The Physical Education from the time of the thought to the time of the lived: an empiric/exploratory study about representations and teacher’s practice

Abstract

The present paper aimed to know the representations and the practices of Physical Education teachers, who teach in different cycles of teaching, related to the movement from the binomial ‘thought’ (the movement structured in the curriculum) and ‘lived’ (the one that is informal, not formal, of phenomenological intention). To do so, two paradigms of curriculum and practice approach were taken as reference: the ‘Physical Education thought’ – of formal curriculum; the Physical Education – here called as lived – lived by the spontaneous act of the game, the play, the experiencing, the context, the circumstance. The group (sample) of study was constituted by 10 teachers (5 of the 2ndcycle and 5 of the 3rd cycle). For data collection, we used a semi-structured interview; for data analysis, we used a qualitative/content analysis of the data. The results reveal similar and complementary views on the issue.