NATIONAL CURRICULUM PARAMETERS: NEW PARADIGM FOR TEACHER FORMATION AND THE TEACHING PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION?

Abstract

This work discusses possible historical ruptures on the purposes of physical education as school discipline throughout brazilian basic education policy. Our study is focused on the analysis of National Curriculum Parameters in 1990's. Our objective was to point out new paradigms present in curriculum policies that could also cause disruptions in teacher formation and in teaching practices of physical education. Our focus is based specifically on the document analysis of National Curriculum Parameters and its guidelines for the teaching of physical education, citing this discussion the idea of the existence, or not, of theoretical and methodological changes and/or curriculum proposals for teaching practices of this area.