Valorização das identidades: a cultura corporal popular como conteúdo do currículo da Educação Física

Abstract

With the democratization of access, the school acknowledged multiples cultural identities. Historically, the knowledge from the groups which lack power was neglected in the curriculum and the dominant culture prevailed, raise as an urgency the conduction of studies which shows ways to promote changes. This action-research developed in a public school of Osasco (SP) county, located in a culturally diversified community, along with the groups of beginners from the Ensino Fundamental, sought to analyze the implementation and the process of construction of multicultural curriculum for Physical Education using the popular patrimony of the corporal culture (plays, dances and circle dances) initially cataloged. The results obtained through critical analyzes of the experience, shows that the contents of the popular culture and the methodology of teaching inspired in the ethnography promoted the strengthen of the community cultural identity.