze the courses of life of two teachers of Physical Education: an experienced teacher (ET), with almost 30 years of teaching experience, and a novice teacher (NT), with nearly one and a half years of teaching, of elementary and secondary schools in the city of São Carlos (São Paulo). We used a qualitative approach with a semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the data led to the production of the following categories: 1) the childhood and the possible reflexes in the professional action, which presented the school and the relationship with the parents as the responsible parts for the transmission of values of what being a teacher is; 2) perspective of the course/university, eliciting the regard for the academic period in the view of both the ET and the NT; 3) difficulties/reflections about the teaching life, which revealed the obstacles found by NT in the beginning of her career, and also the knowledgeable ways adopted by ET when she dealt with the uncertainties that are involved in the teaching practice. In the view of that, we emphasize that the course of life of the teachers, when analyzed as a methodological perspective, can present important aspects for the prospect teachers, and they can also assist the teachers during their educational interventions because the teacher that associates and reflects his life course with his actions in the school can reconstruct his interventions and become a better professional.