School physical education in distance education: An integrative review in the COVID-19 pandemic context

Abstract

Pedagogical practice in School Physical Education, surprised by the pandemic, was forced to adapt and learn how to behave in the new educational scenario. The objective of this work was to (re)know the didactic transposition of Physical Education teachers in relation to the use of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTs) for teaching, in the period of the COVID19 pandemic. To this end, we developed a qualitative study, of an exploratory nature, with a methodological focus on the integrative review of the state of the art about School Physical Education in a virtual/remote context. The search for scientific productions focused on the Scopus (Elsevier) and Web of Science databases. We identified and selected 16 articles that revealed subcategories of fundamental analyzes for advancing the understanding of didactic reality in the pandemic context. We conclude that progress is needed in the volume of studies on virtual/remote reality on School Physical Education; that teaching in virtual/remote reality is a multifaceted phenomenon, with multiple scopes, not only as a subcategory of Education, but as a new formative phenomenon walking a pari passu with itself, due to its particularities; and that this new reality confuses, causes fears, and at the same time excites for its dynamics.