Curriculum proposal for physical education and the education of ethnic racial relantionship: a study regarding the state schools of Santo Andre

Abstract

This paper aims to present part of the results obtained as fruit of a Master dissertation that was concerned with the implementation of the guidelines recommended by Law 10.639/03 into the Physical Education curriculum in the state's schools of city of Santo Andre. This is on the assumption that is not mandatory to immediately include African History and Culture as part of the Physical Education program, but is explicitly clear in article 26, paragraph 2, of Law 10.639/03 that the content must be part of every discipline. Thus, the curriculum proposed for the schools in Santo Andre must include African History and Culture in Physical Education classes. However, we question "how well the theme has been approached?". The results point out to a poor approach to this subject by the Physical Education teachers, absence of appropriate teaching-learning materials, inadequate teacher training to understand the depth and importance of this kind of learning, lack of strategies to organize the subject within the curriculum or by the pure resistance from certain sectors, whether in the school or in the government.

Keywords

Curriculum; physical education; afro-brazilian culture; african history and culture; law 10.639/03.