EDUCATING AND/OR 'PROMOTING HEALTH'? THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PEDAGOGY ACADEMICS AND MEDICINE ON PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHING COURSE/CDS/UFSC

Abstract

Why everybody thinks that the Physical Education academic goes to the University “To Play Ball”? Starting with this question, this research looked for an analysis of the Social Representations of Physical Education Teaching Course of UFSC in the vision of the academics from Pedagogy and Medicine courses of the same University. Fifteen interviews were realized, and analyzed through the continuous construction and reconstruction of the Social Representations. Inside of this conclusion we can relate the trends that cross the interviewed academics speeches. They are: 1. The EF is a related area to the health promotion; 2. It in such a way contemplates the sport in the scholar practical related to the academics of the course - athletes; 3. It is a discipline anti-stressing at school and its academics have the same stereotype  non-stressed people; 4. It understands an ample field of work. These are the most important trends of the research and that they can represent the images of the EF in the society. We distinguished that EF is still   few understand as a scholar discipline. This thematic was only related by Pedagogy academics, what shows a necessity of clarification for the society of the importance of EF as discipline at school. And, in this manner, the understanding that change the meaning representations could be constructed about the area of the Physical Education and about the UFSC course.