DANCE AND TRAVERSE THEMES

Abstract

Introduction: In search of democratization and importance of the National Education, it has emerged, in 1997, the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN). The suggestions of it highlighted the teaching activities with traverse themes. Developing them outlining relations with several disciplines has been a challenge for many educators, besides for the teachers of Physical Education. Objective: This research seeks to show reflections and didactic methodological suggestions for the approach between dance and traverse themes, discussing its educational possibilities at school and considering Marques' study (2003) as main theoretical reference. Methodology: The studied group was composed by 28 teachers of Physical Education from the municipal net of teaching of Juiz de Fora. As instrument of that research, of qualitative character, we applied them a semi-structured questionnaire, concerning on its school activities, with a question turning about the difficulty or easiness in working the traverse themes through dance. Result: Upon analyzing it we could notice that most of the teachers (71%) presented difficulties in drawing relations between dance and traverse themes. Conclusion: In spite of those teachers to talk about difficulties in establishing connections between theory and practice, it was noticed that it is possible to draw relations between Dance and Traverse Themes. Valorizing the corporal language at school can contribute to the revaluation of the body in society.