OLD AGE AND THE GENERAL GYMNASTICS: PRECEPTS OF THE CORPOREALITY IN "REDEVELOPMENT". HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS CORPOREALITY?

Abstract

This study emerged from the necessity of expanding the academic-scientific general gymnastics field, aiming at an audience different from the one we have been experiencing in the extension project of the Paulista University, Anchieta Campus, thinking about the possibility of a theoretical and educational deepening we have submitted the research to the undergraduate research committee. The project was granted and, as expected it was accomplished based on references, which provided a scientific foundation about the educational practice, reaching the proposed objectives of developing the elaboration of activities and questionnaires followed by the action-research. Respectively, participated in the project, thirty elderly above 65 years old, considering that all of them lived in the community which surrounds the institution. The integration of the project together with the institution had major importance, when regarding to both the elderly participants and the researchers who participated actively in the development of the activities and questionnaires application, which awakened the initiative in front of the unusual situations, making of the lived experience that helped in the professional practice, a worth one. We believe that the positive results obtained in the course of this research, happened through the commitment and dedication of the researchers, both oriented and advisor, who had active and effective participation in front of the activities developed during the meetings, once that the elderly were able to experience activities which are different by their own physical space and availability of didactic-educational material which the institution itself provided for the application of the body experiences.